There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them.

After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren’t getting the downvotes they deserved.

Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I’m worried that if we’re all blocking shitty users that we’re just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.

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    -21 year ago

    On reddit, it was absolutely problematic because it actively prevented any other discussion past where a block occurred.

    That isn’t a thing here, so no issues with blocking. Curate your own feed to see what you want, and don’t cry that other people will be able to see what you block.