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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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Damn, it's been awhile since I've seen one of these "greetings fellow leftists" posts whining about .ml.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Gotta throw Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Exploding Heads in there too if your instance hasn't defederated from 'em.

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[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use Lemmy.world. I don’t see any of this drama, about cat food or leftists. I do see posts that used to be regular at Reddit, with decent discussion.

[–] dil@piefed.zip 9 points 2 months ago

will never see any piracy posts either

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

People were complaining about .ml long before I thought it was justified, but I looked again recently and yeah, maybe. This instance doesn't federate with it so I don't see it often. Based on my quick impressions the other day it's gotten worse. Not that it's an "echo chamber" and I don't mind hanging out with communists, but there's too much low-quality noise.

Personally I wouldn't block the whole server if it were up to me. There are still good people there. Just be quick to block the people and posts you really object to.

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[–] torarg@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for recommending lemmy.ml 🚩

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welcome!

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[–] liking625@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (13 children)

When everything is extreme and far right, any attempt to common sense will seem far far to the left.

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[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago

Hay thats what I say about .world and pfied.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

JFC.

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