I went on a blocking spree several weeks ago, and suddenly, most of the conversations on the topic were magically allowed to have nuance. Only had to block 8 or 9 instigators who were apparently the ones derailing every conversation.
I have a block list of about 40 thats taken a year to curate, and yes, Lemmy has been absolutely fantastic since I filled it out. It's like wearing noise canceling headphones.
On reddit, blocking people was pretty useless long-term. It did get the more aggressive assholes to leave you alone, at least, but there are SO MANY awful people on that site that trying to block them all is like trying to stop a tidal wave with your hand.
Spend enough time in the comments and you'll notice a handful of "usual suspects" sticking out. So I'll usually look at their profiles to see their history. If a pattern emerges, block them.
They're usually ones that immediately jump to extremes, make bad faith comparisons right off the bat, or otherwise Godwin's Law a comment thread between 0 and 1 replies in.
It honestly astonishes me that even only the christians in that city are so at each other's throats that they can't even agree to move a fucking ladder, can only imagine how big the grudges are between faiths.
I'm all for the Palestinian people getting their freedom and lives back and stopping the Israeli government dead in its tracks if not replacing it, but I'm not going to pretend that Hamas is innocent. Just because the Palestinians are victims of the worst crime of this century, doesn't mean the governing body that rules over them with an iron fist is good.
Eh? You know all Hamas has been doing for the past decade is yeeting unguided missiles at Israel. Sometimes they land in Gaza and kill Palestinians, most of them get intercepted, occasionally one makes it through and lands on a random building. That is the definition of an indiscriminate terrorist attack. It serves no military purpose whatsoever. If Hamas had the firepower they would kill every last Jewish person in Israel.