Those groups are filled with anti-trans, pro-corporate nonsense. I don’t even know what the point is, other than to make themselves feel bigger when the reality is that they’re just scared. It’s an echo chamber permeated with billionaire-funded viewpoints. No original thought, while also needing someone to punch down at every time.

Reddit was horrible for that. I think there's less trolling here, but still the occasional mental issue.

Some people are just passionate. Some people will write a manifesto in response to one line of text and dictate what you meant by it.

🎵 Gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em 🎶

People do that? Weird, then I musta been talking to aliens then.

I'm the alpha and omega of online toxicity, bow before my sludge

he needs to make an exception for comedians

There's 8 billion people, if you count bots there are probably 16 billion. I already have good people in my actual life, I can spare a few online souls lol

That's it, starik. You're on the list now.

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

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.

The big problem is discerning when you're playing chess against a pigeon, and when you're acting like the pigeon yourself. "I would never" - a pigeon

Sure, until next place changes their block function as well. Changing the rules to something that is objectively less safe is a bad thing, even if people are free to leave.

Edit for clarity.

Maybe you are just afraid to have your preconceptions challenged and are here for a quick ego fix. Which is cool and all, we all doomscroll, we need that dopamine, but I don't believe that is the purpose of a forum like this. Tik Tok might be a better match.

That's a very heavy lifting interpretation of the comic. It literally says "I don't like this thing". Not "this person is arguing in bad faith". This is how echo chambers form, and lemmy is a textbook example of one.

I think this is for people who are less “annoying” and more “actively lying and being bad faith.”

It can easily be co-opted by people willing to block either, as evidenced by the flame war in the comments here; the post suggests "I don't like this" -> Block. I don't like annoying people. I also don't like people arguing in bad faith.

This is further complicated by the fact that a lot of people misconstrue good faith arguments from very different points of view with bad faith arguments. I can't tell you how many times I've been labeled as someone arguing in bad faith because my view differed from theirs and I didn't immediately reverse my stance when confronted, or someone simply can't read very well (literacy rates being what they are these days).

In part, this is because trolls sometimes like to be very subtle and drag a conversation out for 50 comments.

In part, this is because people are dumb and/or paranoid and don't understand that people with other apparent viewpoints might not be trolls.

Blocking people is fine. Caressing your nipples because you blocked them is... less fine.

edit: "I blocked this user but I'm still completely infatuated with them to the point that I check to make sure they are indeed commenting about me."

I haven’t blocked that many people, but I’ve also blocked whoever the other commenter is. That likely means they are an obvious troll, if they made my meager list. It looks like they also replied to you, which is pretty funny.