In the past week I’ve been absolutely roasted for criticising two different countries. Normally I’d be okay with that, I can handle a mild toasting and after all debate is a good thing.
On both occasions though I was flamed for mentioning human rights issues that are established facts and have been known for many, many years. I was critical of the actions/laws of their governments and not the people, their race, religion, general political ideology or nationality.
On both occasions I was bombarded by long posts that parroted propaganda, and in the case of one country I was told (on multiple occasions) that I was ignorant, racist and even fascist for mentioning the issues I did. I’m not complaining about how I was treated, but as a reminder, I was discussing internationally-recognised human rights concerns that can be verified and based in fact.
I could just be paranoid but I’m fairly convinced the responses weren’t from patriotic citizens. I think they were paid trolls or bots, and I think their purpose was to quiet negative talking points about the countries that were mentioned.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Boy do I enjoy piefed’s bidirectional blocking feature: I don’t see their comments, and they don’t see mine. We both live in pease (unless they are bots/trolls, then they live in pain muohaha)
wait wait wait wait. is this a thing. do I need to set anything. I 100% always wanted this.
I think bidirectional blocking is default on pifed, you just need to put whichever user/instance in your block list.
hey @rimu@piefed.social is this right because if so thanks.
Yes although when you post in a remote community the remote instance will send your content wherever. They don’t know who you’ve blocked.
That’s one of the reasons I post in local communities more, these days.
can’t complain. Ill take half a loaf as its one of my most wanted features.
I guarantee user blocking is not bi-directional outside of piefed
does this extend to posts? I’m on Interstellar and I see posts from .ml users even though I have .ml blocked. So either this is working as intended or a quirk of the Interstellar client?
I am not sure if that is intended.
On https://join.piefed.social/roadmap/ it states:
and on https://join.piefed.social/features/ :
Although the exact specification is not given. I personally have not recall seeing ml post, but maybe I didn’t care enough to look.
Ah, I just found a bug here - the instance blocking wasn’t checking the instance of the author, only the instance of the community. It checks both now.
Thanks for bringing this up!
I’m happy to help! thanks for fixing it quickly. :)
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