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Meanwhile every person I see around me:

So... yeah, confirmed, it reportedly really is fine indeed! Downright dandy even! 🤪

Oh wow this gets better and better. Someone on HB specifically made the decision to allow all PS content to show to HB users, either not knowing or else knowing that by replying their answers would be shot into the void. Or I guess this is where the idea comes from that it is not even that simple - the PS OP would not see any reply, but accounts on other instances that federate both will. Like a special club of shadowbanned users that can all see one another's comments, but nobody else can!?😜

Lemmy does not have a hidden list of "instances" that are blocked (well, I dunno, but if there is then I am saying that I do not know of it!), but it does give instance admins the ability to block particular communities on certain instances, without acknowledgement of that fact showing up in the instance block list (which makes sense, bc it is not technically the instance that is being blocked, only the communities on them). I know of no way to view this information directly, but I do recall that the capability was announced in the public release notes, which helped explain why at the I was not seeing those communities despite the instance still technically being "federated" (e.g. Chapotraphouse from StarTrek.Website, although since that time I am thinking of STW has fully defederated from all of HB).

Thank you for sharing.:-)

So in other words, the Fediverse is nowhere even close to being "just like email"? 🤪

Imagine if Windows users could not send or receive emails with Mac, Linux, Android etc. users...

While on the other hand, not everyone signs up to receive all content straight from 4chan just simply by virtue of being on the internet.

It is even more complex than that: I do not see PieFed.social in Hexbear's blocked instances list (click Blocked tab to see it on that page), so if it is true that HB has blocked PS, then it must be on the "hidden list" that Lemmy instances sometimes use to block communities or instances that they don't like, but which for whatever reason they prefer for that fact to not be as publicly visible (it also allows finer-grain resolution to block only certain specific communities such as Chapotraphouse without having to block an entire instance).

I am not sure if PS has an exact equivalent of such a hidden list, but even more than that, PS blocking HB is reputably done baked right into the codebase, at least turned on by default unless an instance admin specifically removes it.

But anyway no, if HB has blocked PS, then HB users will never see any content from PS anywhere, under any condition. Visiting some other instance, either as a guest with no account or as a registered user with an alt account, would allow this, but at that point the user would not be a "Hexbear user", in that specific mode of interaction.

You mean... Hexbear voluntarily chose to partially shadowban literally all of its users?

This is priceless.

I just tested, and on PieFed.social, using the webpage UI via Firefox on Android, I do not see comments from accounts that I have blocked.

I sometimes get Notifications from users on an entire instance that I have blocked, and then clicking on those links does not work for me, but even those I "cannot see" the comment.

If we ignore the oddness with the Notifications, then blocking seems to always work for me?

Can you give more details? I know that blocking won't stop someone from being able to trigger a Notification event, but I think it will work to stop content from the blocked account from showing up in your Feeds. Things with PieFed are still very new, and in particular there's a lot broken with regard to Notifications (also: if someone deletes their content then still the Notification remains, with a broken link pointing to something that you'll never be able to view; and there's a whole bunch of little features that break that link from actually going to where it is supposed to, like the Continue thread feature, and the new separate loading of comments in posts that have a lot of them, plus auto-hidden or auto-removed comments won't follow the link straight to and expand them either).

And now the real answer: whoever would want to be part of a club with such low standards as to willingly accept ourselves as members? 😜

Is it more mammalian perhaps?

Well I don't know about that, but I will try to appreciate them all the same 😊

I tried to forget, I really tried, but once again I see that I cannot escape my fate. 🤪

FAAFO