There's a difference between manually blocking specific users and having a system set up so you will automatically block anyone who ever downvotes any of your posts or comments.
Song of the Bandits The song on the YT video isn't great here imo, but they actually mix it up in the show proper and use different songs. And some really fit the theme.
No, your interpretation of my comments was that they were confrontation and caustic. That’s a you problem, and you might want to ask yourself why it is your emotional response to my comments was that way.
I didn't have a strong emotional response as such, just noting the general feedback. It certainly read as incredibly judgemental and sanctimonious to me but I personally didn't feel attacked by it.
I’m not really surprised, because my comment acknowledges something uncomfortable, and several people here’s respond to that discomfort, is to pretend it doesn’t exist.
Even if the platform is wholly as you describe, people can only really focus on some things. It's perfectly fine for people to just have their own interests and follow them and cultivate them.
Reminds me of my history day project in high school where I got an A+ from my teachers, but was dragged into the principles office because it made my fellow students ‘uncomfortable’. It was about the history and political influence of the KKK and racism in American society… almost as if despite being the truth, it’s acknowledgement made people VERY uncomfortable… probably because many of those same students were deeply racist.
Good god man, could you puff your own feathers out even more. The idea that Lemmy is politicised and partisan (or that people on it are partisan) is not some new observation.
I really don't know where you're getting all these people across the Threadiverse speciifcally berating you for how you use the website. Your top post in this thread was pretty caustic and confrontational and naturally got people's backs up.
"This depends upon the communities you follow. And you have the choice to NOT follow them. I only read the communities that I subscribe to (instead of sorting by ‘all’), and it is very rare that I encounter the garbage that you’re describing."
I wouldn't identify this as criticising you, but addressing your own grievances with how you interact with the site.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats Lemmy has fallen by 10k in a year. Of course Piefed has increased it by about 6k, so it's a net decline of about 4-5k.
No. I’m complaining about people complaining at me that I don’t curate my feed to be puppies and kittens, and if I don’t, therefore I am a bad person.
Is that something that is happening at scale on here? I've never seen people do this. I've seen users who point out to people complaining about the /all/ feed to curate their content, but that's just advise - not complaining.
Yeah, if you curate your feed to not see things, you won’t think they are happening.
Okay? I mean The Threadiverse isn't necessarily the only place people on here expose themselves to.
You just complained that people complain about how others use the platform, and now you're here right now lecturing on others if they choose to curate their feeds and only follow their subscribed communities.
Ok please humor me then here. Can you walk me through a situation where an instance would untether itself. One day lemmy becomes super popular. People notice it as a platform to get information on. Millions of views an hour. Peter Thiel is paying chinese click farms to post manosphere content in popular lemmy communities. Musk is linking “no kings 5.0” lemmy posts to his followers on X who are brigading the comments. The moderators of the most popular lemmy.world communities are Marvel executives and Billionare Pedophiles.
I think this is so ridiculous as to essentially constitute fantasy. Lemmy.world, the largest Lemmy instance has about 40% of the active userbase (and declining slowly as a share of overall users) out of a pool of about 40k users. I don't think that's sufficient if Lemmy.world tried to cut itself off from every other network, they'd shed a lot of users who have people and communities they interact with outside of the main instance.
If Lemmy became popular, it across the instances would become popular. Not just one instance.
If for some reason a single instance did become hyperpopular and obnoxious to interact on, the lemmy software would still be accessible to rebuild another ecosphere elsewhere.
So now we abandon it and leave. What does that mean as far as protecting that instance from that same thing happening?
I'm not sure you know what an "instance" is. Can you tell me what you think an instance is?
You know, I think people have many different interests and reasons for why they use social media platforms. Some are just hobbyists and use it for those purposes and thus curate and control a feed that emphasises their interests. Is that bad?
Because it isn't a singular space. An instance that goes bad can be tethered from the rest of the wider network, and abandoned, leaving it on its own.
I can start an instance right now. But that doesn’t mean it will have any kind of importance. If I can create new spaces, and let’s say it grows, wouldn’t the problems from the first instance just carry over.
I don't know what you mean by "problems with the first instance".
It's not advisable for people running personal instances, or people running small friend instances for those reasons. The same is true of lemmy-federate if you were to join that.
A time-limited manual block is doable and desirable.
I am afraid I simply don't support your automatic block system time limited or not.