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What is the difference between blocking and muting user/community/instance? (reddthat.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Muting is a Boost feature. It won't show posts from those communities in your feed

Blocking is a Lemmy feature. You won't see blocked communities or posts from those communities.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So generally, they have the same goals, but blocking is server-side and muting is client-side.

What difference will there be if I, for example, mute lemmy.ml and block lemmy.ml?

I suppose when muted, posts from lemmy.ml would not appear in my feed. Same thing when blocked. The only difference will be the visibility of lemmy.ml itself, its posts, and communities. If muted, I could still access them, and when blocked, they would not exist for me. Am I right?

What about comments and private messages? From my experience, when muted, they are still visible , but when blocked, what happens?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I suppose when muted, posts from lemmy.ml would not appear in my feed. Same thing when blocked. The only difference will be the visibility of lemmy.ml itself, its posts, and communities. If muted, I could still access them, and when blocked, they would not exist for me. Am I right?

Yes!

What about comments and private messages? From my experience, when muted, they are still visible , but when blocked, what happens?

I can only explain the behavior of muting because is the one I developed for Boost. Muting only affects posts in a feed. If you mute an user, you won't see posts from that user in your feed. It doesn't affect comments or messages.