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if a person thinks blocking users and communities they dont like is the way to curate their feed, i hope they block all the communities im in.
To be fair, you're on an instance that blocks communist instances. Or do you mean defederation is better than individual blocking?
im new to lemmy, so i was yet unaware of .world instance blocking communist instances. i'll look into that.
i think blocking is goofy, thats what i was trying to convey.
Gotcha. Lemmy.world is defederated from Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net , so if you want a more general instance Lemmy.zip is probably more what you want. Alternatively, Lemmy.ml is federated with those two (and almost every other major instance), but is defederated from porn instances.
thanks for this info, its appreciated.
No problem!
I didn't know that, but that's great
Yea I'd rather not have my social media experience intersperced with porn, haha.
.world have been proven to subscribe people to israeli propaganda mailing list. A read about a guy who used unique email address for each subscription and he started recieving emails about israel from the one he used for .world.
I don't doubt this, but do you have a source?
I saw the firsthand accounts of multiple people saying this happened to them. One of them was an ex mod and the other used unique address.
That's exactly how I curate my feed. Do you have any idea how many sports sublemmies my instance has? It's the Midwest. It was a lot.
thats an interesting example and i do appreciate it.
but unless you regularly block users bc you dont like what they said, then i didnt really mean you :) i could have been more clear with my original comment that i exclusively meant both those things, but i didnt think to at the time.
What's wrong with blockers users when you don't like what they say? If someone is spewing slurs you bet I'm blocking them. I don't need that in my life.
The longer and more thoroughly you do so, the less aware you are; after a while you can be quite out of touch with the people and world around you. You live in a society, and it's better to know your enemy than to be oblivious to them. Social networking with less social can be a hug box trap.
Nothing WRONG with doing it, however. It's your right to be anywhere on the scale between being very social and total isolation.
I feel like this presumes people don't have irl community and social networks. The Internet and social media isn't my only view into the world. People are their worst selves online because there is no duty of care to each other.
I think it's absurd to say that filtering your social media, something that inherently depends on engagement and algorithms, gives you a more narrow worldview. As if each social media doesn't have inherent bias.
id report and block someone using slurs, but ive never seen that on lemmy.
the op of this post blocked me for my comment. i didnt use any slurs.
What's the arbitrary line between avoiding people who use slurs vs people who annoy you and make your online experience worse?
I think it's mega presumptuous to judge what other people should tolerate online.
the OP blocked me for my opinion. if you dont think thats goofy, i dont know what to tell you.
That's exactly my point though. Neither you nor I know how much your comment annoyed him. Only he gets to decide how much of a thing he should tolerate online.
I have NSFW content filtered but I still block the anime feed and Church of Thighentology comms because they aren't NSFW but I still don't want to see sexualized anime images in my feed.
I block communities related to leather and eating animal flesh because I'm not really interested in seeing dead bodies.
Am I being goofy? Do I only get to explore what's new in the fedverse if I view sexualized or distressing material?
yeah i think blocking people for their opinion is goofy, i stand by that. i dont really want to argue about it. im glad you have the control in place to filter your feed in that manner.
i come to lemmy to relax during my break at work, not to debate about weather or not we should carpet bomb civilians
well theres nothing to debate there. but since you brought it up, we shouldnt.
Tell that to your instance admins
i thought you said you didnt come here to talk about that stuff?
anwyay, i'll be selecting a new instance shortly.
You are right. Have a nice day buddy ♥️
thanks, you too :)
I do and I just blocked you
a pity you will never hear my sincere congratulations
I always get the vibe it's an astroturf. A way to c convince leftist to further isolate themselves like 1700 Japan. It just makes these people turn into Trump like archetypes where you only surround yourself with people you agree with.