Either OP is a genius or a moron, or both
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Granddaughter was the first one to get blocked!
Welcome to OP’s blocklist.
As much as I love Lemmy, this platform would be unusable without the option to block astroturfers and bad faith actors.
Enh, I haven’t blocked anyone and I’m getting along fine.
I have however blocked all the porn and furry shit. I don’t need that coming up while I’m scrolling at work.
I haven’t blocked people.
I do extremely liberally block communities, though. I need all with the lower volume here and there’s a lot I’m just not interested in.
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I used to worry that it was a losing strategy, because if I don’t block them then they will have unfettered access to the new people of the Internet. But then I started to think it doesn’t matter, I’d rather have my own mental health.
Unfortunately lemmy is a lot less active when you ban afford Assholes, muck rakers, and people just looking for fights.
But that kind of activity is noise and pollution, it is better to talk less but with sane people
sane ppl are boring. fite me 😼
That’s not how you use this template
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Grandma blocked the turd that always condescendingly tells her “ok sure whatever”, so she’s fucking silent now
Nobody cares
screw you! you suck! (I’m not old yet, must argue)
You know you are wise when you just scrolled passed it and understand that the opinions of strangers do not matter to you.
My block list lags my browser
It’s good for your mental health, but bad for lemmy in general. Those people need to be called out on their shit, downvoted and banned if necessary.
Compare it to those scam emails that are written in bad english to weed out the people too intelligent to fall for it.
They prefer you banning them, so they can influence the people listening more easily.
A proper return to ‘Don’t Feed the Trolls’
I often comment offering info on the subjects I know, and found that when an asshole is arguing I don’t need to answer when i know I’m right. Other commenters will back me up naturally by agreeing. (unless i’m wrong of course)
So in most cases unless you are just spreading lies, someone else will correct the assholes. This kinda removes the stress of troll replies i find
