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    3 days ago

    Also unhelpful, since, if you look at my comment history, I was already aware of the Costco butter fiasco and had made a snarky comment about it.

    Are you insinuating Google is reading your Lemmy comments and pushing you news recommendations based on those?




  • That is an interesting thought. I do see a potential risk in basing your block list on someone else’s when they hold a position of power or influence, though.

    If a popular person want to suppress engagement of a less popular person, they could add them to their block list, prompting their “block followers” to do the same. This could have a bad impact on Lemmy engagement if it was being (ab)used for such purposes.

    I try to minimise the amount of individuals I block though. Most of them are bots and I would hate to miss a good post or comment by someone just because they made a bad one elsewhere. Your mileage may vary, of course.