uhh I feel this in my bones. I just send them to various different servers now, they can learn about federation some other day if they stick around.

Bluesky/twitter/etc are person centric - you follow the person

Lemmy/reddit/etc are topic centric - you follow a community

It makes sense for blocking on Bluesky to completely hide you, you’ve severed the person - person relationship.

On Lemmy severing a person - person relationship shouldn’t disadvantage the user from interacting with the community. Communities don’t want duplicate posts so if you post some big news in a popular community now all the users you’ve blocked would be cut off from that content. Their personal beef with you shouldn’t disadvantage them in the communities this way.

It’s important to note how we got here. In old English man just meant human. Wereman meant male and wifman meant female. Over time that “were” prefix got dropped and man now means male but the ambiguous meaning of humankind stuck around. In fact “human” comes from old french “of man”, again the non-gendered use of the word man.

The point is to fix all these problems we just have to bring back the “were”. The progressive werewolves are way ahead of us on this issue.