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Hence:
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/x-block-changes-twitter/507-931ed7fc-cacd-4550-b850-b5d235533227
https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1ps4r5d/heres_a_fun_new_one_no_longer_able_to_block/
https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1st24au/reddits_new_block_feature_is_bizarrely_antisocial/
Blocking someone reduces ragebait engagement, and they can't have that, I guess...
I can't read your reddit thread without logging in, which will never happen.
"for the love of god get off twitter" - Sonic The Hedgehog
The fact that these platforms are trying to remove the block button is, to my mind, the strongest argument in favor of using it. These platforms are often mentally corrosive and will do everything in their power to ensure that you stay addicted, outraged, and idle. If you're busy debating reactionary idiots, who these days might not even be real people, then that is sapping your mental energy away from more productive efforts in your party/union.
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.
yeah, and actually all those platforms have been shown on different opportunities to have a bot problem and it's still unaddressed because it's basically a conflict of interests to them (numbers go up : stakeholders go happy.) That's basically how I've been drown to Lemmy (and before, other 'niche' forums, irc channels, etc.)
You can always "block" (i.e. not use) forums and platforms that don't work the way you like.
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.
I agree, but my reaction would be to leave, not suffer through it.
The first, most central and foundational principle of international diplomacy and conflict resolution is that you must always afford both sides a voice. If you don't, there can be no communication, no progress, no way forward but conflict.
Take a moment and try to feel what you feel when someone ignores you, as if you were thin air. Does that emotion lead somewhere good?