I was banned from News for acting too Republican, and now I am not given the option to block the community. It’s like 90% Trump posts, and I just want to talk about cats or something without hearing about my annoying president.
The default UI makes it clunky, but I think you can go to you profile settings (https://lemmy.world/settings) and on the “Blocks” tab search for the community and add it to your blocks.
Sadly, old lemmy (an alternate UI that looks like old reddit) doesn’t even show the block tab under settings. No wonder I couldn’t figure out how to unblock things.
Thanks. I figured I’d be blocked eventually because the opinions on that sub were so homogeneous, but it would have been fucked up if I had to make a new account to block the sub that banned me.
… it’s just baffling to me. Dissenting opinions are a good thing. Echo chambers aren’t healthy for the people in them. It’s just weird how the opinions of the people I know are so different than the opinions of people on the internet. It’s like I live in an alternate reality.
I didn’t check but “dissenting opinions” can easily just be manipulative disinfo that will direct the least intellectually competent one way or another. No, takes that are close to reality are valid and useful, and attitudes that are prosocial and virtues are the only ones worth having, everything else is incomplete/trash.
Idk what you said in those online spaces, I didn’t click the links, honestly, so don’t think I’m coming for you personally. But two things are not the same just because they’re in the same category (sure, poop IS edible but it’s not the same as spaghetti bolognaise), and takes and attitudes aren’t all worth the same, and I’d rather have a “closed community” of diverse righteous folks sharing things competently truthfully than have to share it with amoral beasts and the offensively mentally challenged.
Personally, I don’t believe anyone has human rights. It is the wolves right to hunt the gazelle for food, and it’s the gazelle’s right to evade him.
I don’t really care what dumb shit you got banned for, this is the sentiment that made you deserve it. Go fuck yourself, you ghoul.
Yet another ban that only demonstrates the mod’s personal world view rather than enforcing the community rules.
