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I became so exhausted from the toxicity on Lemmy that I began searching for alternatives, and I stopped trying to argue in the comments. This leads me to wonder: am I the only one who is feeling this way?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Maybe it puts me at risk of forming an echo chamber but I make liberal use of the block user, block community, block instance features.(in connect for lemmy. I don't know which are app specific.)

Lemmy seems to be small enough that blocking a few dozen particularly argumentative users noticeably improves the experience. Although I do try to avoid the politics communities and posts as those frequently end up with arguments and eventually name calling.

Are you consuming the all feed unfiltered?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does it save those blocks? Cause I keep having to block the same communities over and over like it’s not sticking

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've experienced some of what you describe, but it works for the most part. I just looked through my blocked communities list and I haven't seen anything from them in a while.