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Cake day: January 3rd, 2024
  • Well, you are getting downvoted and it’s probably because “liberal” or centrist viewpoints are seen a bit like skeet shooting for some of the hard left on here. They seek ideological purity and are looking for a safe space.

    But you know life is full of dogmatists eh. Some of them need blocking, and some of them need mocking. And some you can actually have a discussion with.

  • I use the Voyager app and it allows me to tag user names so that I can avoid blocking the borderline cases. I don’t mind people who are having a bad day or are just cranky, or maybe have attitudes I find annoying but not fully disturbing. I will of course block extremist authoritarians and such.

    Since it’s a smallish social media community, I don’t really want to block all the discomfort away.

    If I know what to expect from someone’s posts, it’s more entertaining than jarring when someone is being abrasive, and it helps me interject if things get out of hand.

    I like that Lemmy/piefed is topic oriented, and not nearly as emotional as a microblogging space like mastodon, which is full of personal branding and ego and frequent annoyance at discussion when all someone wanted to do was make a posturing statement without friction or the jostle of other egos.