What do you block people for?
What do you block people for?
Do you have a criteria for what qualifies as block-worthy offence or are you just doing it when you feel like it?
Bonus question: how long is your block list?
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- Spam
- CSAM/defending posting CSAM
- incessant hornyposting on unrelated topics. Not like making a sex joke a couple of times, but a persistent history of pornbrain comments in non-NSFW communities. It's just annoying.
My blocklist (outside of spam accounts) is like 5-6 people on Lemmy. But it's definitely larger on other social media sites because there are a cesspool of people doing #2 and 3.
defending posting CSAM
WTF where did you even see that
Yeah I don't really see any of this stuff on their list, not even when I used reddit. I mean yes technically I have seen it, but extremely rarely
I should clarify to say I've never been in a space where CP was being distributed.
But one of the times it was on reddit (just before the blackout, actually). One of the "recommended" posts to me was a post with a collection of pictures of random screenshots of naked babies and toddlers in bathing suits from random instagram accounts/family vloggers maybe. It had low double digit upvotes but a hundred comments, the top level ones being just...really creepy, and the replies calling them out (I'm assuming these were people who also got the post "recommended" to them, like me).
I reported it and tried to block it from my memory. It freaked me out how many people were in the post defending it as innocent post of just "kids having fun", when like...it clearly was not. I remember the OP's profile having a bunch of posts like that too, even though it was a very new account.
Anyone reading this , please don't post your babies/toddlers on social media 🙏
What is CSAM? It is an abbreviation for many things apparantly. Are you referring to 'Child sexual abuse material'? Did you encounter such things on Lemmy?
So far I luckily didn't come across anything like that but I also blocked all porn-related instances that I saw so far.
Yep, lemmy was hit with a bunch of CSAM spammers last year, and I was unfortunate enough to see a post before mods/admin were able to do something about it.
If you see the first two things you need to report them, especially the second one. Honestly when it comes to the second one not reporting it is irresponsible. That shit is highly illegal and you need to report that to instance admins so that it can be taken care of ASAP.
Spam isn't as much of a problem but you do need to report it as well, bystander effect is not an excuse either. When it comes to reporting content you need to think about it like you are the only one who ever saw it or the only one who will see it. That's how it is sometimes.
Again if you report before you block that's largely fine. I mainly say this because there are people who block without reporting, and that absolutely is not fine.