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There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them.

After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren't getting the downvotes they deserved.

Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I'm worried that if we're all blocking shitty users that we're just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.

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I know for my instance they get full bans. It's a small instance, but make sure you report people. Mods see it and will ban them from entire instances. They can go be angry trolls on someone else's server.

[โ€“] JimmyDean@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Imo blocked users get less engagement, therefore it helps to some degree. ~~Also, unlike reddit, it's somewhat difficult to browse the Fediverse without being logged in.~~ I'd guess that if any problematic content does slip through, it reaches a much smaller audience than if it were to slip through on reddit just because of how things are decentralized here.

edit: I tried it again and I now agree that it is easier to browse with an account. I saw a lot more content than the first time I tried it ~2 months ago

[โ€“] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Also, unlike reddit, it's somewhat difficult to browse the Fediverse without being logged in

I strongly disagree with that part

[โ€“] cujo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Indeed. I find the inverse to be true. It's getting harder and harder to browse Reddit without being logged in, but Lemmy is no problem.