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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

On a tangent, is it possible to block/ignore lemmygrad and it's users? They are obviously trolling here with good old whataboutism and russo talking points

Edit: corrected the stupid spelling of this stupid place

[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Heads up, I can assure you the Lemmygrad and Hexbear folks are not trolling. They are legitimate believers of Chinese/Russian/North Korean talking points, and some of them even live there

Welcome to the federated Internet

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So real fascists taking over the biggest lemmy instance then?

Don't know what to think about Lemmy right now tbh. Most of the content is quite based, awesome, fresh memes, and especially the programming stuff js top notch.

But the amount of russo shit and antisemitism is on another level...

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One reason why lemm.ee might not be the best newbie instance, most others have lemmygrad and hexbear defederated (read: blocked). You can block them yourself in your profile settings, or you can move to a different instance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That depends on who your instance is federated with. Personally I have never seen any posts from them.

I think you can easily block their instances, but sure it's not the best starting point for new users.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Lemmy.ca is a nice instance if you are looking for one that blocks those instances. The fascists were here before people from reddit started moving over, but as people started coming over that aspect started getting diluted. Now you just have to choose an instance that doesn't federate with them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's everyone right to have an opinion, regardless of what their political affiliation is, as long as it doesn't devolve into extremism.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They tend to smother level-headed discussions with their propaganda though. Sadly this is not how the internet works, and certainly seems to be a problem in Lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Indeed and what I also love about federation is it is also within your rights to not give people a platform or be forced to listen to them. If people don't like what they have to say then they will still be able to shout but only into the void and echo chambers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In Voyager I can block instances in the settings. Not sure if thatโ€™s only voyager/specific apps or if thatโ€™s a Lemmy default.

Besides that, migrating to an instance that has defederated from lemmygrad also works. Iโ€™m on lemmy.world and Iโ€™ve never seen anything from 'grad.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ditto. Iโ€™m using this instance right now and I have never seen any of them so why donโ€™t you come on over here? Itโ€™s nicer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You can always check the /instances endpoint of every lemmy server to see its blocked instances.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If you are using the Connect app for Lemmy, you can block Hexbear and Lemmygrad in the settings. I did that as well.