It truly takes the cheapest tricks to convince the twitter nigger cattle they have any resemblance of privacy on a basic pub/sub network. Next thing you'll hear is them thinking that deletes or scopes do anything as well.
Actually, scratch that. Even on twitter you could open a private window and see the posts of anyone who's blocked you. It's always been but a minor inconvenience.
@mint >deletes The amount of fucking people that lose their mind when I tell them I run clients that ignore delete events, or just... Log locally. Like what the fuck are these fucking normies doing in these niche spaces, how did they get that far and not understand this most basic truth: The internet never forgets!
@mint@ryona.agency There's also the issue where blocked people can sometimes still see and reply to posts of the person that blocked themUh, yes. That's how it should work. You shouldn't be allowed to dictate behavior to another user, especially another user on a remote instance. If you want to block a user outright and never see/hear from them again, that's good for you---but, that should not prevent that user from accessing or engaging with content.
@teknomunk@mint We leave for a place we've once called our home Until this our fortress, away had been blown By forces that banished us to the unknown Still we are the strange outsiders, but we're not alone
My boy @PurpCat wrote how majority of Bluesky's supposed security features are implemented client-side and thus could be easily circumvented have anyone actually gave enough fucks about their leprosorium of an SNS. https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2023/10/23/bluesky-the-new-containment-site Well, it won't hurt to remind that our favorite vegan does the exact same thing to Soapbox. Posts of users that block you are hidden from threads and their profiles. Try to go to random instance running it and click on "posts & replies", with 99% chance you'd get redirected to a login page with no apparent reason other than cargo cult. The fact it's toggleable doesn't change anything as no one bothers changing that.
@mint I should add on privacy through obscurity with bsky.
So basically as long as you're not a wigger and don't get your account banned too easily you can make new accounts very easily. See; Bsky just hands out invites like halloween candy now. And this guy (who had waged gayops against me in the past, lurks Telegram groups of people he hates, was involved with Hotwheels during his betrayal arc) was blocking me. So I wondered what he was saying about me online or if he was too much of a coward to (I found out his job quit paying him, so much for college LOL).
All I had to do was make a new account with a generic username, no PFP, and never post anything. Now not only did I bypass the block, but as I found out I was getting double invites (like double XP in CoD). Now I have at least 7 invites now I can hand out.
But it doesn't matter. For being open and decentralized, it is one of the most jannied up websites online and I hate everything it represents, I hate the userbase there, and I hope it continues to slowly burn.