While I personally agree in keeping communication with the unfiltered world, there is endless reasons to filter lemmy and all are equally valid.
Comment on How can users avoid bad content on Lemmy (particularly rule breaking or illegal comments/posts?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t think you SHOULD avoid content that offends you. And I don’t think we shouldn’t judge people. I judge everybody I meet. It’s not a bad thing.
It’s how you know if you’re ACTUALLY offended, or if you’re told you SHOULD be offended.
And somewhere along the way society lost it’s ability to know if they’re truely offended, or if they’re offended because other people are offended.
I’ll give you an example. Chick-fil-a offends a LOT of people because of their christian views, and their donations to anti-LGBQT causes.
I fully understand if you’re offended by them if you have close ties to LGBQT communities. I’m not saying those who are genuinely offended by them are wrong for being offended.
But if you have no real feelings either way about it, then you shouldn’t be offended just because other people are offended. And it’s good for them to be offended, because it gives them a cause based in their own opinion. Them refusing to eat at chick-fil-a means something. It’s something that affects them.
But if you have no views on it, then it doesn’t affect you. You’re not actually offended, you’re playing along with who tells you that you need to be offended.
And in turn, this means that protests don’t have actual passion behind them. I haven’t bought anything from a local grocery store called Marcs. That’s MY protest. But if you protested it, because I told you to, then there’s an artificial protest.
And now we can’t trust protests as an indication of who really cares about things, and how to judge those things objectively. Thats how you end up with bullshit like the Jan 6th riots. A bunch of brainless mindless fools being told that they’re offended. So now they have go satisfy their master.
And we never would have gotten to this point if over the past 30 years these people would ask themselves “how do I feel about this?” rather than “how do my peers think I should feel about this?”
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Rob200@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I understand your point, but I was primarily focused on blocking illegal/lemmy instance rule breaking comments. Not necessarily offensive comments, although that won’t mean I might not block some offensive commentators in the future. If I see a user using a racist slur for example, they’re highly likely to get blocked.
I was specifically looking for ways to preemptively block specific types of comments, user defined. Possibly by keywords. I don’t think the web ui has the keyword block function, but some lemmy apps do.