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Is Blocking Users Problematic to the Platform? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by mipadaitu@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 year ago

"Sorry queer folk, you can't block the people who want you dead, because it's important that you see their hate so you know it exists" (as if they we didn't already know)