Sure, it won't inhibit their actions at all, but it greatly reduces the negativity I experience here and stops me from interacting with it
Since I could not find a decent quality template for this, I made my own: https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/140229bd-a85b-4b5e-bcf7-2547bd35ca66.webp
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.
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.
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?
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.
I avoid blocking, especially entire instances, but sometimes I have to prioritize my sanity.
I have zero blocked communities, 11 blocked users, and... the entire lemmy.ml instance. :-)
I don't feel like I'm missing anything at all important.
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.
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.
I figure you are asking about Voyager, but for any Thunder users reading this thread: longpress a comment > user > add user label
Blocking people who cause you unnecessary grief is always the right move. Their energysuck is not worth it.
I'd block myself if I could
I don't want to be a member of any club that would have me
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.
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.
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.
