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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[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Lmao "far left propaganda" what's that? Everyone should be fed and housed, equal rights?

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

I can list you a few talkpoints that repeat

China and russia are good places to live in and are better to be than the west because they're "comunist"
Russian isn't the agressor in the russo-ukranian war and ukrainians are nazis
Capitalism bad and comunism good posts dropped in comunitires dedicated to comedy but with no punchlines at all
Just about everything i don't agree with is US imperialism
Nato bad

It's quite distinct from actual leftist talkpoints, like equal housing, equal rights, and universal public servives from everyone - they don't seem to care about any of that

[–] nixukty@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 hours ago

Whining about .ml takes up more of my feed than .ml

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

thank you for your virtue signaling!

[–] UndergroundParking@lemmy.cafe 3 points 5 hours ago

There are instances that do not federate with .ml. The one I'm on is such.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

Hay thats what I say about .world and pfied.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

My lemmy experience got soooo much better once I blocked ~~hexbear and~~ ml instances. Kudos to you for your peace of mind.

[–] FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Unless you're talking about a different account, .world was never at any point federated with hexbear due to "preemptively defederating them as a last resort"

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I am probably misremembering what I blocked then

[–] FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah no worries, stuff happens lol

[–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

I won't block anyone even if their straight up assholes because even a broken clock is right twice a day and I actually have learned some information that was true from them.

That being said though the ones who say North Korea is a utopia and USA is fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine (true) but that Russia giving drones and military equipment to Iran isn't the same thing and that isn't a proxy war or that Mao was some sort hero of the people (I could definitely go on from here) those people are idiots and its very easy to look up anything they say and see that its complete bullshit.

I'm still not gonna block them. Hit them with an "Ok" and move on with your day. As soon as you pull out the graphs or cite multiple sources they will just ban you so there's no point in fucking with them. Until they post on here from North Korea and prove us all wrong, you can easily disregard any of the bullshit they say.

That said the ONE person I have ever blocked on Lemmy was someone who posted a cartoon picture of a little kids butt on the self hosted community. I still don't understand what that was about and I not only blocked them but reported them for that too. But other than child stuff, I probably won't ever block anyone even if they're complete assholes.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I just switch to my subscribed instances when I get tired of All.

[–] cosmos8188@leminal.space 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Thats the correct answer. If too much stupid stuff gets past the block filters its handy just to switch to the subscribed tab.

Of course this may not get rid of people posting tiring stuff on the subscribed instances, but block filters also seem to work for communities - honestly, thats what I mainly use as instance blocks seem too overboard. Overtly sexist or ageist instances get blocked tho.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Same goes for any sub - that's what the Block feature is for, folks. Not necessarily to insulate yourself from different points of view - some subs are just the same shit over and over.

[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 14 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

It sure would be swell if people could, at the very least, elevate to a 2d view of politics. Hearing the majority of quadrants II, III, and IV all referred to all "far-left" is confusing at best.

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