• RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
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    3 days ago

    I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote. I no longer have an account there, and I even went for the nuclear option of overwriting all my old messages,

    then deleting them in case they chose to restore them, because:

    fuck spez

    For me personally it helps that I’m on a dedicated instance for Danes, so that’s kind of like a safe haven, or like a kiddie pool where it was easier to get to know lemmy at first.

    I no longer dread when someone replies because most of the people here on lemmy aren’t assholes. I think it’s because there’s this barrier to entry which filters out a lot of people, or maybe it’s that the assholes are looking for fights to begin with and is therefore attracted to the biggest platforms?

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      2 days ago

      I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote.

      I get that too. I turn off comment notifications now. It’s almost always just some negative basement dweller trolling me.

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      3 days ago

      Fuck Spez.

      Edit. Also you can just outright block the shit out of people who you know are problems.

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        block the shit out of people who you know are problems

        Funnily enough, I've mostly blocked NSFW stuff (and I'm not even a prude):

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            2 days ago

            I think it went like this: I was sorting by “top hour” and all I saw was this one person’s NSFW posts. I looked at their posts just now and it looks a lot less chaotic than what I branded them as originally, but you know, all it take is just one bad day on main.