that works for me, but I want to have good conversations with others, that’s kind of the point. Blocking terrible people doesn’t get that to happen

People here are blaming politics. I don’t think that’s it. The quality of comments and discussion here has taken a massive nosedive for the past four months or so, no matter what the topic is.

I think it’s pretty simple, the terrible won. Everyone who wants good quality discussion left quickly when people started to act terrible. They didn’t come back. So now we’ve created the toxic enabling environment that is enabling it hard today.

You can fix it with moderation, but that’s a lot of work, and people get really angry.

I’m pretty close to just cutting my losses on lemmy. It’s heading in the same direction as reddit but with less moderation, and simply because it’s smaller, the awfulness is more visible.

The reason reddit enhancement suite existed was because the developers couldn’t fix reddit. Lemmy is open source, the frontends are open source. You and anyone else who wants to can fix it.

There is no need for an extension.

Yes, yes, everyone knows what that is. The point is that it gives something even with the most strict filtering

Even if I set ddg to strict filtering it still shows a result.

So… taking social media to something that existed before Facebook isn’t rewinding?

A bit of space is nice sometimes, especially around titles