Comment on Blocked instances question

jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CoderKat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  IMO it’s not a good solution to just say “just block the bigots”. The problem is that for new users, they are going to see those bigoted posts. They’re going to either think that’s what kind of site Lemmy is and potentially leave, or they’ll potentially get pulled in by the bigots. Both are bad situations.

  Especially for blatant bigotry, it makes perfect sense to take measures to ensure that the site is safe for everyone by default, without every individual person having to take action (especially those without accounts or not signed in).

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  • melmc@freeatlantis.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    @CoderKat

    I guess you define “safe” as “never being exposed to an opinion that offends you”. Good luck with that standard. It seems entirely subjective.

    cc: @jonne @fr0g

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    • fr0g@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re strawmanning so hard here, it’s an actual fire hazard.

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      • stilgar@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They are correct though, it is subjective and it will shift over time as the “acceptable” political lines change over time.

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  • mwguy@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So lemmy needs a “soft” block. A system that moderates it out of the default streams, but allows an individual user to still add communities they want to see in their subscriptions.

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• fr0g@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Only if you use the right apps. Lemmy itself doesn’t have any instance blocking yet.

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