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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[–] nixukty@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Whining about .ml takes up more of my feed than .ml

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I barely ever see any such things on my feed. The most problematic users I've come across were from lemmy.world.

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[–] bibbasa@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 2 days ago

Welcome!

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 83 points 4 days ago (57 children)

Having mindless tankies parrot ccp and russian propaganda is getting tiring.

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[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago

thank you for your virtue signaling!

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago

Hay thats what I say about .world and pfied.

[–] PointlessLifePersonified@slrpnk.net 65 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Don't be surprised if you find hexbear giving you similar twitches.

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 days ago (73 children)

Could someone give some examples of these leftist propaganda posts? I just browse all top day, maybe they get diluted enough for me to overlook these.. i've seen this argument pass by so many times.

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[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 21 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I just scrolled a few pages on that instance and it seems like youre being dramatic.

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[–] StankStain@lemmy.today 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (49 children)

i'm new to my instance that isn't defederated from anything and I see an awful lot of whining about .ml hexbear and lemmygrad but i haven't seen the users do anything. i'm more annoyed by the whiners so far.

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[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I just switch to my subscribed instances when I get tired of All.

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[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 17 points 4 days ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] Pika@hikki.team 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (16 children)

Experimenting with blocklists is fine and how you find your comfort zone on Lemmy.

I once made an experiment in which I blocked lemmy.world - not out of spite, but to just see what the rest of Lemmy has to offer. Turns out, quite much!

Still, too many niche communities are hosted on .world, so here I am again.

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