I went on a blocking spree several weeks ago, and suddenly, most of the conversations on the topic were magically allowed to have nuance. Only had to block 8 or 9 instigators who were apparently the ones derailing every conversation.
I have a block list of about 40 thats taken a year to curate, and yes, Lemmy has been absolutely fantastic since I filled it out. It’s like wearing noise canceling headphones.
Right?! I almost gave up 6 months in but getting over my hesitation to just block and move on was a game changer.
My only problem with that, are that those instigators are still here, instigating others. I’d love to see a site feature like 4chan has, where they geolocate IP addresses and put a flag next to your user name. I know it can be bypassed with a VPN, but I’d at least like these little shits to at least have to use one. Rack up the flags on the username too – If the IP address changes from Russia, to USA, put both flags on the user. Set a super-cookie on browsers that tracks alt-accounts and connects them on the back-end, etc.
I believe in anonymity, but I don’t believe in people making up identities and alt accounts, etc in order to ‘dogpile’ their own conversations in order to make it look like more people agree with them than actually do.
I just found out that my boss does this shit. He’s got 3 facebook identities so when he’s losing an argument, he jumps on “Richard” or “David” to dogpile the conversation and make it look like more people agree with him on internet arguments.
I just found out that my boss does this shit. He’s got 3 facebook identities so when he’s losing an argument, he jumps on “Richard” or “David” to dogpile the conversation and make it look like more people agree with him on internet arguments.
Wow. That’s… unironically very sad.
The people who really suck tend to be really sad the more you learn. Like dude, I’d pity you if others didn’t have to put up with your crap. Now I’m just angry and feel bad
That’d catch some, yeah, but based on what I’ve read on join-lemmy.org and some of the Github issues, I just don’t see the Lemmy devs doing anything remotely close to that.
Not to mention, it’s incredibly easy to spin up sock puppet accounts on several instances (like you described your boss doing…omg that’s sad lol).
The concern trolls also usually stay within the community rules, so it’s often difficult to do anything about them even if you successfully identify one.
Proposal: The entire area goes under the control of a UN appointed panel of atheists.
“Oh, your sky daddy says you own this land? Yeah, no.”
Maybe we can move that fucking ladder
Uh, uhhh, uhhhhh, instructions unclear; genocide Joe, liberal, neo nazi, ppb!
i feel you but i think conservatives are the ones who need to hear this
The real politics of this is that nothing will happen unless the US allows it. And so far the US have only allowed continued violence.
There’s too many voters in the US that believe their sky god is the sky god that should rule those lands.
this. providing arms and the empire’s backing to israel is what enables them to bully the entire region.
Why are we still using BBL Drizzy in memes?
Everytime I see him now I just hear that song in my head lol
