Hexbear is making Lemmy unbearable for me. There's no function for a user to block everything from a server. I don't want to see their communities, their users, their posts, their messages, or their votes showing up.
I block communities as they come up, I block individuals as they post, but it's never ending.
Every popular post is over-run with tankies shitposting, grinding real conversation to a halt.
They're not people open to having a conversation in good faith. They're ChapoTrapHouse shitposters who got kicked off reddit for being pro-violence shitposters.
Their Moderation Policy is incompatible with ours, as they allow hate speech as long as it's directed towards the "right" people.
A first timer looking would see 90% tankie crap and would leave and not come back.
I've contributed less since they were joined simply because I don't want a herd of tankies yelling at me with nobody else even reading it.
Until such a time that I, as a user, can bock everything from a server I support defederation. Or at the very least put a giant poop emoji next to everything from that server so it's easier to skip. They seem to like poop.
Until they have the native tools to let me, as a user, block the entire instance I'm with you. Until then defederation is the only way to make "All" even bearable.
Should I stop contributing, leave, and come back in a few months to see if those tools have been made? Because that's a much preferable alternative than wading through so much shitposting blocking one community or user at a time. And I still see the effect of their votes.
If this is going to drive away people who have been here what do you think it'll do to newcomers? Do you think people will really want to join somewhere where every top post is full of tankies?
Besides it's not like they're posting in good faith. They're not there for an honest conversation. They are ChapoTrapHouse and they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. They are 100% trolls.