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[–] 70 points 2 months ago (23 children)

Blocking doesn't stop them from propagandizing others.

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  • [–] 90 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    True but sometimes you have to pick your battles for your own mental health.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Very true, but be careful not to end up in an echo chamber

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Echo Chambers are great. You just think they're horrible because you're in an echo chamber that says they're horrible.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    You wouldn't say that if you actually knew that most echo chambers are like the Incels, the neonazis or the pro-MAGA.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    But interacting with them will be interpreted as "engagement" and lead the algorithms to push them into more feeds and rank them higher.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Well not on lemmy I don't think they use algorathms to rank content and are open about how they rank comments and such. Not entirely sure though I am not a computer guy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Sorting by ‘active’ takes into account the time of the last comment, and/or the number of comments. And it's the default sorting option in the default UI and apps that I've seen.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    To be clear, I'm writing from a Lemmy/Reddit/Slashdot perspective. Maybe on Mastodon/Twitter (or, dog forbid, Facebook) it's different, but I wouldn't know because I've never used that shit.

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