Blocking keeps my feed nice. See people being assholes? Block them. See a post discussing something I don’t want to hear about? Block them. See a community I don’t want to hear about? Block them. The greatest thing about social media is the ability to never have to interact with someone again at no detriment to them. Blocking is good.
I recently asked for block recommendations to see more content that I can engage with and I had a reply from someone saying that if I was that upset with the internet, I should stop using it.
You can guess what happened next!
Blocking is for the weak. Subscribe to the content you want to see and (mostly) only look at your subscriptions.
The only things I have blocked are porn communities/instances.
I partly agree. However seeing blocking as weak is just not cool. Blocking can help. I block some stuff too, but very rarely.
However seeing blocking as weak
That was the yoke.
“yoke”?
Joke but with a y
oh ok
I’m kinda weird about this - I will block some folks that I feel are toxic, but some folks I put tags on just to see where they pop up. Sometimes I’ve been too quick to judge people, and most times I definitely judged correctly. So I use tags to stage people for blocking, lol.
I wish Lemmy natively supported the tagging feature you mention but I’m otherwise pretty happy with the web interface. I generally keep app downloads to a minimum. Which app do you use, I hear people mention the tagging feature more and more lately.
Why block them when you can just not argue with them?
