There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them.

After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren’t getting the downvotes they deserved.

Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I’m worried that if we’re all blocking shitty users that we’re just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I hope you’re right. Just seeing a sharp increase in hate speech on here, and I’m worried it’s going to be tricky to manage.

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      1 year ago

      Your concerns are valid. That’s something to be expected as the platform grows, but it’s alarming nonetheless.