Fediverse

Still rare, only trolls. If someone is judgy or confrontational I’ll move on. It’s only if they’re trying to start a fight, trying to create an ongoing argument that I’ll block them.

I use the Boost app, so I just tag users who are being annoying. I only rarely block someone.

I recommend a client that allows tags instead. I only block really toxic accounts.

trolls just get a label and they're usually at the bottom of most threads anyway.

Blocking people is good mental health practice.

Every month or so I go through and lurge my blocklist of all bht the most aggregious posters.

i'm a shithead whose opinions can change after a good exchange tho 🥺🥺

You’ve no obligation to socialize with everyone in real life, why should online be any different?

If someone is consistently annoying, rude or spouting noxious stuff, you’re perfectly reasonable in blocking them.

Interaction in written text online is still a fairly unnatural way for humans to communicate. It’s missing the depth that physical and aural clues provide.

Add to that the evidence that humans can’t really manage more than about 50 relationships makes these global forums too much for a person to really handle.

Block away. Trim your interactions to a manageable level.

I generally just tag users, I've blocked a few though

I blocked like that on reddit but here there's fewer users so I have a higher block threshold.

Plus I want to give people credit for choosing to be on the fediverse - that earns almost everyone a "well maybe you just had a bad day".

blocked

Kidding. I block BS and mean ness. If someone can express their point and let me express mine, I'm good. It's when people start insulting others to get their point out I just don't resonate with them and don't see a point of ever talking to them again.

I'd say there could be two styles:

• In one, you want to see the "real" unfiltered Internet, or try to not wrap yourself in information bubbles.
• In another, you make your Internet space more welcoming and inspiring.

Both have their merits, with the first improving your grip on real state of affairs, and the other stimulating you to be productive and positive, and being on the Internet as a place to enjoy life.

Personally, I go with the first, since I'm very concerned about how societal attitudes shift in the world. Granted, Lemmy itself is a bit of an echo chamber, but this is not the only place I hang around.

I block people who are clearly trolls and that one moron who signed all their posts with an anti-ai signature that does nothing because it was either that or get banned by the mods on .world because “I’m harassing them”.

It's better to hurt old people's feelings than allow them to continue to debase themselves with the false belief that they're competent.

It's possible to have a readily applicable standard for polite interactions when we're not divided by fascist rhetoric.

The way feminists relate to men's issues is often founded in a universalizing noxious ideology of feminism. Men shouldn't be feminists, they should be allies.

What I'm trying to say is: blocking isn't the reason that our politics have entered into toxic polarization, fascism is the reason for that. There's nothing really wrong with blocking.

Haven't felt the need to block anyone but it's nice to have the functionality