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This is why "disable inbox replies" is such a great feature that I wish Lemmy would implement. For when you still have something to add, but it looks like the conversation is going downhill, the thought of further responses is causing anxiety, and you know the right choice is going to be to let the other person have the last word anyway.
The block feature is wonderful for this. I'm starting to use it liberally when I just can't be bothered to deal with someone anymore. I don't know if there's a mute user function as well, but that would at least let them yell into the void instead of being blocked outright.
iirc block on Lemmy is "mute" and it doesn't work like Reddit with preventing any interaction with any posts or comment threads you started (which I'm glad about, Reddit's block imo is a horrible way of doing it).
Personally I don't like the block feature for this for two reasons:
And I'm the opposite. When I block someone, it's because I'm sick and tired of that one person in particular and never want anything to do with them ever again. And for my own protection, I don't want them to be able to see me or interact with my comments ever again, regardless of whether I'll see that interaction or not.
Same, the main thing I'm getting at is, most of the time it's not like that
Yeah, my personal experience is the opposite where I find myself having to outright block people because I generally don't have an issue until outright blocking them is needed.
It would be great to have a "mute post/thread/comment" option that just stops any reply notifications for that specific item of yours. That way you don't have to select specific people to mute/block and it doesn't affect anything outside of that one specific comment of yours.
Yup, though on the upside notifications seem to only work half the time here.