Not that I’m aware.

But there are web UIs you can run that allow you to run a lemmy instance more like a forum, and that could of course be federated with other fediverse instances, including other forum instances.

But not existing forum systems. That’s something they have to implement, not lemmy.

Behind the scenes Lemmy speaks a protocol called ActivityPub. It can’t just talk to any other similar arbitrary service if it doesn’t also support the protocol.

Edit: Apparently the forum systems you mention do/will indeed support ActivityPub. There would certainly be potential for interpretability with the threadiverse, then.

That’s an even bigger “no” from me.

Why would it be retroactive?

If so, then sounds okay, as long as the person knows they have been blocked, would suck to write a well written comment in reply to someone who blocked you, and unknowingly your comment is hidden for everyone because you don’t realize you were blocked.

That’s exactly what should happen. If someone can just instantly know when they get blocked, nothing stops them from instantly signing up with alt account to continue bitching at someone.

This is less of an issue with centralized social media, but with federation you absolutely should take measures like this to curb at least some portion of targeted harassment.

And if you bothered someone enough for them to block you, not being allowed to stand on their soapbox anymore (not being able to make comments on their posts visible to everyone else) is a really weird thing to worry about.

I don’t think anyone who lives in the US would be dumb enough to think they can find sidewalks along anywhere they might want to go without a car.

I know.

But when did I suggest past activity should be affected, which is what you replied about?

Found a youtube channel

Not so sure. A road surface tends to be rougher pavement than sidewalks or skate parks. I’d imagine the side of a highway chewing those parkboard wheels away at record rates.

I’m honestly kinda shocked anyone attempting this wouldn’t use a longboard with some chonkier wheels.

Ok, but how would blocks removing comments from your posts for everyone, including the blocked user, be any different? That could be abused in the exact same way.

If you’re saying blocks should only prevent future comments, this could by all means also work the same way.

The point is that it should work like a shadow ban, and not be obvious to the person you blocked. That discourages them from immediately coming at you with an alt.

Oh, I agree.

Its utility isn’t meant to make you appear as if you don’t exist, but rather eliminate the ability of the blocked account to disturb your experience in any way.

If you block someone, but they can still leave a bunch of nasty comments on every one of your posts which are still visible to everyone else, then that goal hasn’t really been achieved.

Indeed. In those cases community mods can step in and issue bans, but that is a stopgap.

It would be better to have some way to block a given user from interacting with your content, if not prevent them from seeing it.

There is value to the blocked person not being able to find out in any way, whether you’ve blocked them.

And if they really want to see your content, on federated social media, where you can’t enforce a login requirement to view the content, they’ll always be able to find your content if they really want to.

Stopping them from being able to comment on your posts would be nice, tho. Even better if they can comment, but it doesn’t show up for you or anyone else.

Implementing such a block would be tricky, though. It is not as simple as community bans, as communities are always governed by their home instance.

If you post or comment in a community that isn’t local, someone from a third instance could interact with that content without ever communicating with your home instance.

It can still be done, but it’s a much more involved implementation than community bans.

Wasn’t there someone who bought youtube ads and had the ad be a rick roll?

I was saved by the cookie approval pop-up tho.

Yes, but they can still see your content and interact with it.

Blocking on lemmy is more like muting. It removes the user for you, but doesn’t remove you for them.

My retort for “life isn’t fair” is a lot shorter.

It is: “I know, doesn’t mean you can’t be”.

So often it’s used to excuse you getting screwed by someone. The universe may not be fair, but more often than not, when facing unfair bullshit, there’s a person/people you can actually slap behind it.

No.

FromSoft has been doing great, I see no reason they would need to sell, and Sony will just shutter them the instant they make a game that misses their arbitrary mark.

People who played the Gravity Rush games loved them, but since they didn’t do numbers, Studio Japan still got shut down. Same for WipEout and Studio Liverpool.

Sony would not have gone for the risk of bringing back Armored Core, for example. They shutter niche studios, and FromSoft makes niche games.

It’s just that they’ve gotten so good at them, they aren’t niche anymore. Sony would have thrown that baby out with the bathwater.

If the souls-like goes out of fashion, the way mecha games went out of fashion, FromSoft would just keep on trucking making good games…

But under Sony, they’d just get killed.

Ah.

I just figured out why I’ll never find true love, then.

I ain’t doing that for anyone.

Except my cat.

A motto of mine is “The universe doesn’t care, so we have to”.

Love seeing other versions of the same idea held by others.

When you start to have to worry about them finding out you’ve out-pizzad the hut.