Yes, except a few selected communities I completely avoid interacting with lemmy.ml

I have fomo so I don't block anything. I'll downvote and move on if I see something that I feel needs a downvote

hell i went one step further and abandoned lemmy entirely for mbin

Personally, I don't. I get from your story that you seem to have been abusively banned, and from the comments that it doesn't seem like an isolate case. But while that might deter me from making an account there, or at most from having a community hosted there, it's not like anything bad comes to me from merely interacting with .ml content. The only servers worth blocking in my opinion are those full of spammers, or of content I'd personally hate to see in any situation.

Blocked the whole thing on my instance.

Nah, IDGAF about it one way or another. You run into more jerks there than average, but that's about it, so as long as block lists function, it's all good

I refrain from participating in and even from looking at any community that generates anxiety and/or anger, or that encourage or don't oppose what I consider destructive or hostile behaviors. I consider time too precious to waste mine with the kind of persons who enjoy those things.

It is not related to any specific place, though. It's mostly a question of the persons participating and of the moderators.

While I have not blocked the instance (yet), I purposely try not to post anything on any community hosted there and rather look for alternatives. Sometimes it's easier to comment and or post on an ml instance due to it being larger in user size such as the !privacy@lemmy.ml vs !privacy@lemmy.world - but in these cases I will crosspost too.

Yes. I'll read the content, but I try to avoid interacting.

~~Mind you, db0 himself is a tankie, although he doesn't seem to insist on imposing that on the users or communities on his instance.~~

EDIT: I stand corrected. Apologies to db0 for lumping him in with that crowd.

I've declined the opportunity to Mod a community on lemmy.ml, which is really not like me.

No. I self-censor a bit there, and prefer other instances so I don't have to, though.

Ah, the daily whinge-fest on Lemmy.world. In my 3 decades using the internet, I have never found online communities that are so consistently in opposition to US propaganda as the .ml's and hexbear. .World is so militantly US-liberal it puts reddit to shame. You can find such opinions all over the internet, but real left wing politics are much rarer since you basically have to self-host them, unlike the corporate friendly liberal and fascist politics.

Not exclusively, but I do think twice before posting to a community hosted there, and actively seek out alternatives if possible. The only two I haven't found alternatives for are c/crows and c/freecad.

If you move sim racing, would you mind replying to me to let me know? I follow the current one just cause I think sim racing is neat. If it gets moved I'd love to follow the new one

(Totally fine if that's too much work :)

I definitely try to avoid it. Whenever there's an (active) alternative community available, I prefer that.

I block politics subs and have never had an issue with lemmy.ml. All the issues I see are related to politics.

I think it's generally best to host communities on politically neutral instances

I generally don’t worry about communities. Either the community is well run or not.

Users, though. I’ll block trolls all day long. If I notice I’m blocking a whole bunch of users from the same instance, I’ll block the instance. So far that has only happened twice. Lemmygrad and feddit.ro.

What’s wrong with lemmy.ml?

I don’t refrain from participating in Lemmy.ml community unless the mods of that community act like the admins do. The majority of users aren’t my issue with Lemmy.ml at least on the non political communities, it’s the admin’s suppression of opposition

No. People complaining about ml are exaggerating.

Depends on the community and what has been posted. If it's something simple like AskLemmy and people aren't being super weird or preachy about communism or whatever, I don't find harm. I personally don't think I've had any bad experiences with them outside of the time I said I didn't trust a certain news outlet, which I cannot remember the name of.

I block all .ml communities when I see them pop up. I'm somewhere between 200-300 blocked communities at the moment (not exclusively .ml though).

Also blocked it.