Okay fair enough. Text can be a very poor medium.
Also it’s a bit frustrating because I bring up something that is potentially a serious problem to the health of the instance, because getting defederated or even raided (dramaticcat might not get us raided or widely defederated but our other user who I’ve disclosed to the admins but not publicly for my own safety might). So obviously it’s imperative that I not block either of them on this account.
For the record I do block people on my main account (and did block them there), I block a lot of people and communities (probably will do instances when that’s available), it’s also kind of the point of why I’m doing it here and not on my main (that and I don’t want death threats, DDoS, and Porn sent to me, again dramaticcat isn’t my main concern with that one, the unnamed user is, I decided to bring two issues at once because I figured people would think I was dog-piling to bring them up in separate issues (I’ll make a note not to do it again in the future).
Hi I’m not related to that individual I just found your comment thread doing searches, I haven’t heard of the Lemmy software being able to do IP bans anywhere, would you mind sharing where you heard this information.
As far as I know the only way to do “IP Bans” on Lemmy is to manually block them from the server’s firewall but that’s not a Lemmy software feature, it’s a server feature, and it was also always possible.