Well I’ve definitely misinterpreted.

This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from ‘David [email protected]’ and then I see your comment as

@dgerard gtfo. Lol

Which to me I interpreted as ‘lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here’. Especially with the reply from second user, “thanks, blocked”.

adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance

anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges

at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it’s a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.)