@Texan_Reverend Curious of a hypothetical @beej and I are discussing!
If I’m following a hashtag, and you—as the admin—have blocked a server, would I still see posts in my timeline that match my hashtag, even from a blocked server?
@Graham_LRR @beej If a server or user is suspended/blocked by your admin at the server level, you will never see anything from them, regardless of the avenue: posts, boosts, hashtag posts, replies, searching their profile, etc. Because it's a complete shutoff of all visibility, I employ it only when clearly necessary.
If you needed to check a blocked account for some reason, you could still open it via their home server's site in a web browser.
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@Texan_Reverend @Graham_LRR When you say “block”, is that the same as “defederate”?
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@beej @Graham_LRR Yes. I use "block", because it immediately makes sense to most people. I similarly use "server" instead of "instance" for much the same reason, reducing friction via commonly understood phrases. "Suspend" is the term the Mastodon software backend uses for both servers and users. "Defederate" is the common parlance for it when discussing server blocks.