• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    They don’t block .ml so they can spam “you’re on .ml lol everyone you’re talking to is an idiot/tankie/Sino-Russian bot” unprompted to anyone else who actually tries to engage in debate here. Acting like an edgelord with low effort dunks presumably also with a saviour complex of “guiding people who stumbled into the tankie zone back to the Western-liberal light” takes priority over actually blocking the people they hate and keep threatening to block.

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    14 hours ago

    if a person thinks blocking users and communities they dont like is the way to curate their feed, i hope they block all the communities im in.

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      I always get the vibe it’s an astroturf. A way to c convince leftist to further isolate themselves like 1700 Japan. It just makes these people turn into Trump like archetypes where you only surround yourself with people you agree with.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s exactly how I curate my feed. Do you have any idea how many sports sublemmies my instance has? It’s the Midwest. It was a lot.

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        thats an interesting example and i do appreciate it.

        but unless you regularly block users bc you dont like what they said, then i didnt really mean you :) i could have been more clear with my original comment that i exclusively meant both those things, but i didnt think to at the time.

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          What’s wrong with blockers users when you don’t like what they say? If someone is spewing slurs you bet I’m blocking them. I don’t need that in my life.

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            The longer and more thoroughly you do so, the less aware you are; after a while you can be quite out of touch with the people and world around you. You live in a society, and it’s better to know your enemy than to be oblivious to them. Social networking with less social can be a hug box trap.

            Nothing WRONG with doing it, however. It’s your right to be anywhere on the scale between being very social and total isolation.

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              I feel like this presumes people don’t have irl community and social networks. The Internet and social media isn’t my only view into the world. People are their worst selves online because there is no duty of care to each other.

              I think it’s absurd to say that filtering your social media, something that inherently depends on engagement and algorithms, gives you a more narrow worldview. As if each social media doesn’t have inherent bias.

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      To be fair, you’re on an instance that blocks communist instances. Or do you mean defederation is better than individual blocking?

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    People have this weird dislike of the block button and anyone that uses it. I use it very frequently on any social media site I use in order to have a better experience. It was one of my bigger problems with Reddit cause it had an extremely low block limit.

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        The amount of users you can block was really low. From what I’ve looked up it’s 1000 which is basically nothing. When I was using Twitter I had over 20k accounts blocked to better curate my experience.

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          How much time does it take to accumulate 20k blocked accounts?! That’s almost 20 a day every single day for 3 years Go touch some grass!

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    Big brain meme template:

    Regular brain -> curating feed by subbing to comms and browse based on my subbed community Big brain -> curating feed by browsing all and block the community I don’t like Galaxy brain -> curating feed by browsing all and getting banned from communities

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    GOING ON A SELF-RIGHTEOUS COMMENT SPREE WITH ZERO SUBSTANCE, GETTING BANNED, AND
    THEN CRYING ABOUT IT.

    I thought getting banned for this reason is why .ml hates .world though?

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    “You’re supposed to block us, not try to engage with us.”

    That’s one hell of a take, sure.