I always felt like it was wrong to block an account unless it was smth absolutely insane. Nazis etc.
But now I’m blocking people who’s tone I dont like, or who are baiting or actingnin bad faith.
I know I can’t do it as a mod. But i can certainly do it as an individual now. Judgy comment? Blocked. Unnecessarily confrontational? Blocked.
This is new to me, literally 3 days. Wonder how this affects my feed. Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can’t see it. I wish they couldn’t see anything I posted either.
What are your blocking habits? If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?
I find that kind of behaviour near ubiquitous but odd.
I have the cats /c blocked becase of the enviormental devesatioan cats do (including killing dolphins with toxoplasmosis) and it saddems me to see people extolling that but that’s it as afar as blocking goes here.
On Mastodon the only people I’ve blocked are the tediously boring, often it’s people who I agree with but they seem unable to use any joined up thinking and labour over a particular issue endlessly.
I think thats perhas becase I consider my own opinions way outside the norm and am prelared to listen to others, just in case.