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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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why not just use your subscriptions? People use all and then act all entitled when they have to deal with everything. It's weird.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nobody is acting entitled. Maybe with small size of lemmy, opting out is better than subscribing to individual communities?

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

bingo.

not everyone wants to live in an echo chamber. but we also don't want to be blasted in the face with crazy people who tell us to kill ourselves because we own a car.

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I tried that in the past, removed a lot of fun communities that had the problem i've described in the post - turns out my subscritptions feed became a lot emptier and the problem only spread to the ones i stayed on.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you just don't want to admit you are becoming more conservative while everyone else moves on to more logical perspectives?

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

maybe user just wants to use the internet without random strangers trying to constantly put arbitrary labels on them and using such labels as justification for harassment?

it's almost as if other people use the internet in other ways than you do. not everyone is here to push an agenda or play politics police.