Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it's one of the best things I've ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I'd been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I'd blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I'd had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a "meme" implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you're saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell...

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[–] StankStain@lemmy.today 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

i'm new to my instance that isn't defederated from anything and I see an awful lot of whining about .ml hexbear and lemmygrad but i haven't seen the users do anything. i'm more annoyed by the whiners so far.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

but i haven’t seen the users do anything.

It's not the users people block over, blocking an instance doesn't stop you from interacting with the users.

What it does, is block every community from that instance from your feed, that's it.

People block .ml, because while some decent communities may exist, their admins will see your comments elsewhere, then find any/all comments on their instance and either harass you or ban you.

The block just means you won't accidentally stumble into a place they control.

The minority of users who are really problematic, are likely to be banned everywhere else already

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Yep, that's exactly the point

[–] StankStain@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

People block .ml, because while some decent communities may exist, their admins will see your comments elsewhere, then find any/all comments on their instance and either harass you or ban you.

I'm not sure what you mean. If someone harasses you then you can just block them. If you block an instance it's users can still see your posts elsewhere and comment can't they? I don't politically align with the Lemmy devs but lemmy.ml is their instance and just like piefed, mbin, and others they can run their personal instance as they see fit. Isn't that the whole point of federation?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

If you block an instance it’s users can still see your posts elsewhere and comment can’t they?

Yes, I literally said that earlier in the comment you replied to...

blocking an instance doesn’t stop you from interacting with the users.

And...

they can run their personal instance as they see fit. Isn’t that the whole point of federation?

Yes, that's why I don't make posts that they need to change, I just chimed in and provided context for why blocking their instance so you don't accidentally stumble into their places...

[–] helios@social.ggbox.fr 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Same. I don't block anything and it's perfectly fine tbh. So called "tankies" supposedly everywhere, but all I see are left-wing people.

[–] RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

As somebody who was able to see those before they got defederated: If they're not denying stuff like that Russia is the aggressor, then they have improved and the common conscious is just slow to forgive.

It was "they must be trolls" levels when I still saw them. Pure ragebait levels. And you did often get the feeling that they were just trying to be as edgy as possible.

[–] StankStain@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What's wrong with people expressing their opinion?

[–] RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You mean like JAQing off? Like trolls?

[–] raspirate@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

It feels like people are upset about running into users who are politically left-leaning... on federated social media.

That's like being upset about encountering queer people in the arts, or chuds in the weightlifting space, or conservatives at the gun range. What the hell did you expect?