Fediverse

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.

Im a big block proponent although I don't block all that many people. I usually give people enough rope to hang themselves as the old saying goes. That being said I think people need to treat internet media like real life. Do you go to bars you hate or hang around annoying people? Likely not. This whole your going to be stuck in a bubble is sorta bs. Hang with who you want to and avoid you like. Thats just life.

I personally do not block. I have always hoped to see changes of heart in people I disagree with, and I also have been on much more abrasive communities, lemmy is kept relatively tidy (at least from my instance's point of view).

My blocked list on nextdoor is starting to max out. Have to block all the nazi's that live around me as they are a lost cause and just repeat constant propaganda.

My lemmy block list is zero and hope it will remain that way for a while. It's fairly tame discussions here and no real issues so far.

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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 block bad writers. It hurts my brain reading their work and I get sad.

I've never really felt the need to block anyone (except the odd spam bot but I don't think that counts). I think that might be because I pretty much exclusively browse my subscribed feed which means I basically only see posts that interest me, and I find any bad comments are usually heavily downvoted anyway. And its rare enough that I just ignore it.

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 haven't blocked anyone here, but on Tumblr I started unfollowing folks who posted about doom and gloom all the time. That site's more conducive to memes and TV show discussions than it is discussion about news/politics, and I don't like scrolling through a bunch of superhero memes and then getting hit with a post about the latest atrocity in the world. That stuffs important, but it's not healthy to fixate on it all the time.

It's important to curate what you're doing so that you dont fall into a doomscrolling trap or get ragebaited into arguments that go nowhere.

On Lemmy I usually block communities, if they are a drag in any way, like too negative, too weird, too much discussion of violence, etc. Didn't have to block individuals that much, but in smaller communities it's sometimes just an individual that makes it a drag, while most users post more pleasant things.

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

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

I've become massively hardened to online discourse. I don't need to block users when I can just ignore and not need to get the last word in. I know this is an incredibly rare ability, but I just wanted to entertain the idea here that there are alternatives.

The exception could be for discoverability. If garbage trolling spam overwhelms your front page, then it'll be too time consuming to wade through it.. So blocking entire communities makes a lot of sense in this case.

I don't ever want people I blocked to not be able to see my stuff when the account is public. It's just a weird limitation and gives a false sense of security. Though not being able to directly reply to things would be nice.

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.

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.

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