There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them.
After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren’t getting the downvotes they deserved.
Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I’m worried that if we’re all blocking shitty users that we’re just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.
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I’d say be sure to report them and then block them
That way the mods can see them to do something about them and you don’t have to see their hateful stuff before they earn a ban
The vast majority of users I block don’t break the rules. It’s usually that I see a low-effort comment so I open their profile and if their post history indicates they’re providing nothing of a value here I block them to improve the noise to signal ratio on my feed. It’s not about wether I agree with them or not but are they making any sense.
“Sorry queer folk, you can’t block the people who want you dead, because it’s important that you see their hate so you know it exists” (as if they we didn’t already know)
I know for my instance they get full bans. It’s a small instance, but make sure you report people. Mods see it and will ban them from entire instances. They can go be angry trolls on someone else’s server.
Imo blocked users get less engagement, therefore it helps to some degree.
Also, unlike reddit, it’s somewhat difficult to browse the Fediverse without being logged in.I’d guess that if any problematic content does slip through, it reaches a much smaller audience than if it were to slip through on reddit just because of how things are decentralized here.edit: I tried it again and I now agree that it is easier to browse with an account. I saw a lot more content than the first time I tried it ~2 months ago
