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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    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.