That's totally fair. Was considering blocking this group because it's stressful watching so many down on their luck people asking for money. It was putting me on [more of ] a doomer path in a sort of learned helplessness way.
I totally get that, and that's why a big rule here is that this is the only place on the entire site where people are allowed to make these kinds of requests for money or help. Since lemmy allows you to block individual communities, no one need any engagement here they don't want. If you block the community, you'll still see the regular posts from users that frequent it, but you'll never even know they do it because the rules preclude bringing it up elsewhere.
This requirement is the main reason a block button for communities was implemented into lemmy in the first place, and as a result we see this community thriving only after that boundary become solidified. It's a step closer to getting a coherent system of informed content warnings going.
That's totally fair. Was considering blocking this group because it's stressful watching so many down on their luck people asking for money. It was putting me on [more of ] a doomer path in a sort of learned helplessness way.
I totally get that, and that's why a big rule here is that this is the only place on the entire site where people are allowed to make these kinds of requests for money or help. Since lemmy allows you to block individual communities, no one need any engagement here they don't want. If you block the community, you'll still see the regular posts from users that frequent it, but you'll never even know they do it because the rules preclude bringing it up elsewhere.
This requirement is the main reason a block button for communities was implemented into lemmy in the first place, and as a result we see this community thriving only after that boundary become solidified. It's a step closer to getting a coherent system of informed content warnings going.