Is there a way other than blocking users to stop seeing their bullshit?

Logging off and touching grass.

But this is the prevailing zeitgeist. You’re on Lemmy. Lemmy is online almost exclusively in western states. The Online West is a product of the western world. And the western world is rife with this ideology.

You’re going to keep running into this shit for the same reason you’re going to keep finding yourself stuck in car traffic, sucking down air pollution, and surrounded by shitty fast food.