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?

  • RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years 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.xyzEnglish
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      2 years 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.worldEnglish
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        2 years 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.

      • RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years 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.xyzEnglish
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          2 years 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.worldEnglish
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            2 years 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.xyzEnglish
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              2 years 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