Mastodon has timed muting, but only permanent blocking.
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Some day most people are going to understand that "I want to post something visible to everyone in the world EXCEPT these specific people" is not a viable or reasonable or even possible approach to communication, and any attempts to make it work are doomed to failure.
It's extremely unlikely ... YOU, sure. But it's absolutely certain that legit people will be blocked from contacting from those numbers to hundreds or thousands of other people.
Would you spend an hour fixing a problem that will only save you ten minutes total in the rest of your lifetime using the software?
How did you get from "People often ask" to "having recurring conversations with everyone you know"?
The same way anyone else for whom English is a second or third language function in society.
And, since we don't own or use any Haier appliances, we aren't subject to their TOS.
Most of my motivation here was recurring conversations with friends and colleagues and strangers about how much time I put into making small contributions to open source projects.
I'm going to click the [-] thread collapse button on Lemmy 50 times in the next ten minutes.
That area of the chart is for people with really repetitive jobs/hobbies. There are MANY jobs where you do the same 5-10 minute thing 50x a day.
It's not just about openid/identity/authentication. It's also about syndication and subscription. For forums to fill the niche reddit fills, we would have needed much better tooling around things like RSS/Atom, to allow people to see and interact with content from many forums in a consolidated interface.
If you're at least a 4/10 woman or an 8/10 man, they are pretty effective. For the rest of us, not so much.