Yeah it’s a very common misconception, I find it weird that people are still having it though when 0.19 is widely available.
Maybe they’re just saying it as a way to be dismissive of the issue, this kind of stuff happens often when people report or call to attention malicious instances or malicious users.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Honestly I think it’s just people that haven’t thought very deeply about the nature of communities they’re supporting.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
nor how letting a large, poorly moderated instance run wild can negatively affect discourse on the entire platform. Before Hexbear was defed’d on lemmy.ca, Lemmy was damn near unusable on many threads because of the spam and trolling. Blocking them doesn’t stop them from bothering those who haven’t and it affects the platform as a whole.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Blocking is not a real solution, it is putting a blanket over the problem and pretending it went away. People who suggest you do that are suggesting you enable bad faith actors by ignoring their behavior, as opposed to reporting it and/or making others aware so they can report it. We all need to work better to make the platform and spaces on it better, if no one works at it, nothing gets better.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Exactly! Letting problematic instances poison the well leads to a net negative to the platform.