And for some, that’s absolutely the best solution!

To me, the fediverse is already pretty small so I don’t like blocking and making it smaller. So, personally, my compromise is to see everything but consider the source before responding etc.

(And judicious use of piefed’s user note system; good ol’ vomitty face for the unpleasant non .ml folks and a big ol’ smile for the sane seeming .ml peoples!)

.world has its share of awful and part of why I rock piefed, but I chalk a lot of that up to essentially being the default instance.

Haha, sorry, shooting gallery is, admittedly old, slang for an area where people do drugs without consequence. Comes from when heroin was the big scourge.

In Vancouver, Hastings is a super sketchy area that breaks your heart to see (and sometimes, your bones. An elderly friend is in one of the social housing projects there and was hospitalized awhile ago after some asshole shoved her to the ground and stole her purse.) But it is also right next to one of the nicer touristy kind of areas so you’ll occasionally see very bewildered tourists or young folk new to the city terrified and out of place.

You’re not wrong!

I’m just shitty and kinda lazy. I’m usually trying to make memes between other things and after fussing about, don’t feel like spending the extra time to write it out.

I wish there was an option to outsource that to the community so folks who maybe don’t post as much could help by providing alt texts or something.

My last .ml meme was 2 months ago. I guess I should be proud that it bugged you enough to burn into your memory like that?

But yeah, warning new fediverse users that there are awful places and the whole fediverse ain’t like that, well, that seems a polite way to improve the user experience and help new folks.

I love my city but I also generally warn visitors about our open air shooting gallery a few hundred meters away from the entertainment district for much the same reason.

The best jokes have a lot of truth to them!

Love the user name! If you browse through the comments, other folks have had the same question answered.