On the other hand, since Lemmy is made up of a much smaller userbase, I've had a lot of success with just blocking users. When it's one user with 100 comments, it's a lot easier to solve the issue with the tools available to you as a user than on Reddit where you're more likely to have 100 different people making 1-3 comments each spouting blind rhetoric/useless exaggeration/unfunny meme responses. It's not big enough for people to bother too much with alt accounts or brigading yet either.

I do my best to stay away from posts with topics likely to attract that sort of crowd too.

In general while it's not as good as I hoped for, I find Lemmy/fediverse a hell of a lot better than what I left. People are going to be assholes wherever they think they can get away with it, and the best response is to starve them of attention.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Fair enough. I find that with the federation, blocking people just results in my feed being emptier than I’d like to be. It’s already pretty sparse. Removing even more of it just because someone was an idiot in a singular, particular topic seems like overkill for such a small space. We’re just barely getting over the hump where new content is showing regularly enough to where the front pages aren’t filled with the same posts for days. And, even then, it’s not great content.