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I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don't actually think everyone there is insane. I don't care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It's not going to scare me to take this down

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago (12 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And increasingly lemmy.ml, sadly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They're getting there, but so far it's only a few users that I've noticed.

One guy seems to be following me around to attempt mockery.

They're very much getting to "everyone who isn't farther left than me is a right-wing nazi" mentality.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (41 children)

They aren’t even really left. They are super authoritarian.

I blocked them since they spew Russian and Chinese propaganda points and take revisionist stances on Tianman square and deny the Uyghur Genocide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mostly agree with you, but that's the reason why I picked an instance that does not block them: sometimes it is good to see the world from a different point of view. And it's not like the other Lemmy instances are completely free of propaganda either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it is when you’re not affected by them I guess. But their rampant ableism and transphobia would have made me leave lemmy if there wasn’t a way to block.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ableism? Transphobia? Where mao-aggro-shining

time for some bans it seems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

One of the mods is an actual Russian troll. [email protected]

Pro-Russian mod who keeps pretending they're not.

"If those kids could read..." meme would be fitting lol

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

There's at least one interesting fellow in this very thread sharing extremely predictable opinions.

I thought I was annoying when arguing. Still do, but I found someone worse. Doesn't make me feel better, because it seems I'm sharing a table with them.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How are you blocking full instances? I’ve been playing wack-a-mole blocking communities. I’m using Voyager on iOS, if that matters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Keep in mind that user-level instance blocks are not the same as instance-level defederations. AFAIK, it only blocks the communities. You'll still see comments and posts from that instance in other communities and that instance will still influence your feed with their votes.

It is better to go to an instance that defederates or to convince your current admin to defederate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You go to settings -> filters & blocks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Th ability to do so was added a while back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That looks like Thunder! You should check out the latest version; it has an improved Block Management page.

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