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Is it just me, or have the comments on Lemmy become extra aggressive over the past 3 months? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like things on Lemmy were pretty chill several months ago, and that’s started to change.

People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor. Now I get the sense that people have become quick to be negative, attack, and not be constructive.

Am I crazy in feeling like the vibe has changed?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I totally thought that was in 0.19 but I haven't actually seen that yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It's under Settings -> Blocks -> then down at the bottom is the block instances option.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

If the apps don't have instance blocking yet, the webui does (in 0.19)... I haven't tested it, but it's there, at the bottom of my settings page 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

the 0.19 implementation is so half-assed I genuinely think the Lemmy devs just don't want that functionality but expected quite a lot of backlash if they outright said as much, so they decided to implement something that ticks the box in the "wanted features" list without having any effect

afaik it only blocks communities and explicitly lets users from blocked instances through

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Feel free to make open an issue to improve instance blocking. Or better yet a pull request. We are only a few devs with limited time, and hundreds of issues to work on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Sorry for this kind of aggressivity

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

0.19.1