If you block a domain on Mastodon, does that also block even people you follow? Not at the admin level (i.e. fediblock) but rather the user level.

On Bluesky I saw people trying to push its users onto fedi saying to use domain blocks as a solution to the Reply Guy problem that plagues this network, and AFAIK, the user-level domain block is nuclear and Mastodon makes that clear, so I literally cannot do that for some of the instances these lot frequent. (also, good fucking luck blocking mastodon.social lmao)

I think those lot just want people off of the platform they hate while dismissing every concern about the platform they love.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

@Flaky yep...sounds like people trying to sabotage for some reason. Domain level blocks will definitely block people you follow.

@BeAware Knew it. I follow people I want to follow on instances known for a Reply Guy reputation and well, if I blocked the flagship instance I also block my friends. This instance already had to limit it at times which probably explains some of the federation issues I've had lol.

I don't think it's sabotaging or anything towards fedi, just people who just really hate Bluesky, but don't (want to) understand why people there don't want to use fedi. (In this case, hostile behaviour from the most evangelist here has been a barrier I've seen come up and even personally experienced.)

@Flaky ‍️you won't hear anything good about Bluesky from me. To each their own though. I'd rather block 100,000 individual users than go back to corporate social media.

@BeAware Meanwhile the past two years on fedi has felt like death by a thousand cuts, which hasn't really been the case for me personally on Bluesky.

@Flaky don't know what you're talking about.‍️