Is there a way to shop around for a Lemmy instance based on how many instances are blocking it and how many instances it’s blocking? For example, I noticed that the lemmygrad.ml instance is relatively popular, but it seems like a lot of other instances block it. It also blocks a bunch of other instances. So, if there are any communities on there that might be relevant to me then I would be missing out. I guess I could just create an account on a walled instance, but I would prefer not to keep creating accounts. I’d like to just find one instance that maximizes my access. Is the answer to just run my own instance?

  • @salarua@sopuli.xyz
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    2211 months ago

    Lemmygrad isn’t blocked because of their views, it’s blocked because it’s a massive troll farm. the posts that you see don’t include the replies they make to posts which they deem not communist enough, where they sealion and argue in bad faith until the op is driven out

    • @RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world
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      111 months ago

      And that doesn’t apply to liberals and every other ideology on this site? Every person has a political view which affects their opinions

      • @salarua@sopuli.xyz
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        211 months ago

        if a liberal/anarchist/not-ML instance popped up and started behaving like Lemmygrad does, they’d get mass-defederated too. like i said, it’s not their views they got defederated for, it’s their behavior

        • @RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world
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          111 months ago

          Behaviour like what though? Disagreeing? I don’t even know what ‘sealioning’ means, it basically seems like just saying ‘this person has different fundamental assumptions to me therefore they’re acting in bad faith’.

          • @salarua@sopuli.xyz
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            11 months ago

            Lemmygrad has a history of brigading communities, targeted harassment towards admins and prolific political posters, and as i mentioned before, sealioning (defined by Wikipedia as “a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (‘I’m just trying to have a debate’), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter”)

            • @RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world
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              111 months ago

              But how do you differentiate ‘brigading’ from just being outside the ideological orthodox of a given community? Shouldn’t bad actors just be banned personally?

              • @salarua@sopuli.xyz
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                211 months ago

                they mass-report and/or mass-downvote people they don’t see as communist enough and drown out any good-faith discussion in the comments

        • @RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world
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          111 months ago

          To be fair it’s not like I know what lemmygrad does, I only joined yesterday, but it just seems like typical ‘tankiephobia’, I don’t exactly agree with MLs on everything either but some of what they get accused of is just beyond the pale. I mean generally if someone is a western liberal they don’t get endlessly accused of being a mass war crime apologist even though that’s basically what the ‘war on terror’ was.