I've never blocked someone except bots, so I'm wondering what your reasons are to block people. In my experience trolls/people who argument in bad faith lost interest quickly when I didn't respond.
Anyone who says North Korea is the best korea, denies tiannmen square, thinks russia is justified in taking ukraine, and has a lemmy.ml ueername is an instant block from me
most recently someone blocked me because I said there are multiple interpretations of the Dao De Jing and they shouldn't shut someone down for finding their own path.
Lol some people have some really strange ideas about de Dao de Jing. It takes a lifetime of studying to understand, so clearly there are multiple layers and aspects to it. What's absolutely hilarious to me is that people later decided it was a good idea to build a dogmatic religion around it 🤷🏻♀️
If I agree with you, it's harassment. If I disagree with you, you'd block me. So, I'll just say imo you're one beautiful *slur* and I'm glad you're so humble to acknowledge&embrace your own limitations 🤍
there's a rather large difference between not wanting to engage in good faith with any alternative viewpoint and not wanting to engage with a single bad faith actor.
one is a misogynist refusing to listen to any feminist talking points because it's all woke and/or libtard and/or feminazi trash while the other is a minority telling someone to fuck themselves because they don't want to 'debate' their right to exist
the internet is just... Such a shitty venue for these conversations. I have friends in the real world who disagree with me. If someone is being nasty online I feel no compunction to spend the brainpower on them. Especially as I continue to struggle with the deluge of bad news and it's affect on my mental health.
completely agree. One thing I hope the federation gets to is as much fine grained control for the user as possible. One thing I like with trustcafe is they have this trust level. 0 is essentially block, 100 is essentially subscribe and the levels between will prioritize them in your feed one direction or another.