Yeah, it’s one of the factors causing echo chambers to form online.

Not that I doubt you, I just don’t understand how a user bidirectional block works when other instances don’t support the feature.

Tell me more about this apple up your ass

Tell me more about this apple up your ass

Edit: Replied to wrong comment

How does that work from a technical perspective? Do non-piefed users still see you?

I’m not sure how or why it hasn’t been mentioned yet, but one reason blocking is the way it is, is because in a public forum like this, blocking somebody else from seeing your content is extremely open to abuse, while providing no real benefit from a protection perspective. As accounts are essentially free and unlimited, any malicious user can logout or spin up a new account to bypass your block.

On the abuse issue, it was previously shown with some testing on Reddit that by posting something offensive and controversial, then blocking everybody who responded in a negative manner, you could within 3 - 5 rounds of blocking reach the point where you could post practically anything and have it seen like a popular opinion, since everybody who disagreed with you and was willing to call out your bullshit couldn’t see it any more. Hence technical reasons aside, there are very good systemic reasons the blocking mechanism works the way it does.

The article linked to a list of applicable research. https://news.engin.umich.edu/2019/09/most-powerful-laser-in-the-us-to-be-built-at-michigan/

Would have thought it was an obvious play on the headline, but I accept that sheer stupidity does exist.

… c/whoosh?

It was a false positive.

Edit: I can’t believe this needed a /s

Your post is about Palestine and Israel… How did Russia enter the discussion? I’m so confused I don’t even know what I should be feeling. Go to sleep dude.

Not stupid enough to be understanding this, thankfully.

Are you high? The entire post and comment is plain incoherent.

I agree. Nobody should be risking their safety / livelihood / whatever to host a random internet discussion site. That doesn’t mean we should leave the situation as it is. I believe the main concern is to move off the !europe comm there and onto the new one at !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Given that the main issue is they’re the host for !europe, an alternative comm has been set up at !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com

The mods don’t seem to think it’s a major issue, I haven’t heard any of them actually admit this is a problematic situation to have. Some folks have set up a new community at !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Germany, and any criticism of Israel, or dealings with thereof, that crosses a somewhat arbitrary (for those of us living outside Germany) line.

Gonna mention that !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com has been set up as an alternative for Europe-centric discussions

Mostly that they host the main Europe-centric comm, !Europe@feddit.org. You can see the problem when criticism of Europe’s most powerful country is censored in said comm, and users banned, for relatively innocuous comments.

The author sounds like the kind of player who complains about missing game features, then it turns out they skipped the tutorial.