I try to give the most grace possible. I’ve only ever blocked two users here. That said, I’d totally understand why someone might block me.
I’m not gonna just willy nilly block people… already too low userbase, I kinda wanna just see the drama
Like even that user asking weird age gap questions is part of the entertainment lol
But if they start being overtly toxic… yea I’m just gonna block and ignore
Thats reasonable.
Originally I didn’t like blocking people or communities at all but I’ve realised the lemmy experience is dramatically improved by blocking idiots.
The thing is lemmy is a relatively small community. If some nutter posts and comments every day they can really shape your impression of the place.
Some users have very little life experience, and depth of understanding, and are just fixated on some single issue. I’m not here to argue with that type of user.
Yesterday I blocked a community just because the single mod didn’t understand the problems caused by editorialising titles when posting articles.
Editorializing articles? Name and shame.
epsteinfiles@lemmy.world
The reality of what’s going on provides enough to legitimately complain about. Making up headlines is just cheap outrage farming and undermines any credibility.
If you feel the title is misleading then you can absolutely complain about that in the comments.
Thanks for that.
Not often. I browse by new all so I can begin the downvote train as early as possible and report stuff.
Hell yeah
I’m very quick to block. Much faster to do so than I was on Reddit. I think the reason is because there’s so much less content on Lemmy that I sort by new instead of “hot”. That means I see content that would normally have been downvoted out of sight on Reddit. I’m tired of giving people the benefit of the doubt just to see the same terrible shit from them again later on. Now I just block.
block and reporting on reddit is pretty futile, too much bots, and reporting too much, depending on the sub, you can get temp banned for doing it.
Yeah I hear you on all that
I tag first
Yep.
I haven’t blocked anyone, but I have people tagged with 🤡 or 💩 if they’re a troll, a shill, and ass, etc.
Life is too short to deal with assholes and bots. They get blocked very quickly.
When I made this account, I went through the communities and blocked a lot of them. All sports, foreign languages, anime, and furries. All the content I know that I have no interest in.
Yeah I block communities pretty frequently because I sort by new. Usually porn.
ani.social is…weird. I block the entire instance.
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being from reddit, i often block as soon as possible, and report alot. the latter burned my accounts, so i dont report here at all.
I don’t recall reporting anyone on Lemmy. I do see users getting banned so either other users are reporting or the mods are very active.
Yes, I’ve blocked some people, but it’s mostly communities.
Same. Maybe a dozen users blocked.
Im fairly quick to block, especially if the person is clearly acting with bad intent. Id rather have slow and steady high quality content than mediocre garbage every few seconds. Social media does not consume my life and I lived in the era of forums. I am used to waiting for good content.
you wouldn’t dare blocking me
I can agree on that
I’ve only ever had to block spammers on any Lemmy-like platform. Users tend to be cool and I try to give people grace for being awkward and weird because… I’m awkward and weird.
Thats kind of you
If it’s gross porn or AI slop, instant block. For comments it’s only if we get like a dozen replies into an argument and I stop assuming they’re able to read
I don’t block, I label them with a tag, usually ‘asswipe’.
Tankie and Energy Vampire are my two go to tags. I only block spammers or anything horrific like the couple times some assholes did CSAM attacks.
I do that too, but also if you enable tracking votes (I’m using Voyager) then you basically are tracking positive and negative encounters and you get an idea what a thread will be like just by looking. Example, you and OP appear to be nice peeps:
Never knew about the tracking option; I’m piqued.
A guy commented a screenshot of me with a tag like that. “Toxic do not interact”. I do act toxic in the shitpost community lmao so, fair. I’m real good in serious communities though.
The left lemmy vibe is very-much bipolar.
You could post identical comments 10 minutes apart and one could be downvoted to oblivion whilst the other is top comment.
the tankies are the problems, they behave too similar like conservatives.
Yup, once I figured out I could tag users I started doing that instead. Much better to be prepared than to just choose blindness.
Generally I’m a bit more specific though.
I have not really had to block til recently. Esp attention seekers who have just joined and are posting immature crap.
I would say i have blocked at least 5 in the last 2 weeks.
It’s pointless blocking people if that means they can still see and reply to you. Why even bother?
You can’t see them, that’s the point. You block users, comms or instances you don’t want to see on your timeline.
You don’t get to decide what other people want to see on theirs
Strong agree. If blocking also means they can’t see your posts or comment on it, then that becomes primarily a way for trolls to attack and block anyone who disagrees with them
That’s not it because it’s not about deciding for others, but about deciding for your own posts. I should be able to decide my visibility.
You have control over your visibility, anything you don’t want people to see, you don’t put in the internet.
Where do you get this idea?
Where do you get the idea that it is at all possible to stand up on your soapbox in the town square, addressing every Tom, Dick, and Harry, yet keeping certain members of the public from hearing your speech?
When I logout of my instance, you can’t distinguish me from any other anonymous user. I’m part of the anonymous masses. If you want to keep me from seeing your content, you can’t post it for the anonymous masses to see.
Facebook (and other proprietary, centralized services) give the impression that this can be done, but the way they are doing it is by refusing to show content to anonymous users. You can’t do that with federated services.
So those replies won’t show up in my inbox of course
But then that’s not really blocking, that’s just hiding users.
Well idc about the semantics, the fact is it is useful and there is a good reason to use it. Personally I think the “they can’t see or reply to you anymore” style of “block” is super toxic and Reddit switching to that model was a major factor in its decline. It is very easily weaponized and basically amounts to giving powerusers moderation powers. If someone who makes a lot of popular posts or top level comments blocks you under that model, that instantly limits your ability to participate, and no one ever gets to know this is happening or to what extent. The most obvious way this gets abused is by commercial spammers trying to monopolize relevant subs by blocking everyone who may call them out or post competing content, but it also shuts down disagreement and debate; if you have something controversial to say and don’t want it to look like any good objections exist, you can just silence your best critics.
its the same way on reddit, you block them but you could still see thier content, i dont think they can reply to you, but someone else on that comment chain though.
That was a late-stage enshittification; it’s only been that way for a few years, and it was primarily used to suppress dissent.
It is absolutely not something we should be porting over to the fediverse.
I’ve only blocked a few people, but I’m quick to tag people as assholes/MAGA
I don’t think I’ve run into any MAGAs on here but I believe you.
got a mile long blocklist of comms but never block a user account unless the display name is obnoxiously long or full of emojis
what if the whole thing is emojis?
asking for a friend
tell your friend all emojis, immediate block. four nonstandard characters is thin ice but acceptable
I think that all of the people I’ve blocked for a reason that I can recall have been users who were repeatedly spamming comments in threads to try to make them unreadable for other users. One was just commenting over and over with a couple of giant inline Simpsons images.
Wild trolling behavior. Was it in a troll related community?
No; I’m not subscribed to any communities that deal with trolling. I wasn’t even aware that there were any out there.
I mean like shitposting/meme communities. I troll and act silly in communities like those but mostly keep it serious in this one along with other serious communities.
