why are people from mastodon dot social able to favorite my posts if i've blocked the entire domain? did i do something incorrectly?
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I looked it up it says a block does this
Block a domain to:
hide all public posts from it
hide all notifications from it
remove all followers from it
prevent following new users from it (but does not remove existing follows)
so I guess it doesn't stop them from seeing your stuff? its odd design
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/domain_blocks/#block
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@Okesska @Doephin I'm not sure of the exact details, and could be wrong, but I believe a domain block from a user would still show all the old posts to the blocked server that it was aware of up until the block. I saw this behavior from someone who blocked another instance I'm on. Was still able to see all their public posts up until the block.
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@BlurTheFur @Okesska the doc I posted is a little out of date as the feature does remove existing follows now too. But could also be a caching thing, yeah
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@BlurTheFur @Doephin thanks. couldnt find my post so i cant remember if i did it before or after the block im im pretty sure it was after which is why i was confused
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@BlurTheFur @Okesska @Doephin Domain blocks work more like individual mutes. It's implemented this way because public posts do not require an endpoint to authenticate transactions to receive broadcasted public posts. Refusing to broadcast public posts to a domain it has blocked would break federation, and would be trivial to bypass by malicious instances anyways. However, domain blocks do refuse all incoming broadcasts from blocked domains. So it's like a one-way thing
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@vivi and what about blocked users specifically? the same applies? would someone blocked still be able to see posts i made before blocking them?
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@Okesska Blocking individual users makes your account to appear not to exist to that person - if they follow a direct link to your profile or posts it will show an error, you won't appear in their searches, etc. It is also easily bypassable just by logging out for public posts but... yeah if you want someone not to see your stuff you basically have to go followers-only with follower requests enabled, and not accept their request.
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@vivi i would say thats not a great system but you can circumvent blocks on twitter in the exact same way, so
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@vivi thanks for clarifying
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@Okesska Well, there's no technical way to implement it, realistically. A public post is impossible to be seen by "everyone except XYZ" because including "everyone" means necessarily including XYZ in the scope of "everyone" if they are logged out or on an alt, so any attempt to filter it is futile, unfortunately. It's why twitter "does" that too, because it's frankly impossible not to. So going whitelist-only is the only way to be sure. 
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@Doephin @BlurTheFur sorry to bother but do u know if this is true?