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I hang out on the free speech side, and I mostly avoid the JQ and edgelord types. It's not hard, you curate your own feed, and the block button is merely a clic
by friend_and_foe 4y ago
I hang out on the free speech side, and I mostly avoid the JQ and edgelord types. It's not hard, you curate your own feed, and the block button is merely a click away. You run into them in threads and just ignore them, just like in real life (and up until like 6 years ago, on the internet in general).
- ceres 4y agoBelieve it or not “just ignore them“ doesn’t work for many people. There’s a reason 4chan is only popular with a certain demographic.
- dumpsterlid 4y agoYah "just ignore them" really means "it doesnt effect me and I am uninterested in hearing how it actually effects you"
- friend_and_foe 4y agoIt doesn't affect anyone except people who want it to. It's literally some random person whispering into the wind on the internet. I'm uninterested in hearing how it actually affects you because it doesn't actually affect you, you just want to cry about something. "You" in the proverbial sense of course, the way you used it above.
- ceres 4y agoGood for you if you're not affected, I guess. For many people, Internet trolls can cause psychological harm. This is not some obscure thing. Teens have been committing suicide due to bullying on the Internet for decades.
- friend_and_foe 4y agoNot going to 4chan is the same thing as just ignoring them. It works perfect.
- krapp 4y agoIt doesn't work, because they don't stay on the chans. They infest every space they can, doing everything they can to be unignorable. They're even on HN.
- mhuffman 4y agoI have never used Twitter, just never saw the appeal. But I have a question, does it also have a method to block people and conversations/topics/keywords or are you just forced to have to have algorithmically chosen tweets pushed on you?
- 3np 4y agoIf you host your own instance, you can have arbitrary filtering policies. In particular Pleroma has a modular and flexible system here. https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/configuration/mrf/ https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/configuration/mr...
- Cyberdog 4y agoYou can block users on Twitter, yes. In fact, in some circles, "block chains" (no relation to the crypto-related tech) are popular; the idea being that you use a script to not only block one person, but subsequently block everyone that follows or is followed by that person, then block those that follow or are followed by those people, and so on to a certain level of depth - kind of a "curse you and your offspring for ten generations" sort of vibe. I suppose in a way this is functionally similar to blocking an entire instance on the fediverse. Not sure if you can block hashtags or something like that on Twitter.
- mhuffman 4y agoHoly shit! That is interesting. So then would one still be bombarded with all the info that they don't want to see from those that they haven't been able to block yet but are topic-similar to those blocked, or can you more or less effectively make your own "silo". If the second point is true, what are people upset about if they can easily "chain block" entire sub-graphs of people that they don't want to hear from? That people other than them might be exposed to it?
- csande17 4y agoYes, I have found in previous discussions about Internet moderation that while many people talk about not wanting to see certain content themselves, the actual thing they want is to control what everyone else sees.