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Yes I am talking about lemmy.ml.

These little pissants keep coming out of the woodwork with their ridiculous political extremism and while I can block them each and all individually it's like playing whack-a-mole.

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[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 2 points 14 minutes ago
[–] BlindPenguin@piefed.social 1 points 7 minutes ago

piefed allows for blocking of entire instances. Blocking the tankie instances was the first thing i did.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 54 minutes ago

I wish there was a way to auto block anyone who uses certain phrases. Some of the shit stains proudly self identify themselves with their language and no matter how many times I try to consider maybe this person is different, they never are.

[–] remon@ani.social 13 points 1 hour ago

Nope. Easiest solution would be to move your account to an instance that doesn't federate with lemmy.ml in the first place.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

You can do it with the connect app

[–] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

Yeah, a bunch of clients have instance blocks. Jerboa does.

[–] localhorst@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

We're not all the same, you know. There's also a lot of decent people over here.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

There are decent people in Israel as well. Let's see how many downvotes I get for saying this.

[–] localhorst@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know? I don't quite get your point.

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 12 points 47 minutes ago

Did you steal my username, be honest

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

And so... would you want to block all israeli people? That'd be the analagous situation. What is it you're trying to say?

If it's just what you want on your own app that's fine, of course - to each their own.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 7 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

You know that adage about how a bar turns into a Nazi bar? (Don't get hung up on the word 'Nazi'. The type of asshole is irrelevant to my point.) The decent ones are just the wedge.

The fedi-verse is big enough for me without assholes and asshole apologists.

[–] localhorst@lemmy.ml -2 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

I'm afraid assholes (of any kind of extreme) are everywhere. I block them, too. Doesn't mean I can't keep staying in that bar.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

You've missed the point, I'm afraid. The bar is someone's individual feed, and the bartender is their blocklist (or their server's federation list) deciding who gets to stay and who is thrown out on their ear.

[–] localhorst@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 minutes ago

Alright, then. I don't like the idea of throwing out anyone just because they share the same instance. But it's everyone's own decision.

I don't care at all about instances, I even mostly disabled it showing. If someone sucks, bye bye. If they're decent, they're welcome. Sure, it's more work, but I hate to put people in groups.

[–] tty5@lemmy.world 4 points 56 minutes ago

But the percentage of those who are not so great there is significantly higher than on any popular instance that I know. Yes, blocking everyone is not ideal, but it's a valid low effort way of improving your experience.

[–] remon@ani.social 4 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

There’s also a lot of decent people over here.

Exactly, I'm also just hanging around the nazi bar for the free buffet!

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 1 points 45 minutes ago (2 children)

They're here. Nice bait OP. 😹

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

I'm honestly not trying to bait.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 0 points 47 minutes ago

Sounds like you had a frustrating experience. Sorry about that.

[–] antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml -3 points 50 minutes ago (3 children)

Calling out stupid liberal takes is political extremism sure. I don't see a lot of extremists on lemmy.ml just a lot of salient takes that liberals don't like to have to reckon with.

[–] localhorst@lemmy.ml 4 points 29 minutes ago

Now let's be fair. I've seen a lot of hateful comments, often openly advocating for ending someone's life just for being rich assholes and the like. If that isn't extreme, then what is? It seems like when things become ideological, shit heats up instantly and people lose their ability to keep their emotions in check.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 36 minutes ago

No matter how many times you pretend your "enemies" like bad things as long as Democrats do them, or how many derisive labels you hurl at us, or anything else you do to make yourself feel better, none of it will ever be seen as constructive criticism, because it very clearly is nothing remotely akin to that. We both know your intent is never to have anyone reckon with anything. Your intent is to spray hatred in an attempt to feel righteous. Too bad you'll never actually feel good about yourself. Shoulda blocked you a LONG time ago but that's getting rectified in a moment.

[–] Stormy@thelemmy.club 0 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Obviously you dont see it, you're one of them.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Again with this tired old shit.