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What instances do you block and/or contain the most trolls? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I found that things became much more pleasant on here when I blocked hexbear. I recently blocked lemmy.ml as well, but I may reverse that if I find that I'm missing too much good content.

I'm open to other ideas on how to mostly avoid people who love conflict or argue in bad faith.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Lemmy.ml and hexbear were the first two I blocked and have zero regrets.

I blocked a few others because the content didn't interest me and my preference is to browse on All instead of Subscribed so I can find content in communities I did not know existed. For example I blocked lemmynsfw because I didn't want the content to come up while browing in public.

I wish there was an additional option to block all users of an instance separate from the instance block that applies to communities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish there was an additional option to block all users of an instance separate from the instance block that applies to communities.

I have thought about that and wondered: how would child comments under a blocked user be handled? If I was on Instance_A and able to block Instance_B to no longer see comments from those users, what about the other Instance_A users (who have not blocked Instance_B) who reply to Instance_B comments on an Instance_A thread? Would I still see those Instance_A comments, and the Instance_B comments in the comment chain just appear blank or something? Or would the entire comment chain, starting at the Instance_B comment, just not get displayed to you at all?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In my experience all comments in the chain after the blocked user are not displayed.

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