(1) if i'm blocked by someone, it seems like i shouldn't be able to see their toots when other people boost them, except that I can

(1a) in this specific case, it's a local user boosting a remote user who blocked me -- does it at least work if the boosting user and the blocking user are on the same instance?

(2) how do you get those nifty custom fields on your profile???

@mxsparks I blocked a guy once who was an instance admin and he kept replying to my toots, which he obviously still could read, only I couldn't read his replies any more. ;D

I looked at the federated timeline of his instance and my toots appeared on there too, so I just said goodbye to the idea that by blocking someone you can hide your public toots from them.

@distelfliege @mxsparks Yeah, there's two parts to blocking someone:

1- your instance does not federate your toots to their account because it is marked as blocked
2- their instance rejects content from your account when viewed from their account

The thing is, like you said, they're an instance admin, so if they know even a little bit of ruby, they can remove 2 completely. That's most likely what they did.