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Social media split and modified people so much they're often immediately feeling threatened and block that out, imo.

I'm quite happy to have had some discussions (!) on lemmy where I or the other person could explain the view or clear the (mis)understanding and both be wiser people afterwards.

Because you can go through your whole life with zero negative social corrections. It's a low trust, collapse of society thing

It's how society is degenerating. Respect for each other is gone. The bullets have started to fly.

I'll try to be civil and will ask clarifying questions.

However, as soon as I see someone both-sides-ing, I block them.
Ain't got no time for their "can't we all just get along, kumbaya" centrist bullshit anymore. No we can't "just get along", the overton window has gone too far to the right for that.
You have actual Nazis running shit now, or attempting to run things in other nations.

We need to fight them, the time for "understanding" is over.

Cognitive dissonance.

Even when someone says some stupidly egregious shit, or uses thorns instead of th, its way easier to block them than try to understand that however stupid and misguided they may be that there is a person on the other side who may actually have a point somewhere u Herbert the radicalization and between the five brainless they have.

I think blocking is justified when someone actually means you personal physical harm in some way, but that so rarely ever happens.

Most people have egg shell personalities and blocking is their defense mechanism.

Sometimes they even post it to re affirm themselves... It looks pathetic.

Blocking is useful in creating an echo chamber but I don't think that's the intent, just a "positive" outcome the again reaffirms the eggashell personality

Because people online are jerks

I blocked pretty freely on Twitter till I left the site around when I got the Bluesky invite. I still block freely on there, but not Reddit or Lemmy. I didn't on Reddit cause there was a cap on how many accounts you can have blocked and Lemmy doesn't handle blocks in a way I like so I just don't bother. I like being able to curate my experience and the experience others that interact with me have. I got no energy for shit stains so blocking is easier than constantly knowing they exist.

I think the only thing that has really changed is that way more people just talk about who and what they block instead of just blocking and moving on.

Yeah, you are missing context. I can tell right away when someone is arguing from bad faith or spewing propaganda. I don't report, I just block.

You don't want to get blocked, I get it. You think it is some failing in people but it is just you who is failing to understand other people's decisions.

You are thinking about this from your very naive point of view. You are being very disingenuous painting everyone who blocks as someone who is not interested in conversation especially with people who don't agree with them.

While I am sure this happens there is another side to this which is just people blocking obvious trolls for their mental health. I am never going to convince an incel to stop hating women. There is no point in talking to them.