That it's unreasonable to expect users to mitigate this by hunting around others' profiles for snippets of conversation is my opinion, yes. That one user blocking another user makes chunks of the conversation disappear…
Having to visit the Replies page of user C and try to piece together snippets of conversation - some of which are still unviewable - is not a reasonable solution. In particular, posts 7 and 8 are not there and the link…
No, this is not wrong. I will demonstrate. Here is a sample conversation between three users A, B, and C: https://i.ibb.co/CJkZWBG/image.png No-one has blocked anyone at this point, so the conversation is visible to all…
The omission of blocked posts is done server-side by the app.bsky.feed.getPostThread endpoint, so you'd need to reimplement that to return the content of blocked posts instead, both upthread (parent) and downthread…
Should people who disagree with your opinions be able to stop others from reading your opinions? As that's what the Bluesky block feature does. You might be responding to a spreader of disinformation with facts, but if…
It is not false. > it hides all posts bob made in response to alice posts Exactly, it hides these from anyone else who might read the thread, including others participating in the thread. This offers Alice not just the…
You have misunderstood. The way Bluesky blocking works is not just about controlling who else can interact with your posts, it affects the posts of others too, and applies to every other user whether they like it or…
Agreed. Bluesky is useless for this reason and the way that blocking works individually as well. Imagine if HN had a "block" option you could select against a user, that when you click it, it wipes out every comment…
That it's unreasonable to expect users to mitigate this by hunting around others' profiles for snippets of conversation is my opinion, yes. That one user blocking another user makes chunks of the conversation disappear…
Having to visit the Replies page of user C and try to piece together snippets of conversation - some of which are still unviewable - is not a reasonable solution. In particular, posts 7 and 8 are not there and the link…
No, this is not wrong. I will demonstrate. Here is a sample conversation between three users A, B, and C: https://i.ibb.co/CJkZWBG/image.png No-one has blocked anyone at this point, so the conversation is visible to all…
The omission of blocked posts is done server-side by the app.bsky.feed.getPostThread endpoint, so you'd need to reimplement that to return the content of blocked posts instead, both upthread (parent) and downthread…
Should people who disagree with your opinions be able to stop others from reading your opinions? As that's what the Bluesky block feature does. You might be responding to a spreader of disinformation with facts, but if…
It is not false. > it hides all posts bob made in response to alice posts Exactly, it hides these from anyone else who might read the thread, including others participating in the thread. This offers Alice not just the…
You have misunderstood. The way Bluesky blocking works is not just about controlling who else can interact with your posts, it affects the posts of others too, and applies to every other user whether they like it or…
Agreed. Bluesky is useless for this reason and the way that blocking works individually as well. Imagine if HN had a "block" option you could select against a user, that when you click it, it wipes out every comment…