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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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.

[-] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 17 points 15 hours ago

But, but! You can change ~~the system~~ people from within by voting!

[-] texture@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 4 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] texture@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 6 points 8 hours ago

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.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 13 hours ago

To be fair, you're on an instance that blocks communist instances. Or do you mean defederation is better than individual blocking?

[-] texture@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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.

[-] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

but is defederated from porn instances.

I didn't know that, but that's great

[-] texture@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

thanks for this info, its appreciated.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 12 hours ago

No problem!

[-] hamid@crazypeople.online 1 points 14 hours ago

I do and I just blocked you

[-] texture@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

a pity you will never hear my sincere congratulations

[-] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] obamacares@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

what do you mean "low block limit"

[-] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] innermachine@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago

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!

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

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

Lol I thought I was drunk and posted this meme.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wait, I'm banned from here aren't I? Why am I even seeing this .ml community?

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 15 points 23 hours ago

Probably your ban expired, .ml rarily permabans

[-] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If this isn't a joke this is the most hilarious mix up I have ever seen

Edit:

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I hath been cancelled!

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why am I even seeing this .ml community?

Why do butthurt whiners keep asking this rhetorical question in our communities?

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

because you have to be super banned, not just ordinary banned. lol

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