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On some conversations you might be better off seeing the score. Some people will agree in terms of a vote but aren't going to back you up in the comments. I've had a few conversations where the comments are demoralizing and the score shows me I'm reaching at least some people (or vise versa).
Also, something I learned from Twitter and Reddit after engaging with people too much ... sometimes the right answer is just to use the block button liberally and call it a day. Some people are not interested in discussion or good faith debate they just want to yell at people on the Internet and feel smart.
I had a person I bumped into saying (all of this paraphrasing) "the press has gone to shit" because of a headline and I was like "can we not be so dramatic this is a small website, surely a bad headline from a small operation is not a new thing" then they responded with "how many headlines do you see with X Y or Z even in those mainstream outlets? It's all gone to shit." I ran a few searches and found a rate of about 1 article per paper per year that met their alleged example... And then they said that was malicious compliance, I'd ignored their argument, and I wasn't acting in good faith... Like mate, I just literally took 15 minutes to check your claim out and came back to tell you; how much more good faith do you want? That was a block, that person is clearly a total waste of time, and I don't want to interact with their "doomerism."
In a sense it's a blessing lemmy is kind of small because blocking one loud person that has a lot of opinions that irritate you can go a long way.
I was definitely feeling this way a couple weeks ago ... ironically the worst was the weekend my birthday fell on. It just felt like everything I came across was a hot take lacking nuance.
It comes and goes... Some weeks people can/will surprise you. Some topics... I think it's better to just leave the mob alone and let them have their echo chamber.
Yeah I'm very familiar with the block button. Some might say even petty. My blocklist is around 600 users long.
I basically block everyone who demonstrate the incapability to have a civil discussion aswell as people that only shitpost. If someone posts something like "Fuck Elon" or "ACAB" etc. it's instant block from me. Not because I disagree but because I'm not interested in seeing those kind of comments in my feed and I think it's safe to assume that users who write comments like that likely aren't interested in any kind of deep discussions or intellectual honesty.
It's a blunt weapon and I'm knowingly filtering out a lot of valuable comments on other topics aswell but I don't care. So far it doesn't seem to affect the flow of new content in any way. Every now and then I notice a blocked person commenting something and I log out to see what it is and more often than not I'm satisfied with my decision to block.
Relatable