The problem with such a “block”, applied by the base Lemmy web UI or an app like Voyager that merely applies the same, is that it only mutes communities - which is basically the same as unsubscribing from each one individually (except it does save you some time, and affects newly created ones, and also visibility while browsing the All feed).
The actual users from those instances can still harass you, making comments, triggering notifications, voting on your content, etc. I made the mistake of replying to a comment in [email protected] and another one somewhere in Lemmygrad.ml and each time I received notifications for WEEKS and WEEKS afterwards, long after I stopped responding.
I almost quit the Fediverse entirely as a result. That is not what I signed up for. Btw browsing by All doesn’t show the sidebar of ChapoTrapHouse, nor of hexbear.net. How was I supposed to know!? What I did see was the sidebar of such places as Lemmy.World and Discuss.Online which is… well, more than a little different focus (remember the human and all of that).
Like porn, I think such content as is in [email protected] should be properly labeled so that people aren’t taken by surprise, going in there unawares. THEY can do whatever they want, but why are WE federating that content to the entire world - without such a label having been applied?
Yeah, it’s genuinely a problem when you just want to not see entire instances based on the userbase they culminate. I wish blocking instances would actually block the users associated with it, but alas.
I’ve taken to blocking everyone @lemmy.ml on sight since every time I see them it’s some vitriolic rant about how trans people are class traitors or some other weird shit I don’t wanna see, but it is a bit of extra effort and annoyance each time a new one pops up.
The problem with such a “block”, applied by the base Lemmy web UI or an app like Voyager that merely applies the same, is that it only mutes communities - which is basically the same as unsubscribing from each one individually (except it does save you some time, and affects newly created ones, and also visibility while browsing the All feed).
The actual users from those instances can still harass you, making comments, triggering notifications, voting on your content, etc. I made the mistake of replying to a comment in [email protected] and another one somewhere in Lemmygrad.ml and each time I received notifications for WEEKS and WEEKS afterwards, long after I stopped responding.
I almost quit the Fediverse entirely as a result. That is not what I signed up for. Btw browsing by All doesn’t show the sidebar of ChapoTrapHouse, nor of hexbear.net. How was I supposed to know!? What I did see was the sidebar of such places as Lemmy.World and Discuss.Online which is… well, more than a little different focus (remember the human and all of that).
Like porn, I think such content as is in [email protected] should be properly labeled so that people aren’t taken by surprise, going in there unawares. THEY can do whatever they want, but why are WE federating that content to the entire world - without such a label having been applied?
Yeah, it’s genuinely a problem when you just want to not see entire instances based on the userbase they culminate. I wish blocking instances would actually block the users associated with it, but alas.
I’ve taken to blocking everyone @lemmy.ml on sight since every time I see them it’s some vitriolic rant about how trans people are class traitors or some other weird shit I don’t wanna see, but it is a bit of extra effort and annoyance each time a new one pops up.