Submitted 1 month ago by Rob200@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
On social platforms in general you can run among some offensive content. How can Lemmy users avoid rule breakers on Lemmy and viewing certain content. Preferably without running into the rule offending comment and then having to block a user.
Is it better for users to view posts at latter dates, or the day the post is out the comments start coming? What can the user do to avoid such content. Are their steps the user can take before a moderator reviews a post such as word filters?
Find a smaller instance and use the local and subscribed feeds. Then make use of the tools for more fine-grained blocking.
Can confirm. I’m mainly using the subscribed feed, and it has made this place a lot nicer than it was before. The All feed can still be nice from time to time, but that’s not my primary feed.
Block Lemmygrad, hexbear, and may-be even .ml if your instance doesn’t
Don’t browse the c/ starting with politics/worldnews and similar
Keep on relax, cool, communities. places like !foodporn@lemmy.world, !jukebox@sh.itjust.works or even !imageai@sh.itjust.works should be pretty safe compared to !world@lemmy.world
For the love of God lemmygrad is a Chinese psyops
There is no golden rule for this, just like any social media, laws vary in different countries.
You should block all NSFW instances and all NSFW communities on general instances if you are concerned about breaking the law, doing that shows that you are intentionally blocking content that is seen as questionable.
My blocklist is huge, I tend to browse all, and add instances or communities to the list constantly. Most of the stuff is things I find annoying, ourt of sight, out of mind, other times it is hard NSFW and I don’t want to get porn by randomly browsing Lemmy, if that is what I am after I will use a dedicated account.
You can also just subscribe to communities you want to read and only browse those.
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?”
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.
While I personally agree in keeping communication with the unfiltered world, there is endless reasons to filter lemmy and all are equally valid.
Rule breaking? Damn near impossible to prevent all of it. Blocking NSFW posts helps as long as the posts are marked that way. It isn’t perfect, but it helps.
As others have said, for written things, you have to use an interface that has filters. Which pretty much means apps on a mobile device afaik.
Blocking is the best way I think, can’t really avoid blocking the bad actors no matter where you go. Or just ignore em.
One of the best ways for sure.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Lemmy can block words, communities, or entire instances, if you know what your blocking for. Often illegal or excessive content will get reported by other users who browse new before it hits hot. But without forcing everything posted under a moderator review first, I’m not sure you could achieve perfect preemptive filtering.
AsudoxDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Lemmy does not support blocking posts, users, instances, communities or comments natively. That is a client sided feature of Voyager.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Huh I see, but I wonder it appears to sync with the website? Is this coordinated outside the lemmy server?
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Rob200@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I don’t think the web ui has the keyword block function, but some lemmy apps seem to. I couldn’t find it on the web ui atleast.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Interesting, TIL keyword filtering is still a WIP, frontends are doing their own locally. Tesseract is available on lemmy.zip, it has filters but is a quite different experience.
Open request @ github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3710
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 1 month ago
You can block posts, not comments with uBlock origin by using a custom filter
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