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What's wrong with blockers users when you don't like what they say? If someone is spewing slurs you bet I'm blocking them. I don't need that in my life.
id report and block someone using slurs, but ive never seen that on lemmy.
the op of this post blocked me for my comment. i didnt use any slurs.
What's the arbitrary line between avoiding people who use slurs vs people who annoy you and make your online experience worse?
I think it's mega presumptuous to judge what other people should tolerate online.
the OP blocked me for my opinion. if you dont think thats goofy, i dont know what to tell you.
That's exactly my point though. Neither you nor I know how much your comment annoyed him. Only he gets to decide how much of a thing he should tolerate online.
I have NSFW content filtered but I still block the anime feed and Church of Thighentology comms because they aren't NSFW but I still don't want to see sexualized anime images in my feed.
I block communities related to leather and eating animal flesh because I'm not really interested in seeing dead bodies.
Am I being goofy? Do I only get to explore what's new in the fedverse if I view sexualized or distressing material?
yeah i think blocking people for their opinion is goofy, i stand by that. i dont really want to argue about it. im glad you have the control in place to filter your feed in that manner.
The longer and more thoroughly you do so, the less aware you are; after a while you can be quite out of touch with the people and world around you. You live in a society, and it's better to know your enemy than to be oblivious to them. Social networking with less social can be a hug box trap.
Nothing WRONG with doing it, however. It's your right to be anywhere on the scale between being very social and total isolation.
I feel like this presumes people don't have irl community and social networks. The Internet and social media isn't my only view into the world. People are their worst selves online because there is no duty of care to each other.
I think it's absurd to say that filtering your social media, something that inherently depends on engagement and algorithms, gives you a more narrow worldview. As if each social media doesn't have inherent bias.