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I think your missing the point of federation. If some place is crappy or you feel its run by crappy folks you can go to another or start your own. You could sorta do that on reddit but ultimately it went to a single authority. Whats nice here is I can hang or places or not. This gets back to my big thing. Blocking. Instances should avoid blocking and such as much as possible but users should do it liberally. This piss you off. Block the community so you don't accidentally engage with it in future. We literally can make the experience we want and the whole. you will put yourself in a bubble thing. thats fine. I put myself in a bubble any time I decide to hang out in place or folks in the real world or avoid places and folks. im fine with that. When the internet was smaller and not so full of trump it was maybe I wanted to see everything but now Im more looking to avoid the trumpy trump that is all over the place.
Yeah I get that and should block instances more. I’ve just found that outside of the mainstream instances there isn’t a lot of interaction or content.
I belive in blocking rather than subscribing. I look at all and see plenty of content and interaction.
i get it, but I also don't want to create an echo chamber for myself and be blind to parts of the world.
im like 100% fine with it. As I said in real life I decide to frequent places I like and avoid places I don't and I never worried about that putting me in an echo chamber. Plus that is limited to stuff local to me as opposed to everything available across the world. Why would I feel that way about the internet?
I just need to know what's going on with people. the good and the bad, so I can gauge what's going on with the world.
yeah its like after work the first place you want to hit is that one with the jerk bouncer who makes fun of you and suggests he won't let you in and insist you go change your shirt. The one with the nazis and facists who talk your ear off on how we need solutions for some people. Good or bad its important to know. Insert whatever other crap needs to be known. I don't get my news from here. I might encounter it but I don't expect to be informed by randos on the internet. No offense to you or anyone else. I just don't get how people don't treat social media like they do real life.
i don't get news from here either. i just don't want to be blind to what's going on. i've already blocked ml, but i'm glad i know it and its users exist and what they're like. i wouldn't spend my weekends in conservative spaces, but i'm not opposed to having conversations with or being around conservative people. good to have perspective for why people are the way they are instead of just the headlines read and then grouping people into buckets.
blocking instances is a bit tricky as I found out. Blocking users removes posts and replies from the users you block and blocking communities filters them and their posts and such from out of your feed. When you block instances you are blocking all communities and users of that instance. I wish the blocking for instances would allow you to choose users or communities or both.
Hm. I’ll have to play with it a bit and see.
You can always create more than one account. You could have one to look at stuff you like where you block everything else and another for looking at the rest.
Getting bombarded with negativity all the time is much more destructive than choosing when you interact with it.
That’s a good idea