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…

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    264·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • bibbasa@piefed.socialEnglish
    41·
    6 days ago

    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!

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.caEnglish
    1914·
    7 days ago

    I wouldn’t need a “clean” front page because I don’t feel threatened by people having different opinions than me. I wish you good luck with your clean front page and clean mind. Hopefully you can find some peace now.

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipEnglish
    85·
    6 days ago

    I won’t block anyone even if they’re straight up assholes because even a broken clock is right twice a day and I actually have learned some information that was true from them.

    That being said though the ones who say North Korea is a utopia and USA is fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine (true) but that Russia giving drones and military equipment to Iran isn’t the same thing and that isn’t a proxy war or that Mao was some sort hero of the people (I could definitely go on from here) those people are idiots and its very easy to look up anything they say and see that its complete bullshit.

    I’m still not gonna block them. Hit them with an “Ok” and move on with your day. As soon as you pull out the graphs or cite multiple sources they will just ban you so there’s no point in fucking with them. Until they post on here from North Korea and prove us all wrong, you can easily disregard any of the bullshit they say.

    That said the ONE person I have ever blocked on Lemmy was someone who posted a cartoon picture of a little kids butt on the self hosted community. I still don’t understand what that was about and I not only blocked them but reported them for that too. But other than child stuff, I probably won’t ever block anyone even if they’re complete assholes.

  • stickyprimer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    7 days ago

    I’m giving this a try.

    Not sure if it’s my issue, because I don’t really see much pro-China / pro-Russia crap. But I am exhausted by the nonstop extreme left groupthink.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    7 days ago

    My lemmy experience got soooo much better once I blocked hexbear and ml instances. Kudos to you for your peace of mind.

  • ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zipEnglish
    21·
    7 days ago

    What if social networks had public blocklists that users could decide to use or not for themselves? It could be run like a comm, but slightly different. A user would create the blocklist and ultimately control it. “Posts” to the list could be proposals for additions or removals of users, comms, or instances. Votes on those posts guide the mod(s) on accepting the change or not. Apps could subscribe and update automatically.

    I’ve been thinking about this ever since the tesseract debacle.