@matrix did you modify your bot to show blocks going outbound from your instance
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@wowaname It did that from the start

@matrix i didnt opt into this behaviour

@wowaname Sorry, but that's too much work

@wowaname Also wold kinda remove the purpose

@matrix blocks were never part of the AP standard. don't advertise blocks originating from your instance and it won't be an issue

i DID NOT opt in to ANY bots sending me messages out of the blue

@matrix it doesnt "remove the purpose" if you fix your bot so that it doesnt spam remote users

@matrix i think *you* miss the entire purpose of why @nik even made the mrf for pleroma in the first place. it was to *discourage* block advertisements, not to add to the noise

@wowaname Yeah, I think I did tbh, because I thought the mrf contacted both sides

@matrix yeah no problem if you legitimately misunderstood. the mrf @nik wrote only checks blocks destined toward a "local" account: therefore it only notifies local users about other people blocking them. it was just to show mastodon users why federated blocks were a privacy risk. people like @sjw @crunklord420 and @p only adopted it because the people on their instances had fun seeing who blocked them

if people want to sign up on GLC and receive automated DMs from your instance, thats fine, but i personally dont care who blocks me and i want to avoid meta-drama as best as possible. i'm sure plenty of other people share my sentiment and treat it as spam

@wowaname @matrix @crunklord420 @nik @sjw

> to show mastodon users why federated blocks were a privacy risk

I don't think this is a privacy issue for the person doing the blocking. What exactly is leaked? "This person doesn't wanna hear from you and does not want you to follow them any more, and the system has duly enforced this." I've never heard a real use-case. (If anyone's got one, I'm all ears, but the ones I have imagined are unconvincing.)

It *is* an issue for the person that has *been* blocked. Here is metadata about your account: two servers know it (and thus by extension, at least two admins plus anyone that gets unauthorized access to a server or a backup system that contains the DB dump), but you do not. Seriously, on what grounds should a user *not* be entitled to their own data?

> people on their instances had fun seeing who blocked them

Some people have fun with it, I personally think it's weird and passive-aggressive to not know who has blocked you, and I sure as hell don't want to waste time typing up a message at someone that won't see it and doesn't want to see it anyway. My use-case is that I don't want to waste time on that, since I'd rather talk to people that want to talk to me.

So we added it due to popular demand, but the more I think about it, the less sense it makes to hide this from the person that it targets.

@p @wowaname @crunklord420 @matrix @nik @sjw I think the people who think they should be able to keep it a secret who they blocked are cowardly and deserve contempt.

@leyonhjelm @p @crunklord420 @matrix @nik @sjw @wowaname
Im not sure why anyone would gaf one way or the other.
> get blocked, miss out on awesome posts! lol

@Secftblgirl @leyonhjelm @crunklord420 @matrix @nik @sjw @wowaname The mass-blockers are missing the best damn posts on fedi. They always block the best posters.
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@p @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @matrix @nik @sjw @wowaname I know, divine asses is really missing out

@leyonhjelm @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @matrix @nik @sjw @wowaname

> divine asses is really missing out

Divine Asses wouldn't know a divine ass if one bit him in the ass.

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@sjw @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @leyonhjelm @matrix @nik @wowaname I never watched Nerduto, can you please redo this meme but use The Major so that I will get the joke?

@p @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @leyonhjelm @matrix @nik @wowaname I've only seen a few episodes. Not my kind of animu.

@sjw @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @leyonhjelm @matrix @nik @wowaname Ah, yes. Despite the presence of lolis in GitS, there are few of them and there are no close-ups of their buttholes.

@p @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @leyonhjelm @matrix @nik @wowaname Any fanservice?

@sjw @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @leyonhjelm @matrix @nik @wowaname In GitS? I guess less than Gunsmith Cats, more than Cowboy Bebop.

@p @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @leyonhjelm @matrix @nik @wowaname I might give it a shot then

@sjw @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @leyonhjelm @matrix @nik @wowaname In the first episode of SaC, a bunch of businessmen and dignitaries have hired robot geisha hookers for a degeneracy party, they got drunk and pulled their brains out of the robot bodies and switched bodies with the hookers. But terrorists hacked the hookers and took the old dudes hostage. I don't know how anyone sees this and says it's not their kind of thing, it is everyone's kind of thing.

@p @Secftblgirl @crunklord420 @leyonhjelm @matrix @nik @wowaname Yeah but how much lesbian loli kissing is there?
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