"Why it matters: Xi's erosion of established guidelines for succession creates uncertainty and puts China at risk for high-level power struggles in the future."

I appreciate the heads up. I just applied to slrpnk.net which also blocks lemmygrad.ml so I should be good for now hopefully.

I gave reputable sources for my information. Please enlighten me as to how spreading this news and reminding everyone of the very real Tiananmen Square massacre that occurred on June 4th, 1989 is misinformation.

Having trouble commenting and posting in this community - this is just a test

Edit: Huh... would you look at that. Still can't create a new post or comment on another thread that I wanted to comment on though

If you're on Jerboa there should be a text box with three dots in it on the right side below the main post.

Yeah, we're essentially in complete agreement. As far the irl Nazi example, I know it isn't a perfect analogy because as you mention it isn't possible to avoid that physical interaction unless I either avoid meeting them by restricting myself or by restricting them. To be clear, if I knew that there was a Nazi where I wanted to go then I would happily restrict myself by not going there to avoid them. Do I think that Nazis and their ideals should be openly shunned and even restricted in our society? Absolutely. But in the moment when I have to choose whether or not to approach them I am still happy to go out of my way to avoid them despite I not thinking that should have to in an ideal world. But I digress, irl and online are two different environments with very different rules that limit how they can work as well as different social norms. Fortunately, an online environment does allow me to choose who I want to interact with more easily without restricting myself or the other party as much typically.

I understand that up until now it's been a pretty small community with a small team of devs devoting their time to it and that things take time to implement. I'm not in any way trying to say that the devs should have already done this or that I expect it to be done in a week or anything like that. I just want my frustrations and feedback to be known so that priorities can be adjusted if necessary depending on how many people agree with me. And if it was an active decision to not allow users to block instances to have that decision reconsidered hopefully.

If I can't find a solution to my problem and there is no interest in creating a solution for an extended period of time then maybe the community just isn't for me and that's perfectly okay. I don't have any illusions that things should always work the way that I want. But if widespread adoption is something that this community is interested in then feedback like this is extremely important I think. Other people will feel the same way as me. I don't know how many but certainly a percentage of the people that come from reddit will feel this way. And if there is no solution in sight then they will consider leaving just like I am.

haha, amerika fat! that's actually pretty funny. I can't believe I hadn't considered this point of view before.

I understand that people can be rude in any instance. I just believe that there is such a large fundamental difference in philosophy between myself and lemmygrad that it will lead to a much larger percentage of things that I don't want to see. I'm not afraid to use the block button when I feel like it. I just don't want to have to do it all the time when I could easily take care of most of my problem by blocking the instance.

I appreciate your friendly demeanor and advice of disabling upvote visibility but I don't really mind that at all. It's not so much social media anxiety in the same way that me not wanting to see a Nazi when I go out in public isn't social anxiety, it's just me not liking Nazis.

I didn't block you. I just didn't feel the need to respond. My original purpose for the post was about finding an instance that better suited me and you offered suggestions that showed you didn't read the post and then when you realized afterwards, the only question that I could have possibly wanted to respond to was why I didn't want to join beehaw which isn't relevant to why I made the post and I don't feel the need to justify. The answer could be "I don't like the little bee mascot guy" (it isn't) and I would be perfectly justified in my reasoning. I don't particularly feel like arguing about why I do or do not wish to join beehaw, hence I didn't respond.

There are currently 500 communities on lemmygrad. And that would also require me to keep up with any new communities that are created to block them as well. And does nothing for blocking comments.

I appreciate the information. I'll keep an eye out for when registrations are available again.

How are you supposed to know which instances are blocking which other instances? When I go to join-lemmy.org it doesn't give me any information like that and even going to the instance doesn't seem to that I can see.