Block rule

I only ever block spam. I don't block people with differing opinions to me because that's not how I roll. On the flipside, I block lemmy communities all the time - logic being that I'd rather sort by new and remove communities I have no interest in because you never know when something interesting you're not subscribed to can come up in your feed.

Easiest example being: I've never seriously watched Star Trek or considered installing Linux, but you bunch of cunts have convinced me into transitioning. I'm not quite at the stage of programmer socks, but I'm sure y'all will force my hand eventually... ❤

Dw you're government issued thigh highs will arrive upon you installing arch
- I'll be honest, I'm holding off only to do more research into what version of Linux I want installed and - more importantly - how to install it without fucking everything up.
  
  I've never dual booted, but I think that's the most likely solution for me right now so I can get used to it.
  
  Since getting a Steam Deck, I think what I want is essentially a desktop that is very similar to the Deck. All I really use a desktop for nowadays is Steam and Firefox.
  
  I've seen Pop!OS being mentioned in several articles I've read, along with Mint and Bazzite. I've heard of Ubuntu, of course - I think that's one of the more well known distros.
  
  The whole thing can be overwhelming when you're not used to it. I had the same issue when originally joining Lemmy!
Now all together: One of us, one of us, one.......
what about toxic idiots whose every comment is downvoted to oblivion and they make you want to stop even looking at comments anymore
- If the point is to deliberately not contribute then yeah, fair enough, but through my experience of Lemmy so far I haven't really experienced many of those.

That's exactly why I never block anyone

Hey, I’m down for floor drugs but I’ve got a full test kit sooooooo

Floor drugs deserved better than this.

TEST EM (then do em)
- My stance on floor drugs is akin to Angel Dust off Hazbin Hotel: "You think I can't tell my drink is being spiked? Its what I come here for!!"

I'll start blocking people when it stops people from responding to my posts, Reddit style.

I don't have the patience to deal with people using my posts as a jumping-off point for ignorant shite without being called out on it.

Yeah, I do feel lemmy leaves something to be desired with blocking. I like Bluesky’s system, where it stops them from interacting with you and also breaks any posts of theirs that were quote tweeting (quote posting?) your posts.
The problem with that style of blocking is that it goes both ways.

Someone can post ignorant shite and block anyone who would give them pushback, then when other people look at the comments they think "wow I guess everyone here just agrees with this".

I guess I've always viewed making a post as standing on a street corner and shouting, not meeting on the side of a street with a group of your friends.

I guess it depends on if you view "subreddits" as communities, that is groups of people that you choose to associate with if you post there, or if you view them as topics that you want your post tagged as. A lot of social media sites take the latter approach, but reddit used to take the former, as did old style forums. It might just be from me spending more time on those kinds of platforms, but I do think the "community" approach is better.
That just lets people with a following become a mobile echo chamber.

The only things I block are legit spam, and hexbear. And the only reason I block hexbear is because I’m banned from their instance and can’t interact with it anyway.

Even if you're not banned from hexbear can you really interact with it?

I wouldn't call someone going through the wikipedia article for informal fallacies like it's a checklist then brigading all your past activities an interaction so much as an experience, and not a good one at that.
I don't like your profile pic. Always makes wanna check my phone screen
- It's a classic.

My blocklist is insanely long. All sports, all furry shit, people from both, anime blocks all day - can't stand the stupid mains/moe stuff.

Holy shit the number of blocks needed to cut out the communities of "questionable Japanese cartoons about characters that look suspiciously like young kids" is fucking insane

Try mentioning it without some neckbeard snorting about PrOJeCTinG lol

Would be good to have some kind of script that could do it
- She might like like a 10 year old, but it's fine. Shes a 600 year old vampire. Trust us bro.
- Yeah, it took me a while. Now it's just minor maintenance. Such is lemmy.

I've genuinely never felt the need, but I also don't post for clout or proactively, I'm more of a reply guy in that I prefer the version of social media where I talk with people rather than at people and I do not give a crap about followers, upvotes or starting popular threads. Believe it or not that tends to do a lot to minimize the use cases for blocking, in that people rarely take the time to chase me around or specifically target me, even when things get heated.

But hey, if somebody is bothering you block away. I don't have a moral stance on it.

I'm gonna start following and bothering you!

Edit: huh boost for lemmy doesn't seem to have a "follow this user" button. So you might be save for now.
- Put it on your calendar, daily repeating. Wake up, morning prep, breakfast + harass, you know?

but...i like floor drugs??

Pray tell, what are floor drugs please?
- you know how you're not supposed to eat food after it's fallen on the floor?
  
  imagine that but with whatever pills people leave on the ground without even knowing what they are
  
  (I'm assuming, I don't do drugs)

Yeah I don’t want to just see content from people I agree with. Guess I’m crazy.

Yep. The only time I block someone is if they are actually being a dick specifically to me, my family, or my friends.

I instance blocked lemmy.ml because of mods deleting my comments. I don't want to accidentally get involved in discussions and spend time writing comments for them to just be deleted because the mods don't agree with me.

Comments in linux@lemmy.ml are very unlikely to be deleted
- I think lemmy.ml mods/admins often wipe entire comment histories in the community/instance when they remove specific comments. Say something about Taiwan and boom, your comments talking about toilet paper patents are gone
  
  Don't quote me on that though

Once you realize that 90% of society is genuinely not worth interacting with, life gets better.

I wouldn't say that. But I do think 90% of society probably isn't worth interacting with through the medium of current social media.

So many blocks. It gets especially bad when US politics are spammed literally everywhere.

You mean everyone throws blocks at each other?

My block rule is simple:

I also do that.

Reddit's short list of good decisions definitely includes "disable replies."

"Hide votes" is also a nice decision in lemmy :3
- Strong disagree. Voting is preliminary moderation. It's the wisdom of crowds. The fact Lemmy does nothing to hide comments at +1 -48 is fucking horrifying... especially when mods don't just delete that shit, despite demanding all responses to it be "civil." As if gentle and polite replies are appropriate in the face of plainly intolerable horseshit.