@matrix did you modify your bot to show blocks going outbound from your instance
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@wowaname It did that from the start

@matrix i didnt opt into this behaviour

@wowaname Sorry, but that's too much work

@wowaname Also wold kinda remove the purpose

@matrix blocks were never part of the AP standard. don't advertise blocks originating from your instance and it won't be an issue

i DID NOT opt in to ANY bots sending me messages out of the blue

@matrix it doesnt "remove the purpose" if you fix your bot so that it doesnt spam remote users

@matrix i think *you* miss the entire purpose of why @nik even made the mrf for pleroma in the first place. it was to *discourage* block advertisements, not to add to the noise

@wowaname Yeah, I think I did tbh, because I thought the mrf contacted both sides

@matrix yeah no problem if you legitimately misunderstood. the mrf @nik wrote only checks blocks destined toward a "local" account: therefore it only notifies local users about other people blocking them. it was just to show mastodon users why federated blocks were a privacy risk. people like @sjw @crunklord420 and @p only adopted it because the people on their instances had fun seeing who blocked them

if people want to sign up on GLC and receive automated DMs from your instance, thats fine, but i personally dont care who blocks me and i want to avoid meta-drama as best as possible. i'm sure plenty of other people share my sentiment and treat it as spam

@matrix @crunklord420 @nik @p @sjw and if you absolutely want to advertise blocks originating from your instance (despite the spec) you can federate the Block and Undo activities, so that remote instances can handle these as they wish. overloading the DM functionality is a hack on top of a hack. people who want to be notified of blocks are already doing so by using the MRF on their servers, and people who dont can safely ignore the Block activities

@wowaname @p @crunklord420 @nik @sjw@neckbeard.xyz Tbh if you look at the source, it's a script kiddie hack.
It's supposed to chain the DMs into a thread and that work only like half the time.