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I've recently turned into a blocker. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I always felt like it was wrong to block an account unless it was smth absolutely insane. Nazis etc.

But now I'm blocking people who's tone I dont like, or who are baiting or actingnin bad faith.

I know I can't do it as a mod. But i can certainly do it as an individual now. Judgy comment? Blocked. Unnecessarily confrontational? Blocked.

This is new to me, literally 3 days. Wonder how this affects my feed. Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can't see it. I wish they couldn't see anything I posted either.

What are your blocking habits? If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?

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[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I only block communities for now. And my instance blocks a lot of ... debate heavy instances.

Regarding blocking of individuals: feel free to do that, if it helps you having a better time, that is perfectly fine.

But I started tagging strange people if I think that something they said is not correct. Then later I randomly see them somewhere else behaving normally. So my current plan is tag them first to see if I find this one person repulsive again and if so then block them. This way it is less carpet bombing and I accept that everybody can have a bad day where they lash out.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I mainly block communities that only repost subreddits automatically. I don’t get the point of these.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I block communities and bots and obvious trolls.

My feed is perfectly fine without them. And the communities I block are the ones that I don't want to see or know anything about like fucking politics and news.

[–] LikeableLime@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

This is what I do. I tag users and see if their behavior is a pattern or just a one off