ditto

Not to kinkshame/judge (while judging) but lemmynsfw is super weird. There’s like 50 celebrity or more communities all ran by one guy who uploads like one picture or 50 in a row. I just browse by all but the NSFW filter protects me from seeing a celebrity every 10th post.

I just blocked individual hexbear and lemmygrad users that were annoying (posting pig anuses or dogpiling/gish galloping/whatabouting). Took a lot of blocking, but a few hundred blocks later later, most of the hexbears and tankies left are pretty chill. I don’t want to end up in a bubble and only hear opinions I already agree with. I think I did block one far right instance entirely, cause I don’t value the ideas of bigots and fascists. Can’t remember who it was though.

I wish there was an additional option to block all users of an instance separate from the instance block that applies to communities.

I have thought about that and wondered: how would child comments under a blocked user be handled? If I was on Instance_A and able to block Instance_B to no longer see comments from those users, what about the other Instance_A users (who have not blocked Instance_B) who reply to Instance_B comments on an Instance_A thread? Would I still see those Instance_A comments, and the Instance_B comments in the comment chain just appear blank or something? Or would the entire comment chain, starting at the Instance_B comment, just not get displayed to you at all?

I wish there was an additional option to block all users of an instance separate from the instance block that applies to communities.

There is an option for that, its called Defederation

Are you saying when you disagree with one of said mods there’s some kind of downvote campaign for your posts for a certain amount of time?

Thanks for not putting blinders on. I was actually banned by hexbear for not being leftist enough but I still make it a point to seek out perspectives that differ from the censorship-happy tribalist hivemind on world. Communist leopards have yet to eat my face contrary to what the libs on world might have me believe. :)

I definitely agree with this. I signed up with ml just because it was a big instance and generally found it confusing when first setting up an account. So far I think it’s worked out because they have good up time and haven’t insulated themselves too much compared to a lot of instances that will defederate at the drop of a hat. Hexbear can be hard to read at times because many users can turn so hateful so quickly, but I do think their perspective can be at the very least interesting even when it is clearly misguided.

I do strongly dislike that every large instance has formed its own stereotype and opinions are immediately dismissed if they are coming from an instance that is stereotyped as having ‘bad options’.

That might explain it then. Everybody’s talking about blocking hexbear, and I’ve never had any idea what they were talking about, but I’m on .world, so I guess it’s already blocked for me.

You should block Hexbear because its just a broad daylight CCP advocate forum trying to incite political extremism and violence in English speaking countries.

Lemmy ml isn’t all bad but they federate and align themselves closely with Hexbear.

I have a huge number of content filters, basically stopping just short of blocking the words “left” and “right” but trying to block everything else political.

What I wish I could find a way to do is pick by post language - I have nothing against a user/community, I just don’t speak (usually) German.

HOOORAY SHOUT OUT !🙌🙌🙌🙌

Pretty much this. Plus the dozens of cute anime girl communities and anything furry.

That’s the beehaw instance

you can block the instance but when the users are on other communities, it does not block the users

nobody is going to answer your question because its a sealioning like question coming from a user on lemmy.ml

.world is neoliberal lumpen who violently reject anything that threatens their politician’s current narrative. They’re not thinking for themselves. They can’t discern left from right, thus reject both with equal hostility.

If you never browse all, you probably miss it, but anything which is politics or news adjacent is filled with campist brain rot from people who think “socialism” is relitigating the cold war. Then you will get banned for saying things like “remember that time Russia shot down a civilian airliner?” or “I don’t think sexual violence is a right of the oppressed.”

I can see your comment, and I don’t think that everybody on .ml is a troll. They just seem to have an awful lot of them, and I have no idea what the reason is. People arguing in bad faith, etc.

I enjoy reading the comments, but the top comments from most of the .ml-origin posts always seem to degenerate into name calling, and very quickly at that. The criticisms other people have called out further down in this thread sound accurate to me.

And clearly it isn’t just me seeing this, since somebody is downvotimg your perfectly polite posts in this thread. (It isn’t me.)

the tech side of .ml is why I haven’t blocked that instance. They genuinely care about privacy and FOSS, as is the instance description. When I joined lemmy, I considered .ml for my home instance.

As soon as politics comes up though, the tankies come out in force, and oh boy the temptation to get banned is real.

The instance your are on may be blocking it?

TBH, I spend way way too much time browsing all, and don’t see all that much.

I will say it does tend to run in spurts, you’ll see like a dozen posts at once then none the rest of the day

You may want to register another account with lemmy.nsfw