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Block lemmy.ml if lemmy feels tirening. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 hours ago by richardisaguy@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I think Lemmy is radicalizing.

It’s not just Lemmy.ml either. I used to love dbz0, almost switched from lemmy.world, but now all the non-political content is withering away, and most of what I see is just absolutist, anarchist post. The admin is fine with explicit calls to violence against pretty much anyone.

And that’s fine. It’s their instance, they can their thing. But it’s so extreme I don’t even find satisfaction interacting with the instance anymore, like it’s a single community with one topic.

And I don’t mean to single them out. I have similar feelings from many instances, including Lemmy.world.

I’ve even seen some pretty extreme stuff on blajah, which I used to picture as a wholesome LGBTQ+ instance! Which I adore… until it’s not so wholesome.

What’s worse, Lemmy users don’t seem to care.

I’ll point out some off-topic discussion in a thread, and I just get piled on. Like, not every single Lemmy conversation has to involve statements about western imperialism or the futility of democracy or whatever, but apparently it does on Lemmy.ml, and it feels like it’s spreading.

That was more of a rant than I intended.

But I am concerned about this new internet place I like. I’ve seen one or two other Reddit clones wither away from political radicalization, too.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You’re not wrong, dbzer0 is fine with people having profiles like this:

I think israel is committing war crimes and genocide right now and need to be reined in and leaders put in jail but calling for blanket murders like this is over the line.

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 1 hour ago

If someone's talking about kill all Zionist soldiers, I think that's fine. There's a war on, and soldiers have to die for wars to end. Same with the politicians, that's fine.

But if someone's saying kill all zionists, and they're also talking about civilians, well... There is no anarchist way to exterminate a group of civilians like that. The only way to do that kind of violence is with a state killing apparatus. You know, a death penalty.

And as an anarchist, I don't support the death penalty. Governments cannot be trusted with power over death, it's too much. Anyone saying "kill all zionists" and advocating for a death penalty is not an anarchist. Those people should be banned from any self respecting anarchist instance.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I don’t think they should be banned but they should be made aware that that’s unacceptable behavior for any instance.

[-] Tippy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 hours ago

Just use tesseract and have us all automatically blocked then if we're all scary radicals. I see you were defending admiral patrick a few weeks ago, surprised you aren't hiding behind it still. It's right there for anyone who needs everything sanitized and corporate approved for them.

Leftism and pro LGBTQIA comms are not radical, violent, or terroristic, and trying to suggest they are is going to get you shit on here. It's by design to keep the fash out. Lemmy is overwhelmingly a leftist space, and most leftists have no problem with telling it how it is, especially during the largest global resurgence in fascism since WWII.

At a certain point, if everyone around you is a problem, maybe you should consider the possibility that the source of your discomfort is much more localized.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I was not defending the tesseract dev, what they did is inexcusable. That app can burn.

I sympathized with them some, though. I get what they were trying to do in their head, on some level.

If you think the more extreme parts of Lemmy are representative of “everyone around you,” as in the larger public in my life, I don’t even know where to begin with that. We live in different worlds I guess.

[-] Tippy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Correct, I don't surround myself with Enlightened Centrists© who think a little fascism is okay as a treat.

If you think being left of Newsom and supporting marginalized communities is extremism, you don't belong here, simple as. None of us will miss you when you go back to reddit and twitter.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

But what are your thoughts on western imperialism and the futility of democracy?

;-)

[-] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Okay just block them, and block everything else you dont want to see, idk yeah theyre a bunch of crazy wannabe communists, i agree we all agree, just block and move on, like what else is there? Doxx them? That makes no sense, right?

it's crazy people who are butthurt ivan drago lost in rocky iv, they're not worth your attention -- quite frankly this couldn't be a better advertisement for lemmy.mi or whatever it is. So i guess that's my rant, stop reacting with content you don't like. If something real and local to your geography is happening, yes, go to a protest, volunteer helping underserved communities. But if it's on freaking social media (federated or otherwise) just block and move on, dont feed into it. We don't even know what corner of the world they actually live in. Think about all the horrible people in the world in positions of power -- they all get tons of negative attention online and they harness that negative attention into real-world benefits for them.