I get it. There's some real jerks around here. Whether they're constantly argumentative, downright rude, always acting in bad faith, just plain trolls, overly opinionated on every subject, have the social skills of a Nausicaan, or whatever - the Fediverse is growing, and it's bound to attract toxicity in one way or another.

This post is mostly a PSA for anyone who's feeling like leaving because they're tired of dealing with things like that. I've been there several times myself, I know exactly how you feel, and I'm tired of seeing good people harassed off the platform.

Just remember that blocking is a very powerful way to stay in control of your experience. Be it a set of users, me specifically, a list of keywords, a whole community, or an entire instance: if it's causing you nothing but stress, hit that block button and see if that improves your experience here. Unlike the alien site, there is no limit to the number of entities you can block; you're in control.

Another thing to keep in mind is different instances have different vibes, and the experience can totally differ depending on the instance's moderation and federation policy.

In conclusion, your experience here can be what you make of it; don't be afraid to just block the parts that stress you out. You're not "creating an echo chamber" as everyone likes to say (often in bad faith) -- you're just taking care of yourself.

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[–] donuts@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Thunder too, installed it specifically for user tags!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hope they bring that to Lemmy overall, it will make for a much better experience for everyone. Mobile is really hard to mod from.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

There is a voyager frontend on web. But I think it’s only a mobile view https://vger.app/posts/lemm.ee/all

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

No it works on desktop as well.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Would be a great selling point over centralized alternatives too. "take control of your own experience" and all that. Reddit will never be able to achieve that level

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Reddit Executive Suite (RES) was amazing for that. I've been gone so long that I'm not sure it works anymore.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

Reddit Enhancement Suite does still work, they just had to break a few features from the api thingy.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

It appears to be still working on old.reddit. I no longer have an account there, but occasionally check on communities I miss here and RES still seems to be chugging away.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I never realized that Thunder has something for it, because there is zero UI for it as far as i can see. There is just the list in the settings that you can manually add people to. This doesnt do anything however... I expected the label to show up next to the username or something but it just doesnt.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you long press on a comment for actions and then hit "user", you see the option to add a label at the bottom of that menu.

A bit hidden, I agree, but very useful.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oooh okay it shows up only on comments of the tagged person. I was looking at posts and their profile. Thanks for the quick guide.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago

Boost has user tagging as well.

Only issue is the tag and report dialogs look exactly alike and multiple times I've unknowingly clicked report in error. I'm kinda surprised I never got criticised for abusing the report function when all I've written is "pro-russia" or "idiot"