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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I know for my instance they get full bans. It’s a small instance, but make sure you report people. Mods see it and will ban them from entire instances. They can go be angry trolls on someone else’s server.

  • Jim@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Imo blocked users get less engagement, therefore it helps to some degree. Also, unlike reddit, it’s somewhat difficult to browse the Fediverse without being logged in. I’d guess that if any problematic content does slip through, it reaches a much smaller audience than if it were to slip through on reddit just because of how things are decentralized here.

    edit: I tried it again and I now agree that it is easier to browse with an account. I saw a lot more content than the first time I tried it ~2 months ago

    • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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      2 years ago

      Also, unlike reddit, it’s somewhat difficult to browse the Fediverse without being logged in

      I strongly disagree with that part

      • cujo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Indeed. I find the inverse to be true. It’s getting harder and harder to browse Reddit without being logged in, but Lemmy is no problem.