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Do you feel this place has gotten more.. reddit-y lately?
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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If somebody develops that feature, they've said they'll merge it. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397#issuecomment-1658761077
I've tried not to block instances (or communities for that matter), because you never know what good communities may appear there at a later date. Instead I generally stick to viewing only my subscribed communities, while occasionally venturing out into Everything to see if there's anything good I've missed.
I guess it's like using Reddit front page vs using /r/all. I never liked /r/all, so doing it this way is much closer to my Reddit experience.
I guess the good thing is we can all tailor our experiences as we prefer :-)
Yeah, fair points. I like your idea about a threshold for posts getting through, that'd be clever if it could be made to work.
kbin has that feature!
When you block an instance on kbin does that mean users from that instance don't see your content at all when logged into that instance? That's something I've wanted in case in the future some instances federate with Meta, so I don't provide content for Meta users to see or interact with so they need to log out of Meta or sign up for another instance to view content.
I don't think so, it just prevents you from seeing that instance's content including their comments on your posts but not anything else
I think once that becomes a possibility it'll make defederation unnecessary. Especially when it comes to Meta, since that's really become the thing I've become more concerned about in the future than squabbles between currently existing instances.
This seems like such a (relatively) simple fix, I'm surprised it hasn't been implemented yet. I'm almost tempted to try writing a PR of my own at this point.
Yes .. yes .. more isolation, more bubbles..
You think people should be forced to see things they don't want to?
I'm not agreeing with the above, but it's nuanced. Content curation is a sliding scale that can create an echo chamber if one becomes too insular. On the internet especially where discourse can be inflammatory, avoiding some topics can shut you off from entire ideas that may otherwise be benign.
IMO create the experience you want, but build resilience and test your limits often. It's healthier for yourself and the internet as a community.
I'm very much in agreement with you. I think there's an important value in seeking out those you disagree with. If your values can't stand under scrutiny then you really do need to carefully consider them.
At the same time there's space between what you disagree with and what is harmful to your state of mind for most people. Plenty of people don't want to see anything NSFW and removing that is in no way turning their experience into a bubble.
Nuance is absolutely an important word here but I think the knee jerk isolation response to mention of blocking things is far more harmful than helpful.
it does seem to me that the people that whinge about bubbles are mostly people espousing reprehensible opinions, while ironically being most aligned with the people in the deepest conservative bubbles.
Gee I wonder what kind of opinion the person who down voted you has