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Blocking people who cause you unnecessary grief is always the right move. Their energysuck is not worth it.
I only have a handful of blocked individuals and don’t get much negativity. I often wonder if it’s because I am using lemmynsfw as my instance. 🤔
I generally only block people who clearly are antagonizing for the sake of being antagonistic or are so far up their own ass, there is no chance of ever pulling them out of it so it’s not worth it to even have them visible.
If I blocked everyone or everything that I didn’t completely agree with, there would be so, so much shit I would never see.
Well, I don’t block every mod simply for being a mod. Just the toxic ones. So you are safe
…for now
I’ll try not to get any toxic Yar Tar on you
TIL that Janeway is a mod… (based on the trail of bodies she leaves behind her?)
We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
I am the Janeway. I will add your drones to my crew and parts to my ship. Please resist, or else this won’t be any fun!? ☺️
Seven is a starfleet captain now so….
Why are you a mod?
I was asked, and I love Trek, and I love Trek memes
My blocklist is crazy long since I block all collaborators and changelings. Also anyone talking like a Romulan or anyone who speaks without honor…straight to the blocklist.
Teft, his block list long.
Jolan tru…
…I mean… how about some root beer, it’s deeeelicious!
It’s insidious
Just like the Federation!
Your ears are looking awful pointy wise_pancake…
That’s because I was just practicing an Andorian play pretending to be a Romulan! I’m still in costume you see. A Romulan would never partake in leisure activities with an Andorian, therefore I must be human.
I have to use the lavatory now, but after I come back maybe you would like to discuss your… our plans in the neutral zone?
My block list grew slower once Voyager implemented user tagging. Most of what gets blocked now is porn stuff. I don’t mind it existing (and have an account just for that), but there’s certain stuff that just isn’t my bag, baby.
I didn’t know about tagging until just now. How do you use it? Do you tag profiles so you ignore them instead of blocking?
Long press a username and select edit tag:
Hopefully I captured both the rage and panda lol.
And yeah, I’ll tag people as trolls/agitators, bigots, headline bots (even if there’s a real person behind the account), [insert political label here], etc. I’ll still block if I feel the need to, but a nice yellow and black “warning” tag lets me know to just not engage, and why.
Edit: you may need to go into settings -> user tags and enable them first.
Haha I think you got it 😂 that’s a good idea. I normally don’t pay too much attention to users, but I should start doing that
I figure you are asking about Voyager, but for any Thunder users reading this thread: longpress a comment > user > add user label
I use Voyager and had no idea.
It’s pretty new within past few months, and opt in. So don’t feel too bad
Thanks! Totally missed that setting.
My grandpa ass (not really old, I just play an old on TV) just figured out how they work and holy shit. What a great feature!
Reasonable. It lowers the chance of ending up in an argument with someone who will use vindictive mod action as part of their toxic behavior.
Well, you know. In Starfleet, it’s usually the admirals who screw things up for everyone else.
I remember the good old days, when the crazy ones were always commodores.
I have a lot of blocked communities, but only 5 blocked individuals.
Edit: Trump and Elon are filtered as well, as are two instances due to too many trolls and one because I don’t speak their language and they show up too often on /all.
I have zero blocked anything. Even if people are trolls, it’s fun to see what everyone is saying.
I’ve even had constructive conversation on Hexbear before, I enjoy engaging with people with different opinions to me.
I’ve even had constructive conversation on Hexbear before
I’m guessing you didn’t go against the flow?
One time I said it’s fucked up that Romani children are taken away from primary school and married off to have children.
Within an hour, I had crazy fucks publicly screaming at me how I’m a nazi and advocating genocide. Meanwhile I was also getting private messages about how they’re hoping I would suffer and some shit.
No I absolutely go against the flow, half of them shit on me and memed on me, and a few shared thoughtfully written messages explaning their point of view. The thoughtful messages are the constructive conversions I’ve had
I blocked a LOT of furry porn but no people
I blocked a singular bot, lemmy.ml, trump/elon, furry subs (not for me, no hate), and anime subs because they’re boring.
I’m just pleased to see no blahaj’s on the list. Cheers!
I blocked the worst shit stirrers (just the ones calling for defederation with whomever seemingly every week) and my internet drama has gone down significantly. If I want a real chill time, I temporarily block .world. Less content but it gets rid of pretty much all the BS.
To someone in the know, and who wants that, it’s fine, and even enjoyable as you see. Whereas to a day-1 new user, it is far less so, if they wander into the likes of !Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net (edit: from All, without having read the sidebar text) or Lemmygrad.ml or say something that an admin at Lemmy.ml takes umbrage at, e.g. that Russia is attacking Ukraine, or that Uyghurs are being killed by China, etc.
My beef against it all is that it is opt-out by default, rather than opt-in, and I think it holds the Fediverse back from gaining new users who take one look at it and nope out, possibly never to return. Which since we are declining in number of active users, can be a real problem for us all, as it reduces our availability of content.
But even better than opt-out or opt-in, it would be nice to label it and leave the user to decide what they want to do about it. THAT’S the real problem imho: the lack of transparency as to what it is all about, affecting solely people who don’t yet know - i.e. those of us who have climbed the ladder, will we do anything to help others who may follow?
But even better than opt-out or opt-in, it would be nice to label it and leave the user to decide what they want to do about it.
Yeah. This is the way we need to move toward.
Then each app can ship with it’s own default list of wait-for-opt-in to show content, but can all hit the basics like NSFW and NSFL.
Fwiw, PieFed does that already. It’s still working on the foundationals, but it already has features like Categories of Communities, hashtags, the ability to block all users from a user-specified instance, a separate NSFW vs. NSFL/gore, and more.
So when you join you choose the “Topic” areas that you are interested in, which populates the Categories/Topic areas, i.e. you opt-in. Though tbf the flagship instance PieFed.social has defederated entirely from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml so there’s a difference between “PieFed” the Lemmy software replacement and specific instances, ofc, the same as in Lemmy.
Some high-functioning apps let you do a bunch of this as well.
Also PieFed allows the admin to add “labels” to places, like this one appears on every post from Beehaw:
This post is hosted on beehaw.org which has higher standards of behaviour than most places. Be nice.
With that link going to their very own statement of purpose, in their very own words, rather than having other words forced upon them. So friendly!! (See example of it in action here, and while I am at it, another example, this one showing off Communities at the top and hashtags at the bottom of the post, plus as you scroll past the comments you see the “sidebar” text below every single post.)
Also there are labels for users too - like one for brand-new accounts, another for people who receive significantly more downvotes than upvotes, and so on. You could be scrolling through a post and see a tankie user account with the label next to it, but decide for yourself if you want to engage or not. It is a helpful little warning though that by doing so you would be engaging with someone known to be an extremely low-reputation troll.
Lastly there’s a bunch of features that allow for what I’ll call “democratization of moderation”, where instead of a moderator making allow vs. remove binary decisions that affect everyone in a community equally, each end user can make their own thresholds to decide what level of contentious behavior to show or not. PieFed will auto-collapase or even outright auto-hide posts that receive a certain large number of downvotes, or just set the threshold super high to disable that feature entirely (as I did). I find that neat though bc no longer will it be the case that someone else’s freedom to speak becomes my freedom to have to listen, despite my lack of consent, and it wouldn’t even require a mod to remove content, just some time for a community to do its voting procedure as normal.
So I eagerly look forward to when PieFed becomes more developed! I’m already using it as my daily driver, although tbf I can’t recommend it to someone brand-new who doesn’t have a Lemmy alt to fall back onto when encountering scenarios that PieFed does not handle well yet, like searching for posts.
I avoid blocking, especially entire instances, but sometimes I have to prioritize my sanity.
I’m gonna guess the non english one is feddit.org, that’s always popping up on my feed.
Feddit.de The worst part is that their memes seem top notch. I just can’t get any of it.
Feddit.de shut down, and feddit.org replaced it.
Ah. Well, no issues with the new instance yet.
To be fair, having an instance blocked means you have a lot of communities blocked as well.
Strangely enough, the way that PieFed implements that, in the manner opposite of Lemmy, I see no content from Lemmy.ml users anywhere across all of Lemmy, yet I do oddly have access to those communities still:-). They are not entirely empty, but definitely far more so than the original, having only posts and comments from people on other instances contributing to them:-).
I like this approach much better actually.:-)
Daym, I need to get some of that pie.
It’s not fully ready yet, for someone who does not have an early adopter mindset, but it’s coming, and I’m able to use it as my daily driver already (with frequent fall-backs to Lemmy when I need something that PieFed hasn’t implemented yet).
I just heard that Andrew got a fork of Thunder working for PieFed. So… that will be helpful to see coming to the main branch at some point:-). ⚡
That’s because you see the content posted there by people from instances you’re federated with and that you haven’t blocked. Perfectly normal behavior.
If their instance was to block yours then you would only see the content posted by people from your own instance on theirs (as far as I understand from my experience with what l can see on Beehaw).
For a function that says “Block everyone from <instancename>”, PieFed’s ability here does remarkably exactly and precisely what it says that it will.
In contrast, Lemmy’s “block instance” does not block either the users or domains (the term that Mbin and PieFed use to refer to URLs originating from an instance), and instead might be better termed a community muting.
Though so few people use PieFed (it’s not ready for mainstream yet) and so many here use Lemmy, that the “expectations” are stilted towards what Lemmy offers by default, even as misnamed as it is (although iirc the Sync and Connect apps for Lemmy can also do a true instance user block).
Toxicity is relative. Cutting yourself off from people who are lashing out at others online is understandable… albeit you will be missing out on a lot of what the world has to offer doing that.
I’d block myself if I could
I don’t want to be a member of any club that would have me
I blocked FCC Liquidator Brunt after that last unpleasant exchange. HA!
FCA. If Brunt works for the FCC we’re all screwed.
Who’s to say he doesn’t?? Well, as of Jan 20th anyway.
