I found that things became much more pleasant on here when I blocked hexbear. I recently blocked lemmy.ml as well, but I may reverse that if I find that I’m missing too much good content.
I’m open to other ideas on how to mostly avoid people who love conflict or argue in bad faith.
Are you saying when you disagree with one of said mods there’s some kind of downvote campaign for your posts for a certain amount of time?
Sounds like it, squid acts an 80’s movie mall cop. So him having alt accounts to downvoted people wouldn’t surprise me. I banned him a few weeks ago. My feed immediately improved.
I blocked him a couple days ago finally. He’s a hateful prick, glad to be rid of his nonsense.