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And where would that be? Can you quote the paragraph you're talking about?

the nazis are siding with the jews!

Where does it say that?

Domain blocking isn't instance blocking. It's for if you don't want to see posts that link to, for example, imgur.com. It's also broken and will just hide random posts from you.

You're posting to /c/foss, not /c/freeofchargeandthecodeisavailableforinspection.

You're mixing up cranks and bigots. Bigots tend to get banned because they're harmful. Cranks tend to exclude themselves on principle.

The term "crank" is usually used as a pejorative, but cranks can sometimes be beneficial. Richard Stallman is the prototypical example of a Free Software crank. Definitely annoying, but also definitely a net benefit to all of us.

H E L T H

That'd be covered by #4:

The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.

There is a clause about redistribution (1), and it expressly specifies that it applies to “aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources”, not single, standalone works.

That is a weird way of wording it. In practice I doubt there are any OSI-approved licenses that prohibit standalone commercial distribution. If there were, you could trivially comply by just including a "hello world" program to make it an aggregate distribution.

This is more wholesome than I was expecting.

The government doesn't want you to know this, but identities are free. You can just take them. I have 458 identities.

It's an annoying combination of bugs. Basically just look at "newest" after posting, and upvote your post to make it visible.

All of your posts went through, there's just a bug with sorting. You should delete the duplicates. Unless perhaps the duplication is a commentary on the lack of moderation?

STOP MAKING MEMES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire

I just use the "boost" feature to save things.

Sounds like something an addict would say.

Alright, let's pretend that you've blocked me, and that this comment is telling everyone that you smell bad. It's not a direct/child response to your comment, but everyone can see it and knows I'm talking about you. If you don't respond, then by your logic I've "won", and you must in fact smell bad.

It seems more like you're taking a stand on stubborn principle than advocating for good user interface design.

I may be mistaken on the exact details of how it works on reddit, but allowing non-moderator users to prevent others from replying doesn't sound like a good idea. For comments, preventing a blocked user from replying directly in a child comment means they'll just reply in a sibling comment instead. They still get the last word, so the only thing accomplished is to mess up the threading a little bit.

For posts, preventing blocked users from replying gives the poster pseudo-moderator powers over replies. They can block anyone criticizing or disagreeing with them, giving them significant narrative control. Not exactly desirable.

Blocking should only be for filtering what the blocking user sees. It cannot be a substitute for proper moderation.

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Notifications from blocked users is a bug. There isn't really anything that can be done about the "last word" thing, though. On reddit-style platforms, the expectation is that blocking a user just hides their posts and comments. If the blocking user's activity was hidden from the blocked user, then it would be possible to preemptively block someone before defaming them in order to stop them from reporting it.