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.
On reddit, it was absolutely problematic because it actively prevented any other discussion past where a block occurred.
That isn’t a thing here, so no issues with blocking. Curate your own feed to see what you want, and don’t cry that other people will be able to see what you block.