cut off in what sense? As far as I know you should be able to still see replies you just wont get notified about replies if the reply is from a user on a silenced server.
There is a solution in the works (I suggested it upstream) to better handle muting in a way that users could override it at a server level. I need to check in to see how thats coming along.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins My main dissatisfaction with it is that I can (1) follow a user on such a site, (2) click on a post of his, and even after these two active, affirmative-consent things I have done, any reply-threads are cut off once another user I haven't followed comments (i.e. that comment and any children are suppressed). A QOTO user really can't be part of the conversation with even a silence in effect.
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you have to keep in mind our only rule is users of a server must respect the "right to disengage". We have that federation rule for reasons that go well beyond anything to do with administrators or mods (that only played a role in this particularly instance).
Its mostly a rule about ban evasion. If someone blocks you or exits a conversation then there is an expectation a user from another server wont try to evade that block.
If this were simply a single user harassing me I likely would have just muted that user until it was over. but this was orchastrated across dozens of users with an attempt to evade the mute I put in place and insert themselves into my notifications after I asked to be left alone.
If this had happened to a user rather than a moderator the consequence would have been the same, defederation if the server admins didnt intervene.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but would there be an obstacle to personally muting the server while leaving it unblocked on the account listed as site admin? Seems to be the best of both worlds - you get to ignore instances as you please, but you can still see the full context if someone reports me in a thread involving users from those instances.
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I've moved over to @realcaseyrollins for my private account
This is literally just here to archive my old posts now