I found that things became much more pleasant on here when I blocked hexbear. I recently blocked lemmy.ml as well, but I may reverse that if I find that I’m missing too much good content.

I’m open to other ideas on how to mostly avoid people who love conflict or argue in bad faith.

  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
    318·
    3 months ago

    Lemmy.ml and hexbear were the first two I blocked and have zero regrets.

    I blocked a few others because the content didn’t interest me and my preference is to browse on All instead of Subscribed so I can find content in communities I did not know existed. For example I blocked lemmynsfw because I didn’t want the content to come up while browing in public.

    I wish there was an additional option to block all users of an instance separate from the instance block that applies to communities.

    • Zirconium@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 months ago

      Not to kinkshame/judge (while judging) but lemmynsfw is super weird. There’s like 50 celebrity or more communities all ran by one guy who uploads like one picture or 50 in a row. I just browse by all but the NSFW filter protects me from seeing a celebrity every 10th post.

      • Usually_Lurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        That’s why I run 2 different Lemmy apps. One for work and regular browsing. And a second one for those fun NSFW times.

    • shottymcb@lemm.ee
      61·
      3 months ago

      I just blocked individual hexbear and lemmygrad users that were annoying (posting pig anuses or dogpiling/gish galloping/whatabouting). Took a lot of blocking, but a few hundred blocks later later, most of the hexbears and tankies left are pretty chill. I don’t want to end up in a bubble and only hear opinions I already agree with. I think I did block one far right instance entirely, cause I don’t value the ideas of bigots and fascists. Can’t remember who it was though.

      • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
        310·
        3 months ago

        I don’t want to end up in a bubble and only hear opinions I already agree with. I think I did block one far right instance entirely, cause I don’t value the ideas of bigots and fascists.

        Hmmmmm

        Edit: Apparently tankie bullshit is fine!

    • SatyrSack@lemmy.one
      51·
      3 months ago

      I wish there was an additional option to block all users of an instance separate from the instance block that applies to communities.

      I have thought about that and wondered: how would child comments under a blocked user be handled? If I was on Instance_A and able to block Instance_B to no longer see comments from those users, what about the other Instance_A users (who have not blocked Instance_B) who reply to Instance_B comments on an Instance_A thread? Would I still see those Instance_A comments, and the Instance_B comments in the comment chain just appear blank or something? Or would the entire comment chain, starting at the Instance_B comment, just not get displayed to you at all?