Every day, I see absolutely moronic comments getting upvoted while perfectly reasonable takes are downvoted. This would be a great opportunity to curate your feed by blocking these users en masse. Active curation like this is the only way to make social media even half-tolerable.
Whether you use it to filter out toxic users or to build an echo chamber, I think everyone should be free to do so. No one should be forced to share space with people they feel bring no value to the discussion - or, worse, make it more toxic.
We got 50k users and every other day we have people bitching how they need more blocking features.
I want to post shit publicly but also chose and pick who can see and not see what i posted and who cant and cant react to my shit posts.
Main character syndrome?
At least you postet this in the right community.
I assume you aren’t trolling, so here is what will happen when implemented: After about two weeks you will have blocked everyone who isn’t you, your alt accounts or a bot.
“Creating an echo chamber” is said a lot when people talk about blocking, banning and defederating. Sometimes it is justified, sometimes it’s utter bullshit. What you suggest, blocking people because you don’t like how they vote, is beyond bonkers. And I say this as someone who at times can be quite trigger happy with the block feature.
PS: “Everyone but me is a moron” is the mark of the moron.
Sounds like projection…
After about two weeks you will have blocked everyone who isn’t you, your alt accounts or a bot.
Why is this an issue for you?
It’s an issue for society.
Why?
Why are you in a online community if you want to be alone?
It’s right in his manifesto. He’s being FORCED to share space with all us undesirables.
Filthy casuals
Why do you assume I want to be alone?
Blocking this, banning that. The result will be a bunch of filter bubbles where people only see what confirms and validates their own prejudices. Echo chambers, as you call them. I agree that this is a better scenario than a cesspool of cynicism and hate and negativity, but surely we can do better.
If the objective is incentivizing good behavior, here’s another idea: reward upvoting and make it costly to downvote. Details TBD but other forums have done it and it works.
I can already block entire instances along with every single user there. I don’t see why I should care if that’s what someone wants to do.
OK but there are people you just don’t want to see and that shouldn’t be able to bother you. Just because you project what you would do on others doesn’t mean that others will do that. The current block on Lemmy is just a hide feature, every other social media has a working block feature.
A echo chamber comes when toxic assholes can troll normal people out of Lemmy, wich is the current state of matter.
[meta] that’s it. i’m confused again if i should upvote or downvote in this community. upvoting gives op just more visibility for their shenanigans. so now i’ll just block the whole stupid community. i’m sick of every day being opposite day.
I think it just needs to make a actually working block feature where a blocked person doesn’t see your content anymore and isn’t allowed to comment/vote on it.
I’m not necessarily against that either but personally I couldn’t care less if a blocked person can see my posts and comments. There’s even one commenting on this thread. What I use the feature for is to get them out of my sight. If they want to write me angry comments that I’ll never see, then have at it.
personally couldn’t care less if a blocked person can see my posts and comments.
OK
There’s even one commenting on this thread. What use the feature for is to get them out of my sight.
Contradiction to the statement before
If they want to write me angry comments that never see, then have at it.
No, when someone is blocked the person shouldn’t be able to spread shit.
Contradiction to the statement before
How so?
You say you don’t care and yet you know about it and say it
Well yeah, I can see that the thread has received more replies than what I’m seeing.
Also, even if I did see their comments, I don’t see how it contradicts my statement about how I don’t care if they see mine.
Good point
You can use Mbin to see upvotes
