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

Propaganda is the deliberate spreading of biased or misleading information, ideas, or rumors to influence public opinion and shape how people think and act. Instead of presenting all sides of an issue, it uses emotional appeal and selective facts to promote a specific cause, group, or leader. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

don't need to be an astroturfer to do this. lots of people who genuinely push their beliefs use propaganda to push it.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago

Good thing you're immune, though.