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The block function is heavily used. Whole block lists get passed around quite frequently. I've never really seen much hate on there unless I'm clicking into something obviously heated politically. Other people may have other experiences, but the current culture there is to not engage the hate farmers and just block people instead

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Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  b-b-but echo chamber!
  
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- icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In the real world, you cool down hostility by talking it out. On the internet it’s the opposite
  
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  - stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Isn’t it more in the real world people don’t interact with close to the number of people they do on the internet, and they never encounter or avoid a lot of people which acts like a real world filter or blocklist?
    
    Internet is like walking in a store and then being flooded with hearing the thoughts of everyone in the store like you’re experiencing a telepathic attack.
    
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  - SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    In the real world you don’t get obvious bad faith actors in your face shouting nonsense very often, and when you do, you usually walk away from them too. It’s not helpful to engage with people who are actively working against cooling down.
    
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- Klear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Reporting and blocking is the only way and have always been, I don’t know what changed that people decided tolerating/engaging with them was being the better person.
  
  I think it’s the general focus on driving engagement and feeding the algorithm.
  
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  - Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    Klear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Most people here are (or were) still engaged on other social networks. The engagement seeking mindset is just so widespread, that people bring it with them to the fediverse where it makes no sense.
    
    At least that’s my answer. Not saying it is the cause, but it sounds about right to me.
    
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radix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nuclear block plus a culture of not feeding the trolls means the only toxic accounts I’ve run across are just a day or two old. Block and move on. The experience can only be as negative as each user lets it be.

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static09@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This has been my experience too. The community moderation tools on top of the tools available to moderate my own feed are leagues ahead of other platforms. Being able to temporarily block keywords feels really awesome in avoiding dumb shit that can blast through social media.

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