Blocking keeps my feed nice. See people being assholes? Block them. See a post discussing something I don’t want to hear about? Block them. See a community I don’t want to hear about? Block them. The greatest thing about social media is the ability to never have to interact with someone again at no detriment to them. Blocking is good.
I recently asked for block recommendations to see more content that I can engage with and I had a reply from someone saying that if I was that upset with the internet, I should stop using it.
You can guess what happened next!
I have recommended at times being able to subscribe to a persons block list. Like being so impressed with someone that its like. Hey if they block it then I don’t want to see it. Especially given the spam. I would love all the power to block to be in the hands of individuals. Im generally against defederating or even moderators to some degree. It sometimes feels to me like the people who don’t like individuals blocking stuff get all onboard with it being blocked for people from higher ups.
That is an interesting thought. I do see a potential risk in basing your block list on someone else’s when they hold a position of power or influence, though.
If a popular person want to suppress engagement of a less popular person, they could add them to their block list, prompting their “block followers” to do the same. This could have a bad impact on Lemmy engagement if it was being (ab)used for such purposes.
I try to minimise the amount of individuals I block though. Most of them are bots and I would hate to miss a good post or comment by someone just because they made a bad one elsewhere. Your mileage may vary, of course.
I mean you should be able to unsubscribe the same way as you unblock. Would not be bad to have an override to so you could go through and unblock some stuff. Like if someone signed up for my blocklist they would have a bunch of sports stuff blocked because I have no interest in it.