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Because you can go through your whole life with zero negative social corrections. It's a low trust, collapse of society thing

hmm, blocked! /j

Blocking is self-care. Just with the added teeth of "get tf out of my phone."

That's it.

It's maintaining your personal peace, and frankly I find it weird that it's even a conversation let alone as stigmatized as it is. People still have a litany of ways to reconnect outside digital. It's literally what people had to do before blocking was a thing.

Follow-up to this question after seeing many responses (and thank you): What is your default mode for self-doubt when engaging in discussions?

That is, no matter how confident you may be in something, do you maintain an open door, or are your beliefs you block over completely set in stone?

For me, little terrifies me more than becoming the thing I hate; to be clouded by my own cognitive bias; to inadvertently throw myself into an echo-chamber of self-validation. As such I try my best to always maintain at least the slightest bit of doubt in even my strongest beliefs, and to that end to at least let dialogue challenging that come through.

I'll try to be civil and will ask clarifying questions.

However, as soon as I see someone both-sides-ing, I block them.
Ain't got no time for their "can't we all just get along, kumbaya" centrist bullshit anymore. No we can't "just get along", the overton window has gone too far to the right for that.
You have actual Nazis running shit now, or attempting to run things in other nations.

We need to fight them, the time for "understanding" is over.

The vast majority of people on Reddit and Lemmy are of a certain political leaning, and that side doesn’t do well with having to defend their position or even be questioned, and they love censorship, so blocking is step 2. Step 1 is name calling.

Because people online are jerks

Why would you read someone you don't want to? Why would you use a feature of the platform?

I blocked pretty freely on Twitter till I left the site around when I got the Bluesky invite. I still block freely on there, but not Reddit or Lemmy. I didn't on Reddit cause there was a cap on how many accounts you can have blocked and Lemmy doesn't handle blocks in a way I like so I just don't bother. I like being able to curate my experience and the experience others that interact with me have. I got no energy for shit stains so blocking is easier than constantly knowing they exist.