By using Lemmy we’re already filtering out certain people and opinions. I personally think that the more control we have over what we see, the better. I don’t think it’s opposing views people want to filter out. It’s the ones having those views and being dicks about it.

Unavoidably so but then again, going sideways because of a downvote is just more data on who you might want to block.

Echo chamber within echo chamber I guess.

It’s not the people whose opinions I disagree with who I usually block. It’s people making snide comments like this while fishing for upvotes. I’ll reserve my attention to the ones who have something to say rather than ones just wanting to make noise.

If this mean we’d be able to see who has up- / downvoted a comment on our own and possibly on other people’s posts then I’m all for it. This would be highly useful at filtering out the people here I want nothing to do with.

I usually refrain from replying to threads on those instances and when possible use the non-.ml equivalent

I don’t watch reels, shorts, tiktoks or any other short for videos and Loops is not an exception. I moved from Instagram to Pixelfed for the sole purpose of getting atleast some audience for my photography since Instagram wants you to post videos instead.

I believe that by US standards I’m a so called “classical liberal” but by Lemmy standards I’m probably somewhere in the centre right.

And no I’m not that on purpose just like the “ultra-wokes” aren’t either. We don’t choose our beliefs. They are what they are. We hold the beliefs we think are correct. Now if someone makes an incredibly good argument that shakes your world view, you don’t choose to change your mind either - you helplessly do so.

No I mean the new pictures I’ve uploaded there since too.

Well damn. I already copied my entire Instagram library there so I guess I’ll just deal with it.

I haven’t figured out how to find good photographers to follow but my last two posts there has both gotten over 25 likes which is more than I used to get on Instagram so I guess that’s something. My only complaint is how much they scale down my pictures and absolutely butcher the quality.

Yeah going thru her post history left me with the impression that if everyone seems to have a problem with you then maybe you’re the problem.

That’s so weird. I write controversial stuff here all day every day and I’ve never had this happen to me. Not here and not on reddit either.

This and also that Lemmy has a major left-wing bias. I’d gladly take more right wingers here to even it out a little. Not that social media represents real life anyway, but being on a left-left wing platform does distort one’s reality a little. There’s a lot of views that are mainstream here but which I almost never encounter in real life.

And that’s how it should be. In my mind the ideal social media is a complete wild west that has it all but also comes with tools that allow users to tailor the experience to their personal liking instead of having someone else do it for them (unless that’s what they want)

This no longer works for me on 0.19

You can do this natively in your user settings but it doesn’t work for me for some reason. I’m quessing it can’t handle my massive block list.

When lemmygrad is the benchmark there’s only good alternatives.

JRE apparently no longer is Spotify exclusive either

When a blocked user replies to my message I get no notification and might just see “1 more reply” or something like that but when I click it it wont load. Only when I sign out can I read it. However I believe that the blocked users can still see my messages just fine. Same with bans. I can see all posts from lemmy.ml but they can’t see mine.