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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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

but i haven’t seen the users do anything.

It's not the users people block over, blocking an instance doesn't stop you from interacting with the users.

What it does, is block every community from that instance from your feed, that's it.

People block .ml, because while some decent communities may exist, their admins will see your comments elsewhere, then find any/all comments on their instance and either harass you or ban you.

The block just means you won't accidentally stumble into a place they control.

The minority of users who are really problematic, are likely to be banned everywhere else already

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

their admins will see your comments elsewhere, then find any/all comments on their instance and either harass you or ban you.

Citation lemmy.ml admins do this please? Also isn’t this technically possible with every single instance of Lemmy?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Citation lemmy.ml admins do this please?

Their instance modlog...

Also isn’t this technically possible with every single instance of Lemmy?

It's technically possible everyone ran an Epstein level child trafficking ring...

It would be insane to investigate everyone equally instead of just the people we know are doing it...

That should be obvious buddy

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow that went dark quickly. Not sure any of that was warranted

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Wow that went dark quickly

Wait till you hear about the "people's" revolution under Mao...

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Yep, that's exactly the point

[–] StankStain@lemmy.today -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People block .ml, because while some decent communities may exist, their admins will see your comments elsewhere, then find any/all comments on their instance and either harass you or ban you.

I'm not sure what you mean. If someone harasses you then you can just block them. If you block an instance it's users can still see your posts elsewhere and comment can't they? I don't politically align with the Lemmy devs but lemmy.ml is their instance and just like piefed, mbin, and others they can run their personal instance as they see fit. Isn't that the whole point of federation?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

If you block an instance it’s users can still see your posts elsewhere and comment can’t they?

Yes, I literally said that earlier in the comment you replied to...

blocking an instance doesn’t stop you from interacting with the users.

And...

they can run their personal instance as they see fit. Isn’t that the whole point of federation?

Yes, that's why I don't make posts that they need to change, I just chimed in and provided context for why blocking their instance so you don't accidentally stumble into their places...

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

average day in .world when people just make stuff up

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just because that admin hid how to check on their instance, doesn't mean they can hide it on every instance...

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&modId=855573

That's your main admin, constantly doing mod level moderation all over the place.

Anything they don't like, anywhere on their instance, they censor.

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

he's enforcing the instance rules, just like any other instance admin...

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So...

First you said it was made up...

I provided proof...

So now it's not made up, it's just totally cool that it happens.

You don't see any issue at all with lack of logical consistency?

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

you claimed that they do mod level moderation all over the place, deleting things they don't like

your "proof" was an admin enforcing the instance rules, which every good instance admin does.

edit: admin, not mod