Not sure you should block fast on Lemmy and its derivatives. Fedi in general, really. It’s a mute at best.
Honestly, for such a well intentioned meme I’m surprised by the general icky feel I get from it. I think these general advisory things based on a world that is still super into social media and terminally online may feel outdated now. You may just want the being kind part somewhere not on the Internet.
No, it’s more the other way around. You can’t block. Blocked posts/people still exist attached to your post, they can keep seeing your posts and replying to them, I’m pretty sure. All blocking does here is keep you from seeing what the blocked person is doing, but it doesn’t affect them in any way.
I guess it’s an expedient way to make them think you’re super passive aggressive. So… like a mute button.
I am not advocating muting over blocking. I am saying blocking here sucks, so “block fast” isn’t particularly useful. I’m confused about what part is confusing.
Ah, I see, initially it read to me like you were saying that you shouldn’t block people at all on the fediverse, not that blocking tools for it suck. I’ve had people be weird as hell about ever blocking anyone for any reason when I’ve posted stuff like this in the past.
Well, for one thing because I’d like to know if my threads are a cesspool and to be able to do something about it.
If I have some random obsessive online stalker that is posting the most grotesque crap systematically on all my posts and interfering with everybody else I want to know and I want to report them so this person can get moderated for everybody, not just me, instead of having them scare people off from my threads without my knowledge.
I like how Bluesky handles this. They have a turboblock nuclear button. If you block someone not only do they lose the ability to see your stuff, their posts de-thread everything under them. Nobody can keep going up the chain of their posts to find yours or keep arguing in your thread without your knowledge. With that feature set, absolutely block fast. You’re effectively doing moderation there.
Here you can cover your ears, but not everybody else’s and you have no control about moderation of any kind unless you own your instance AND the instance of the person you want to moderate. Muting is a last resort to make it not your problem, but not a solution.
Not sure you should block fast on Lemmy and its derivatives. Fedi in general, really. It’s a mute at best.
Honestly, for such a well intentioned meme I’m surprised by the general icky feel I get from it. I think these general advisory things based on a world that is still super into social media and terminally online may feel outdated now. You may just want the being kind part somewhere not on the Internet.
AFAIK lemmy has no mute function, maybe some apps do? You can mute threads on Piefed, but not people.
No, it’s more the other way around. You can’t block. Blocked posts/people still exist attached to your post, they can keep seeing your posts and replying to them, I’m pretty sure. All blocking does here is keep you from seeing what the blocked person is doing, but it doesn’t affect them in any way.
I guess it’s an expedient way to make them think you’re super passive aggressive. So… like a mute button.
If the block is a mute and you’re advocating muting over blocking them I’m not really seeing what the issue is.
I am not advocating muting over blocking. I am saying blocking here sucks, so “block fast” isn’t particularly useful. I’m confused about what part is confusing.
Ah, I see, initially it read to me like you were saying that you shouldn’t block people at all on the fediverse, not that blocking tools for it suck. I’ve had people be weird as hell about ever blocking anyone for any reason when I’ve posted stuff like this in the past.
Why would you not want to mute fast? I feel like muting fast is even better than blocking fast.
Well, for one thing because I’d like to know if my threads are a cesspool and to be able to do something about it.
If I have some random obsessive online stalker that is posting the most grotesque crap systematically on all my posts and interfering with everybody else I want to know and I want to report them so this person can get moderated for everybody, not just me, instead of having them scare people off from my threads without my knowledge.
I like how Bluesky handles this. They have a turboblock nuclear button. If you block someone not only do they lose the ability to see your stuff, their posts de-thread everything under them. Nobody can keep going up the chain of their posts to find yours or keep arguing in your thread without your knowledge. With that feature set, absolutely block fast. You’re effectively doing moderation there.
Here you can cover your ears, but not everybody else’s and you have no control about moderation of any kind unless you own your instance AND the instance of the person you want to moderate. Muting is a last resort to make it not your problem, but not a solution.
Block/mute k
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