whenever there is extended discourse about like, the morality of blocking someone, i can’t help but feel like a lot of people here would benefit from putting some real energy into not being a pussy
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The morality of blocking someone? WTF is that? Blocking is a personal action that affects literally no one. It’s 100% amoral, like going to the toilet in your own home.
I rarely do the whole “oh my god shut up about this some people have real problems”, but people handwringing about whether not being able to see what someone else writes on a social media site need to think about actual suffering in the world a bit.
some people have sort of taken on a worldview where their experience of a negative emotion necessarily means that someone else needs to adjust their behavior, and that shit just isn’t good or healthy
Agreed. I just avoid assholes in general unless I feel like playing in the mud as well. It doesn’t occur to me to make someone else change. This is why I’m pro blocking tho.
Maybe doesn’t make sense for just any behavior that isn’t direct at you in particular but people being assholes affects everyone’s behavior. The reason people are assholes usually IS to elicit emotions to affect behavior—-to intimidate, manipulate & it gets contagious.
Not if they're blocked. The blockee can merrily continue as before.
If the blocker wants to entertain a conversation and it's in good faith why should they adjust their behaviour to endure what they consider a bad faith individual?
Freedom of choice, innit! Goes both ways.
Hey Peter, when you use the word pussy do you mean small and helpless like a kitten or so you mean the organ that expands to 9 times it's regular width to let out a newborn?
Well he may indeed as I do have a pussy. But then again I don't mind being blocked. In fact I encourage it by people who don't like what I am saying. You perhaps?
Any time I hear this I can't believe that's a hot take. I may not be OG to the internet but I'm old enough to remember the deviantart call out times and found out pretty quickly that those who whine about blocking/getting blocked are actually the biggest annoyances on the platform.
i looked abt a month ago. i didn't recognize any of the nine or ten usernames so had no reaction to it beyond 'huh. wtf?'
block whomever you want etc, but that quick look told me that some people can get worked up over nothing; i did not interact w/ these people. then i moved along. \_(ツ)_/
i really do mean 'block anyone you want'. your stream, your rules. it's just puzzling when there's no apparent connection between me + someone who has blocked me.
like, were you upset that you saw a post in which i mentioned motorcycles? travel? joked abt software or the hoa?
My understanding is some folks use block lists and you might get swept up simply because you follow or interact with a third party the blocker has blocked.
I block people if they keep showing on my feed & I didn't want to keep running across them. They weren't necessarily offensive, but really, we're all strangers so if you're not the mood to hear about some other stranger's life, why should you? And I'm totally cool w/blocking me for the same reason
Not only can they see it, this same crew of people built a tool that lets you look it up, and look up who any other user on the site has blocked, and then us that knowledge to launch vendettas against people.
It's more a matter of not having similar interests, not being able to relate, and therefore not wanting to give that person any of my time or space. I'm not on the internet to randomly see furry art in my Discover feed, for instance.
I've only blocked people because they were relentlessly harassing me or if they are a blue check because it's funny. I'm not sure there's really a whole lot to think about. Are we supposed to be concerned for who we block? Because I'm not lol
typically when I block someone I forget about them nearly entirely after about a week. if someone ends up on MY block list they do not exist to me anymore. there is no possible way for me to care less. a measurement that small has not been invented yet.
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2. If people block for dumb reasons, other people are allowed to think less of them.
&c.
If the blocker wants to entertain a conversation and it's in good faith why should they adjust their behaviour to endure what they consider a bad faith individual?
Freedom of choice, innit! Goes both ways.
CHUDs can get blocked and die forever
Stfu, I hope everyone blocks you and you never get out of bed again.
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block whomever you want etc, but that quick look told me that some people can get worked up over nothing; i did not interact w/ these people. then i moved along. \_(ツ)_/
like, were you upset that you saw a post in which i mentioned motorcycles? travel? joked abt software or the hoa?
And for people who do care, imagine going to look for something that you already know is going to make you sad. So weird.