Every day, I see absolutely moronic comments getting upvoted while perfectly reasonable takes are downvoted. This would be a great opportunity to curate your feed by blocking these users en masse. Active curation like this is the only way to make social media even half-tolerable.
Whether you use it to filter out toxic users or to build an echo chamber, I think everyone should be free to do so. No one should be forced to share space with people they feel bring no value to the discussion - or, worse, make it more toxic.
OK but there are people you just don’t want to see and that shouldn’t be able to bother you. Just because you project what you would do on others doesn’t mean that others will do that. The current block on Lemmy is just a hide feature, every other social media has a working block feature.
A echo chamber comes when toxic assholes can troll normal people out of Lemmy, wich is the current state of matter.