Comment on A little rant about lemmy.ml

• iknowkingfu@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I did that on reddit and it was pretty fascinating to see that some people really can be assholes one day and then be helpful and friendly the next, I would’ve never noticed had I not blocked them. I agree with you though, if someone acts like conversations on the internet is a place for them to vent their anger then I want nothing to do with them.

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  • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s interesting, not what I’d expect – but hey, everyone has their off days.

    In an online space with more of a community feel, it would probably be worth extending a little more grace and patience. Lemmy doesn’t have that feel to me, though. It feels like having random conversations with strangers with no continuity.

    I’ll admit, part of this is a pattern I started on reddit. I tried to curate my community list, but I made the – decision? mistake? – of including my city and state-specific subreddits. They were basically cesspits of racism and trolling compared to the good communities that I liked. There was also the increase in political propaganda bots over the years (not bad when I joined, terrible by time I left). I tried to avoid the worst offenders, but sometimes I’d get bored with my feed and click on the “all” feed. Bad idea.

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  • lemmyingly@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just ignore people who annoy me for the same reason. Either of us could be having a bad day or misunderstanding what the other is trying to communicate. It doesn’t mean they might not say something I want to read in the future - especially with smaller communities.

    I used to really like the RES extension so I could tag people just in case I come across them again in the future. Both positive and negative experiences with people.

    I’ve only blocked a handful of people like shallowboob (or whatever their name was) who karma farmed/karma bot and I just wasn’t interested anymore.

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