I noticed an odd behavior today and it has me wondering how things work. So far I’ve exclusively used wefwef for 100% of my Lemmy experience. I can click on my profile and it shows all my comments. As expected.
Last night, I saw that Memmy had been released, and I wanted to check it out, so downloaded it and was poking around, and while I was using it I saw I had a notification that someone had replied to an earlier comment of mine I had made (from wefwef) so I ended up hitting reply and posting a comment from Memmy.
Now that I’m back on wefwef, when I click on my profile, I don’t see the reply I made using Memmy. I can click on my inbox, see the reply that someone else made to me, click on that to pull up all the comments, and I see the reply I made in response in the comment section. I can even click on the profile of the person that made it (me) and it pulls up my profile with all the other comments I’ve made, but not the one that I made from Memmy.
This is…weird. And not expected. It’s not a super big deal, and I’m mainly just posting out of curiosity for wanting to know how things work. I’m sure it has something to do with the Fediverse or instances or whatnot and might even be something that is out of control, but I thought it was weird that from within wefwef, I can see the comment I made and it’s even associated with me, but it doesn’t show up in the comments section of my profile. Is this a bug, or expected behavior?
Ok, nevermind, I think I figured out what’s going on. And discovered another strange issue that may or may not need looking into if possible. Turns out, the comment I made was in a shitpost community that I used Memmy to block. So now it doesn’t just block the posts from that community from being shown in my all feed, it actually blocks any comments, and posts that were made in that community from being shown to me across all of wefwef. This…isn’t really what I expected the block feature to do. I’m not sure that I love that, but I guess it’s fine. I know when you blocked a subreddit on Apollo it only stopped posts from that sub from showing up in your feed, but you could still see comments when you clicked on people’s profiles. I would prefer that to be how this works, but I guess since I didn’t even block the community using wefwef, this is just a limitation of how blocking on Lemmy works as a whole? Interesting.
Without looking at the code for lemmy right now, it sounds like that's how the instances themselves handle blocking
I assume so too, it works the same way in Memmy.
Which, imo, is a big mistake. When I click on someone’s profile, especially mine, I want to see all the comments they’ve made, no matter if it’s in a blocked community or not.
Perhaps there should be a feature request on lemmy to have a "filter" list option, where these communities are filtered from all/local feeds, but remain unblocked.