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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Whining about .ml takes up more of my feed than .ml
People should block users and instances that they dont want to see. They are in charge of their account. Then you wont have to feudpost about these people you blocked because you wont see them.
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I just scrolled a few pages on that instance and it seems like youre being dramatic.
It sure would be swell if people could, at the very least, elevate to a 2d view of politics. Hearing the majority of quadrants II, III, and IV all referred to all “far-left” is confusing at best.
Hay thats what I say about .world and pfied.
I just switch to my subscribed instances when I get tired of All.
I barely ever see any such things on my feed. The most problematic users I’ve come across were from lemmy.world.
thank you for your virtue signaling!
Damn, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen one of these “greetings fellow leftists” posts whining about .ml.
When everything is extreme and far right, any attempt to common sense will seem far far to the left.
Thanks for recommending lemmy.ml 🚩
i’ve been fedi-curious for a while now and dragged my feet on the threadiverse for the longest time because my first impression of it was all the tankie stuff, i just assumed the whole thing was tankies and shuned the threadiverse entirely. after learning about piefed, and seeing discussions around lemmy in general, i realized it was more complicated and decided to give it a second chance via piefed. i’ve been relatively active for a few months now!
Doing this is fine, making this post about it is pathetic attention seeking loser behavior
Same goes for any sub - that’s what the Block feature is for, folks. Not necessarily to insulate yourself from different points of view - some subs are just the same shit over and over.
