I’ve blocked more subs and people than what I have subscribed to. I don’t agree with the lemmy hive mind when it comes to politics so I had to block every person and sub that pushes a political agenda in order to enjoy the platform, it took a while and new subs and/or people show up now and then but now my feed is just the things I want to see.
Sadly that also ment blocking a lot of subs that would have been interesting had not 95% of the posts been actually pushing a political agenda instead of being either news or a discussion about something non political
I don’t mind explicitly political news, or even actual political communities, but nonetheless I feel you there bc when a community like memes explicitly asks to not include political matters, but then it gets inundated with political themed non-memes, it is highly annoying to see how little consent actually matters.
Whatever a community sets out to do, the rules should matter to people, but sadly there are a very large number of those for whom consent means nothing, apparently, only what they can get away with bullying a moderation team into accepting.
I kept switching instances - first as Kbin.social stopped working and then due to extreme slowness and connectivity issues at others - so I found it easier to block whole instances than individuals. That leaves me unable to communicate with some people on those instances who might be worthwhile, but that is a trade-off that I am willing to make since I found the interactions with people on those instances overwhelmingly negative, as in I would rather have left the Fediverse entirely than have to put up with that, though now that instance blocks exist I am glad to have that option instead:-).
I’ve blocked more subs and people than what I have subscribed to. I don’t agree with the lemmy hive mind when it comes to politics so I had to block every person and sub that pushes a political agenda in order to enjoy the platform, it took a while and new subs and/or people show up now and then but now my feed is just the things I want to see.
Sadly that also ment blocking a lot of subs that would have been interesting had not 95% of the posts been actually pushing a political agenda instead of being either news or a discussion about something non political
I believe they’re called communities in the fediverse, not subs…
(Former long time Redditor)
I don’t mind explicitly political news, or even actual political communities, but nonetheless I feel you there bc when a community like memes explicitly asks to not include political matters, but then it gets inundated with political themed non-memes, it is highly annoying to see how little consent actually matters.
Whatever a community sets out to do, the rules should matter to people, but sadly there are a very large number of those for whom consent means nothing, apparently, only what they can get away with bullying a moderation team into accepting.
I kept switching instances - first as Kbin.social stopped working and then due to extreme slowness and connectivity issues at others - so I found it easier to block whole instances than individuals. That leaves me unable to communicate with some people on those instances who might be worthwhile, but that is a trade-off that I am willing to make since I found the interactions with people on those instances overwhelmingly negative, as in I would rather have left the Fediverse entirely than have to put up with that, though now that instance blocks exist I am glad to have that option instead:-).