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Hello !Friendica Support
What is the difference of blocking an account and ignoring an account in #Friendica ?

I would actually expect I could still go to an accounts profile to view its posts when I ignored it, but posts should not show in /network.

Turns out the profiles conversations are empty when an account is ignored. That seem wrong.
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Hypolite Petovan
@utzer [Friendica] Ignoring: One-way block, they can still receive your content.
Blocking: Two-way block, they can't follow you.
utzer [Friendica]
@Hypolite Petovan OK, then the naming implies something different, at least for me.
Hypolite Petovan
@utzer [Friendica] What's the intended behavior, naming aside?
utzer [Friendica]
@Hypolite Petovan well not seeing the posts anywhere except I choose to read then. So not on search/timeline/replies on posts, but when I got to the profile and then select conversions, I still want to read the posts.

Mute it was on Twitter.

Like what you want to do when a person posts alot and you just don't want to be spammed alle the time, you mute and just read from time to time?
utzer [Friendica]
@Hypolite Petovan also there is no need to really remove all posts, I mean that I only expected on a block .
Hypolite Petovan
@utzer [Friendica] Hmm, the closest to this would be Collapsing, but you would still see post stubs. The problem with the case you're describing, which is perfectly valid, is that we have only one central way to handle individual moderation choices to retrieve posts, which means that it applies anywhere posts are retrieved for any reason, including the timeline, profile pages, etc...
utzer [Friendica]
@Hypolite Petovan hmm I see, so the only thing that might be possible is a stealth follow, like the server just sorts public posts to inbox 0 (the common one), but then posts would still show up in /network when shared, liked, replied to, tags..
Hypolite Petovan
@utzer [Friendica] Yes, in this context this sounds like a good workaround.
utzer [Friendica]
@Hypolite Petovan so not really possible because of how Friendica works.
Hypolite Petovan
@utzer [Friendica] No, I mean "stealth follow" sounds like a good workaround given the way Friendica's code is currently structured. I'm not sure what's easier to implement, a variable-permission post fetch method or a stealth follow. @Michael Vogel ?
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