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