I always felt like it was wrong to block an account unless it was smth absolutely insane. Nazis etc.
But now I’m blocking people who’s tone I dont like, or who are baiting or actingnin bad faith.
I know I can’t do it as a mod. But i can certainly do it as an individual now. Judgy comment? Blocked. Unnecessarily confrontational? Blocked.
This is new to me, literally 3 days. Wonder how this affects my feed. Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can’t see it. I wish they couldn’t see anything I posted either.
What are your blocking habits? If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?
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I’ve gotten more aggressive with blocks lately. Feels like there’s been a lot more arguing and drama on here lately than usual, and I haven’t been on as much because of it. Blocking at least drowns a lot of that out.
happens every time a social media platform gets popular, no real way around except strong/consistent moderation
Feels like fewer posts and more drama. Constantly being the parent in the room online is annoying.
Haven’t felt the need to block anyone but it’s nice to have the functionality
People who I notice just dont get jokes and are in 20 different meme communities being all serious? Blocked.
Meanwhile, you using jokes to denigrate groups you don’t like and crying when people righteously call you out on your bullshit:
I wish there was a hide posts option, rather than a flat out block. There are some overly prolific posters that i would like to block, but their comments are not an issue, just the 40 rapid fire posts they made.
Opposite for me, there are quite a few that I want to see their posts but not their comments.
Ask your admins about that - PieFed has that feature but only admins can do it and it’s instance-wide.
Or even more granular. There’s folks that make a large number of posts that I do like in some comms, and a large number of ones I don’t care about in other comms.
If they’re the main one making low effort posts in the Weevil community or whatever, but everyone else is great, it would be preferable to prune the community for myself instead of blocking it or them.
I still think they’re a net positive for Lemmy and want to interact with them, just we may not like all the same things in the exact same way.
Is me 👉👈
of course not, we all respect our local mothfucker
Oh don’t forget how controversial that was too lol
lol no.
I block freely. My time and attention and mental and emotional bandwidth are limited resources, and to the extent possible I intend to spend them carefully.
I tend to ask questions about their opinion until they stop responding.
I like to pretend they’ve realised the absurdity of their own stance.
In reality I’m just easily amused.
When I see I have a message/reply in my Lemmy inbox, then open the inbox and see nothing - there is such a relaxing feeling pressing “mark all as read”, knowing I just avoided an annoying interaction from some idiot I’ve blocked in the past.
Am I blocked? 🥺
Lol no. I definetely remember good interactions in moth July with you I think
I blocked like that on reddit but here there’s fewer users so I have a higher block threshold.
Plus I want to give people credit for choosing to be on the fediverse - that earns almost everyone a “well maybe you just had a bad day”.
Eeeexactly. Only changed my style recently. And even still I check the profile for repeat offenders.
Not many people get blocked, but blocking communities is great
On Lemmy I usually block communities, if they are a drag in any way, like too negative, too weird, too much discussion of violence, etc. Didn’t have to block individuals that much, but in smaller communities it’s sometimes just an individual that makes it a drag, while most users post more pleasant things.
I’ve never really felt the need to block anyone (except the odd spam bot but I don’t think that counts). I think that might be because I pretty much exclusively browse my subscribed feed which means I basically only see posts that interest me, and I find any bad comments are usually heavily downvoted anyway. And its rare enough that I just ignore it.
I recommend a client that allows tags instead. I only block really toxic accounts.
trolls just get a label and they’re usually at the bottom of most threads anyway.
blocked
Kidding. I block BS and mean ness. If someone can express their point and let me express mine, I’m good. It’s when people start insulting others to get their point out I just don’t resonate with them and don’t see a point of ever talking to them again.
People over use blocking like crazy.
I constantly see people blocking others just for making a point they disagree with. Rather than actually think through the logic and reasoning of what the other person is saying they go ‘oh I have no counter point to that, that must mean that you’re arguing in bad faith, blocked’.
The internet is already an inherent filter bubble, you don’t need to accelerate that.
I only block communities for now. And my instance blocks a lot of … debate heavy instances.
Regarding blocking of individuals: feel free to do that, if it helps you having a better time, that is perfectly fine.
But I started tagging strange people if I think that something they said is not correct. Then later I randomly see them somewhere else behaving normally. So my current plan is tag them first to see if I find this one person repulsive again and if so then block them. This way it is less carpet bombing and I accept that everybody can have a bad day where they lash out.
I block communities and bots and obvious trolls.
My feed is perfectly fine without them. And the communities I block are the ones that I don’t want to see or know anything about like fucking politics and news.
I mainly block communities that only repost subreddits automatically. I don’t get the point of these.
This is what I do. I tag users and see if their behavior is a pattern or just a one off
Keep it up. Don’t let FOMO loosen your standards. If people acted like this to you in person, you would avoid them. Do it online as well.
Sadly we interact so much online that the bad behavior of social media is now informing people how to behave IRL.
