DreadedChalupacabra

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It NEEDS the ability to block entire instances as an individual user.

It's a glaring problem that I noticed nearly instantly, Lemmy is currently very off-putting because of how some people from one very specific server interact with everyone around them. 90% of the people on here are great, that 10% is already making me second-guess being here without a custom server.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TBF a lot of the backlash against the protest on reddit also boils down to "it doesn't matter to me, so it's not needed". Fact is if moderation is done right you don't notice it. I add new t-shirt bot spam sites to auto-mod the second I come across them, for example, so they only ever get posted once.

Reddit has had css since before the Digg migration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's definitely gonna happen. I might end up just setting up a server first and doing it that way, it feels like the easiest way to go about things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wall street silver.

I can't tell you how many of those people I've had to ban from various subs just because they wander in and alt-right the place up. EVERY SINGLE PERSON I've banned for hate speech posted there. Literally all of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a catch 22. In order for a sub to stay good, it needs mods that are iron fisted with keeping out content that doesn't fit. When you do that, the community hates you for deleting their posts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I tried. Can't join any of them. This was actually my 10th server I signed up for and it finally let me in. The rest mention a validation email that never comes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Blocking features exist for that reason

Cool, where's the button to block lemmy.ml and lemmygrad?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We can't block them and they commingle with communities we do want to see. It's impossible not to participate when it's absolutely everywhere. My first thought when I came to Lemmy was "Wow, this is a better reddit." An hour later? "Wow, this is just a tankie site."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I see your point and raise you the fact that I shouldn't have to deal with people who legitimately want me dead. And a lot of tankies unironically unapologetically do. Same thing I say to the alt-right applies: Free speech isn't a guarantee of a platform and it absolutely doesn't mean anyone has to listen to you.

I'm gonna fill up my block list in about a day at this rate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish. Beehaw isn't sending out confirmation emails and I can't find any other ones that block the tankies.

Like I don't mind communists and socialists, they tend to be great people. But this? "hey everyone come over from reddit! You TOO can be insulted constantly for not adoring Soviet Russia!" It's an AWFUL look.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's interesting how the tankies and the neocons always immediately run screaming to calling everyone who disagrees with them a pedophile. It's almost like y'all have a lot in common.

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