Just check out any news article outside Lemmy.world on the Ukrainian war or China.

It always gets flooded by accounts from lemmygrad and hexbear doing mental gymnastics and whataboutism to justify whatever Russia or China are doing.

Lemmy.world has most of the instances that would fall into that category blocked.

Lemmy.world defederated from those instances. When I switched to a different instance I started to notice it. There are a lot of them, you just don't see them.

Lemmy is founded and developed by two communists and anti-US persons as a commy friendly alternative of Reddit. They also admin two (?) Lemmy instances.

I assume that after people from Reddit migrated it becomes more balanced. But still, reading news and comments in "technology" communities I feel like I read "anti-corporporate", not technology topics.

They're blocked in your instance, just like piracy related communities.

That's why i left LW, I want to decide which communities I block

I've seen one or two posts that had communist Nazi vibes. I just blocked the users posting them and haven't had a problem since.

The big name instances that generate these boogyman claims are blocked on Lemmy World. They're not blocked on my instance, but they also aren't really any different than any other posts from any other instances. The most cited reason isn't the content they post, but the fact the creator of the instance (in this case I am referring to Lemmygrad) is a tankie. Well they don't seem to post a helluva lot for it to matter, and the average users there aren't crazy assholes in my experience.

The Hexbear stuff, on the other hand... Every single user I've seen from that instance behaved like a 4chan troll or T_D user.

Looking at your account, you're on a instance that is defederated with the worst offenders

Make a lemmy.ml account and pop into any thread that talks about Ukraine and you won't be confused anymore lol

Personally, I don't mind one bit that they're communist, but their trollish behavior and their tendency to act like China and Russia (and I've even seen a few for North Korea) are bastions of individual liberty, prosperity, and justice with no faults makes them exactly as annoying as the super nationalist western folks who act the same about the US or Europe (depending usually purely on where they're from).

Basically it's not a communist problem, it's a troll problem where the trolls all happen to be communist

You're welcome to join lemm.ee and have a look. Its not a pretty sight though

I've just been blocking instances. I realized after the fact that I signed up with lemmy.ml, which contributes to it, but was the only instance that was quickly approving people when I signed up. It may be time to switch instances, or finally get off my ass and make my own.

I don't mind some of the ideas, but seeing people constantly sucking off Russia and China gets old in a hurry.

Check out lemmy.grad

It's mostly Hexbear, and they know they are annoying. The politics on Lemmy is... wildly different from what a regular social media looks like.

Some of them stick to posting mostly anti-west sentiment outside their home tanky friendly instances, but if you get in the right comment section. Oh man do they get wild. Crazy pro China propoganda. Lots of Russian support cuz the west is evil.