It’s not enough that you ignore views you don’t like, you must apparently stop everyone else on the same instance(s) as you from seeing these views. For our protection and safety, I assume?
Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months agoI don’t think that’s a good solution. If I personally block an instance they can still see my comments and posts and have full conversations alongside them that everybody except me can read. I reserve blocking for genuine harrasment, not horrible ideas in general. I’d rather be part of the discussion and use that to build a case for defederation if it’s really so bad I’d want to block them.
hark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I just don’t have the time or energy to deal with the toxic behaviour of those people. I don’t run an instance, the one I use doesn’t block others, but I block some instances for my personal account. Nothing wrong with that.
hark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nothing wrong with blocking instances yourself. My issue is with people who take it upon themselves to mount a campaign to block instances for all other users on an instance.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I have an issue with people who mount a campaign to stop defederation regardless of who it’s targeting.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
sigh
All together now:
“If users don’t like that their instance has defederated from someone then they can migrate their accounts.”
I have yet to see a real answer to this from people who concern troll about defederation.
hark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or, more simply, if you don’t like the instance then you can block it yourself. That’s what the feature is for. It’s not concern trolling to point out that I don’t want people like you choosing which instances I get to see from which instances I use.
It’s much easier for you to use the block feature as intended instead of you screaming at instance maintainers to censor content for everyone on that instance you don’t like and making people create accounts all over different instances just because you can’t handle a different opinion. Why needlessly fracture the fediverse because of your personal preferences?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
sigh
“Blocking is a band-aid that doesn’t remove the problem community from interacting with your community at large, which is how you limit the ability of that community to spread their harmful behaviour.”
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s fair. I’m a filthy casual and thus blocking instances works fine for me (3 so far). User comments from those instances are shown to me with a spoiler tag and when I click on them I can still see them and even comment on them. But I’m happy that posts from those instances don’t show up in my feed.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
User comments from those instances are shown to me with a spoiler tag and when I click on them I can still see them and even comment on them.
That’s actually a pretty good solution, I didn’t realise it worked like that.
Maybe instance blocking is a solution I can use in that case…
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Agreed, and I think defederation from Lemmy.ml is overdue.
They’re a toxic mouthpiece for authoritarian governments pretending to be communists, especially the CCP but also the Kremlin. They’re the reason I won’t even admit to anyone that I use Lemmy.
I had an old account I abandoned because they followed me around and downvoted everything I posted. Most of it was funny memes I was posting to help Lemmy grow.
They’re the same trashy people as Hexbear but with a nicer mask and surrounded by legitimate users who don’t realize what’s going on.