Fediverse

I have blocked a few communities which I have really enjoyed. I think there is definitely a different but freeing experience to be in charge of curating your experience instead of algorithms doing it for you. It's more work but the freedom is nice but making the constant choice feels hard.

By all means, use the block feature to remove stressors if it helps.

For me personally, unless someone is actively haranguing me in DMs I'd rather not block them. Sure people can place comments that get me riled up. Or sometimes they seem downright hostile. Maybe they're having a bad day, you can't say. But it goes both ways, if I'm tired or having a bad day I could be misinterpreting people's comments and blocking them for no reason.

If a comment is so bad/rude it becomes rule-breaking I'd rather report it and have a moderator tell them off, it might be a valuable lesson for them or if they are repeat offenders the mods can dish out appropriate punishment. This keeps the instance and community in question healthy.

Block users and instances (although blocking instances just blocks the topic posts from that instance, not all the users from that instance).

I use the block button like hideki kamiya uwu

Thank you! I try to exercise caution for myself of am I just off put by this or is this truly uncessary behavior, and I'm glad the option to judge for myself is available.

have the social skills of a Nausicaan

Play Domjot?

What I read to do is to call them out, report them, then block them. They need to know they’re being mean.

Thanks for reminding the people arguing with me, personally im going to just let them deal with me

Block is useless on lemmy. They can still cause a nuisance. Just becuase you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there..