I'm the same way. I don't block people I disagree with but my tolerance for assholes is quite low. I block multiple people each day and have been doing so for over a year. When I see a thread about Elon or Trump for example I just go in and find all the most toxic commentors there and block them. Again, not because I disagree but because I don't want to see incivil assholes in my feed. If I see someone write mean comments I assume that's what they do and I want nothing to do with them. Currently my blocklist is around 600 users long.
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Blocking is for the weak. Subscribe to the content you want to see and (mostly) only look at your subscriptions.
The only things I have blocked are porn communities/instances.
I partly agree. However seeing blocking as weak is just not cool. Blocking can help. I block some stuff too, but very rarely.
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