People have this weird dislike of the block button and anyone that uses it. I use it very frequently on any social media site I use in order to have a better experience. It was one of my bigger problems with Reddit cause it had an extremely low block limit.
The amount of users you can block was really low. From what I've looked up it's 1000 which is basically nothing. When I was using Twitter I had over 20k accounts blocked to better curate my experience.
Regular brain -> curating feed by subbing to comms and browse based on my subbed community
Big brain -> curating feed by browsing all and block the community I don't like
Galaxy brain -> curating feed by browsing all and getting banned from communities
They don't block .ml so they can spam "you're on .ml lol everyone you're talking to is an idiot/tankie/Sino-Russian bot" unprompted to anyone else who actually tries to engage in debate here. Acting like an edgelord with low effort dunks presumably also with a saviour complex of "guiding people who stumbled into the tankie zone back to the Western-liberal light" takes priority over actually blocking the people they hate and keep threatening to block.
Gotcha. Lemmy.world is defederated from Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net , so if you want a more general instance Lemmy.zip is probably more what you want. Alternatively, Lemmy.ml is federated with those two (and almost every other major instance), but is defederated from porn instances.
.world have been proven to subscribe people to israeli propaganda mailing list. A read about a guy who used unique email address for each subscription and he started recieving emails about israel from the one he used for .world.
thats an interesting example and i do appreciate it.
but unless you regularly block users bc you dont like what they said, then i didnt really mean you :) i could have been more clear with my original comment that i exclusively meant both those things, but i didnt think to at the time.
What's wrong with blockers users when you don't like what they say? If someone is spewing slurs you bet I'm blocking them. I don't need that in my life.
The longer and more thoroughly you do so, the less aware you are; after a while you can be quite out of touch with the people and world around you. You live in a society, and it's better to know your enemy than to be oblivious to them. Social networking with less social can be a hug box trap.
Nothing WRONG with doing it, however. It's your right to be anywhere on the scale between being very social and total isolation.
I feel like this presumes people don't have irl community and social networks. The Internet and social media isn't my only view into the world. People are their worst selves online because there is no duty of care to each other.
I think it's absurd to say that filtering your social media, something that inherently depends on engagement and algorithms, gives you a more narrow worldview. As if each social media doesn't have inherent bias.
That's exactly my point though. Neither you nor I know how much your comment annoyed him. Only he gets to decide how much of a thing he should tolerate online.
I have NSFW content filtered but I still block the anime feed and Church of Thighentology comms because they aren't NSFW but I still don't want to see sexualized anime images in my feed.
I block communities related to leather and eating animal flesh because I'm not really interested in seeing dead bodies.
Am I being goofy? Do I only get to explore what's new in the fedverse if I view sexualized or distressing material?
I always get the vibe it's an astroturf. A way to c convince leftist to further isolate themselves like 1700 Japan. It just makes these people turn into Trump like archetypes where you only surround yourself with people you agree with.
Because calling anything bad out means you're a communist, which means you're also a Tankie funded by China, who loves hamas, or whatever he says to deflect any thinking.
The latest chapter in the Chicago Dyke March controversy unfolded late last week after the group walked back its use of the term “Zio,” a pejorative brought into prominence by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and often deployed by white supremacists.
Antisemites use "zio" as a dog-whistle. They hide their antisemitism in antizionism.
There must be something in the Piefed code that makes the users just say the dumbest things, act smugly, and then say it's a mass conspiracy that no one likes them.
There is currently a comment thread in this very community full of hundreds of comments worth of liberals smugly refusing any and all invitations to engage with us.
But, but! You can change
the systempeople from within by voting!People have this weird dislike of the block button and anyone that uses it. I use it very frequently on any social media site I use in order to have a better experience. It was one of my bigger problems with Reddit cause it had an extremely low block limit.
what do you mean with "low block limit"
The amount of users you can block was really low. From what I've looked up it's 1000 which is basically nothing. When I was using Twitter I had over 20k accounts blocked to better curate my experience.
How much time does it take to accumulate 20k blocked accounts?! That's almost 20 a day every single day for 3 years Go touch some grass!
Id say there's a fair chance he's now blocked you 😅
Wait, I'm banned from here aren't I? Why am I even seeing this .ml community?
If this isn't a joke this is the most hilarious mix up I have ever seen
Edit:
I hath been cancelled!
because you have to be super banned, not just ordinary banned. lol
Why do butthurt whiners keep asking this rhetorical question in our communities?
Probably your ban expired, .ml rarily permabans
Big brain meme template:
Regular brain -> curating feed by subbing to comms and browse based on my subbed community Big brain -> curating feed by browsing all and block the community I don't like Galaxy brain -> curating feed by browsing all and getting banned from communities
They don't block .ml so they can spam "you're on .ml lol everyone you're talking to is an idiot/tankie/Sino-Russian bot" unprompted to anyone else who actually tries to engage in debate here. Acting like an edgelord with low effort dunks presumably also with a saviour complex of "guiding people who stumbled into the tankie zone back to the Western-liberal light" takes priority over actually blocking the people they hate and keep threatening to block.
Lol I thought I was drunk and posted this meme.
if a person thinks blocking users and communities they dont like is the way to curate their feed, i hope they block all the communities im in.
To be fair, you're on an instance that blocks communist instances. Or do you mean defederation is better than individual blocking?
im new to lemmy, so i was yet unaware of .world instance blocking communist instances. i'll look into that.
i think blocking is goofy, thats what i was trying to convey.
Gotcha. Lemmy.world is defederated from Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net , so if you want a more general instance Lemmy.zip is probably more what you want. Alternatively, Lemmy.ml is federated with those two (and almost every other major instance), but is defederated from porn instances.
thanks for this info, its appreciated.
No problem!
I didn't know that, but that's great
Yea I'd rather not have my social media experience intersperced with porn, haha.
.world have been proven to subscribe people to israeli propaganda mailing list. A read about a guy who used unique email address for each subscription and he started recieving emails about israel from the one he used for .world.
I don't doubt this, but do you have a source?
I saw the firsthand accounts of multiple people saying this happened to them. One of them was an ex mod and the other used unique address.
That's exactly how I curate my feed. Do you have any idea how many sports sublemmies my instance has? It's the Midwest. It was a lot.
thats an interesting example and i do appreciate it.
but unless you regularly block users bc you dont like what they said, then i didnt really mean you :) i could have been more clear with my original comment that i exclusively meant both those things, but i didnt think to at the time.
What's wrong with blockers users when you don't like what they say? If someone is spewing slurs you bet I'm blocking them. I don't need that in my life.
The longer and more thoroughly you do so, the less aware you are; after a while you can be quite out of touch with the people and world around you. You live in a society, and it's better to know your enemy than to be oblivious to them. Social networking with less social can be a hug box trap.
Nothing WRONG with doing it, however. It's your right to be anywhere on the scale between being very social and total isolation.
I feel like this presumes people don't have irl community and social networks. The Internet and social media isn't my only view into the world. People are their worst selves online because there is no duty of care to each other.
I think it's absurd to say that filtering your social media, something that inherently depends on engagement and algorithms, gives you a more narrow worldview. As if each social media doesn't have inherent bias.
id report and block someone using slurs, but ive never seen that on lemmy.
the op of this post blocked me for my comment. i didnt use any slurs.
What's the arbitrary line between avoiding people who use slurs vs people who annoy you and make your online experience worse?
I think it's mega presumptuous to judge what other people should tolerate online.
the OP blocked me for my opinion. if you dont think thats goofy, i dont know what to tell you.
That's exactly my point though. Neither you nor I know how much your comment annoyed him. Only he gets to decide how much of a thing he should tolerate online.
I have NSFW content filtered but I still block the anime feed and Church of Thighentology comms because they aren't NSFW but I still don't want to see sexualized anime images in my feed.
I block communities related to leather and eating animal flesh because I'm not really interested in seeing dead bodies.
Am I being goofy? Do I only get to explore what's new in the fedverse if I view sexualized or distressing material?
i come to lemmy to relax during my break at work, not to debate about weather or not we should carpet bomb civilians
well theres nothing to debate there. but since you brought it up, we shouldnt.
Tell that to your instance admins
i thought you said you didnt come here to talk about that stuff?
anwyay, i'll be selecting a new instance shortly.
You are right. Have a nice day buddy ♥️
I do and I just blocked you
a pity you will never hear my sincere congratulations
I always get the vibe it's an astroturf. A way to c convince leftist to further isolate themselves like 1700 Japan. It just makes these people turn into Trump like archetypes where you only surround yourself with people you agree with.
I thought getting banned for this reason is why .ml hates .world though?
"No u"
See, zero substance
No u.
Checkmate.
+10 piefed social credit
This really is a good bit lol
And +50 goat/mwog coins
Goat is now even defending Jordan, they're both ZioNazis. (And I'm saying this because Goat thinks Zionist is a slur made up by KKK members.)
He's also calling it a botted campaign
Because calling anything bad out means you're a communist, which means you're also a Tankie funded by China, who loves hamas, or whatever he says to deflect any thinking.
Solipsizing myself into pure brain-in-a-jar-theory speedrun
Oop, he's here now. Have fun with him before he says more Zionist propaganda and gets banned, while feigning ignorance. https://lemmy.world/post/44343477/22722887
Dot world is subscribing people to israeli propaganda mailing list.
Ah, more lies Eugene? This is what, your fifth alt now? please touch just one blade of grass
Where am I defending Jordan? I also don't think zionist is a slur, but the zio- perjorative is.
The Zio- pejorative has direct origins to David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, which he uses as a dogwhistle to describe Jews and the zog conspiracy.
Antisemites use "zio" as a dog-whistle. They hide their antisemitism in antizionism.
There must be something in the Piefed code that makes the users just say the dumbest things, act smugly, and then say it's a mass conspiracy that no one likes them.
Projection
"You're supposed to block us, not try to engage with us."
That's one hell of a take, sure.
That isn't what it says, try rereading it. I know it is hard to be literate.
if libs had even the barest reading comprehension then they wouldn't be libs anymore
There is currently a comment thread in this very community full of hundreds of comments worth of liberals smugly refusing any and all invitations to engage with us.
But... They said they are willing to listen, why would they be smug and ignore when they are wrong?