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On both Reddit and Lemmy, blocking someone prevents them from replying. It prevents them from even seeing your final word*
* sort of. Depending on exactly where and how they look.
I don't believe they are blocked from replying on Lemmy. That's the opposite of what I've heard, but I haven't really experimented.
Pretty sure it doesn't do that on lemmy. I definitely have comments with blocked responses (they show up a specific way in Jerboa) from people I blocked ages ago. If I open the thread in a browser where I'm not signed in I can see their response clearly.
So they can still see and reply to my comments, I just don't have to see more than an error message that the comment couldn't be loaded on my end.
I might be wrong, but I was under the assumption that Lemmy doesn't stop them from replying. There was a recent conversation complaining because blocking people didn't silence them.
If you want to test it, feel free to reply and block me, I'll see if I can keep the conversation going. Unblock later tonight to see if it worked.
I guess Reddit does it that way, but I try not to think about that place anymore.
My experience is that on Reddit it replaces the comment with
[unavailable], similar to[removed]when a mod removes it, or[deleted]when they delete it themselves.And that on Lemmy, it depends on client. On lemmy-ui (the default web client), it sometimes shows up as that "1 more reply" option, but when you click it, it never loads in. On Jerboa, it says something along the lines of "unable to retrieve this comment".
Both of those are what happens when you come across a comment from a person who blocked you in the wild. It may or may not be different when it's in your inbox.
I've been blocked by at least one person on Lemmy, for reasons that I honestly have no idea, and have come across this in the wild a couple of times, including opening something I originally found on my computer in Jerboa to double-check, as well as opening up incognito where I'm logged out and therefore not blocked.
Also replying to @MagicShel@lemmy.zip, @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com