Having a #Fediverse instance that gives me a notification when someone blocks me is always interesting.
I don't get blocked very often. I try to be respectful of others, and not rude. But, I got a block this morning.
I'd never interacted with the person who blocked me. I didn't follow him; he didn't follow me; I've never seen his posts.
I was curious why he would've blocked me, so I checked out his profile, and I saw some recent posts discussing the whole silliness of this proposed American TikTok ban. I think he blocked me because I made a joke this morning about it, and maybe he happened to see it in his Federated feed, or in a tag search.
But, if that's why he blocked me, he probably didn't get that I was being sarcastic, making a joke.
I'm not offended, or anything. Like I said, I wasn't following him. It's no real loss on my part. But, I do find it weird. Do people really #block others so easily? I rarely block other people. I really only block people who are bigoted, or trolls, or just generally hateful. I wouldn't block someone just because they said something I disagreed with, especially if it was someone I didn't even follow.
I find the whole thing odd.
An interesting thing about microblogpub is that, very unlike other Fediverse software (like Mastodon), I get a notification when somebody has unfollowed me, or blocked me.
Someone accidentally blocked me, and then immediately unblocked me a couple days ago. I got notifications for both of them.
I didn't actually know that it was a standard part of the ActivityPub protocol for an actor to send a block event to the actor being blocked. It doesn't seem like someone should know that I've blocked them, but I guess that's the way it goes.
Just FYI, in case you didn't know (I certainly didn't), someone might know if you've blocked or unfollowed them.