Reply to their remark with a warning for other users then block them.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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Block users and instances is the only way.
On the internet, you're not likely to change their mind, like at all. But in person, if you can connect with someone and bring it back to family, and community, you can slowly change someone's mind and show them that they've been lied too. It doesn't happen overnight, but it can be done.
On the interwebs, don't even bother.
This topic always reminds me of this hero https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes
I want to see more people like him in this world. But I sure wouldn't have the guts to follow his steps.
Block user/community/instance.
Report if advocating for violence.
There's really isn't enough time to argue with everyone, and these people are probably used to being argued with, and might even take it as evidence of some big conspiracy. -- If you want to make changes in the word, there are more productive ways then arguing on obscure forums.
When Lemmy first got popular and all debates happened and such, I kept debating politely while they kept bashing, insulting and all that. Iβm over that.
When I see such opinions now, I block them. They are seriously not worth my time, energy and effort. Let them wallow in their misery.
They wonβt realize it but everything bad they hope happening to others will certainly bite them back sooner or later. The moment they do not fit their (own) ideology of fascism just a tiny bit, itβll bite them back.
They wonβt realize it but everything bad they hope happening to others will certainly bite them back sooner or later.
This applies to all of us. What we put out returns. It's easy to repay hate for hate, but...a lie travels quickly while truth endures and eventually prevails. I'm not saying do not defend ourselves where necessary; but to do so with sorrow and compassion.
I'd bet it is already happening to them, as they are almost always full of self hatred, bashing more and more because of it, like one runs faster and faster away from a car (I'm bad at metaphors).
Where are you encountering these types of conversations on Lemmy? I haven't hardly noticed any sort of debates or conversations like that here. I just figured most conservatives just avoid this place either because they are keeping to their own echo chambers or aren't smart enough to figure out how Lemmy works
Just turned up replying to me one day.
Track down their location
I do not have "a particular set of skills".
Report them, block them.
You may feel that they go unapposed and therefore you should be a countering force, but really your efforts are moot. People have their beliefs that wonβt be changed online, at least not from some internet stranger. You can make the best arguments in the world and the opposition will simply ignore your point, move the goalposts, and implement the next logical fallacy to keep proving you βwrongβ or βan idiotβ.
Wow, yeah I think this was playing in my mind. You hit the nail on the head. I'll just block the idiot.
Block em
I tag them as 'shit-head' and don't engage with them.
blocking/not blocking doesnt 'allow' them anything cept maybe free rent in your brain... doesnt affect them at all.
i tend to ignore them. my blocklist is very small
We have different psychologies. Ignoring is less of an option for some of us. But "out of sight, out of mind."
im not saying one is better than the other, just that your experience is not affecting other humans.
whether you block or ignore.. no one else knows what youre doing, so youre not 'influencing' anyone else.
Open hostility. Anywhere nazis are welcome, no one else is.
Fight fire with fire. Assume their gender. π
My answer is that it depends on several factors. The first and least impactful thing you can do (and that's in terms of both you and the other person) is to just block them. Next step up is that if they're not on a big instance that you get content from regularly, just block their instance. After that, report them to your instance owner - they might get blocked from interacting with your instance. And the more heavy-duty action is to reach out to their instance owner with evidence and make your concerns known - then if they get booted, you can continue as you were; and if they don't, block the instance.
Block and move on. Not everyone has to have same opinion as you in a forum.
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Memes.