Hot take: none. Let information flow free. Take it with the good and the bad. Don't lock yourself in an echo chamber.
i never understood this take. echo chambers aren't inherently bad; forced debates are never good. communities are supposed to be places you go to feel comfortable not where you'd forced to debate or turn anything into an argument.
Exposure to other viewpoints is good. No need to debate. And if you’re on a large instance, you’ll see that. Not everyone thinks alike, there are shades of gray. Discussion is allowed to happen but intolerance isn’t tolerated.
The tankie instances ban anyone for even asking questions politely that they don’t agree with. It’s a total monoculture and I assume they’re mostly still kids, because everything is black and white and can be solved without any nuance at all.
90% of the time it's bigots who are upset that they're getting deplatformed. The other 10% of the time it's the incredibly idealistic or naive. Either way it's a crap argument. You are under no obligation to endure verbal diarrhea, nor is it your responsibility to change the minds of the people spewing it. They shit the bed, they can lie in it.
yes I need to see the fascists masquerading as leftists otherwise I would be living in an echo chamber....
They'll certainly bring up an actual good point from time to time, unlike actual fascists.
Mostly though you can negate the majority of their most obnoxious shit takes by blocking users.
But my instance isn't federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear as is so I can get away with that, and I don't see "Genocide is okay if" takes in my feed.
People who say this are generally fine being a part of every other instance that is full of liberals who repeat fascist propaganda verbatim. Seen rather clearly in response to the recent escalations in Gaza.
Not so hot take: My time is finite, why force myself to see shitty facebook memes, dog pictures, crusty "battlestations", etc.?
Hexbear kind of pissed me off for a week. But I kind of like how nakedly transparent they are. Now, whenever I come across one of those threads, I see where its coming from and I relax. They're just pro-russia regardless of if it makes sense. I don't know what the Murica equivalent of Russia is, but they're that
What fucking kills me is they're like 80% American teenagers who have never even been to Europe or Asia, but simp hard for Russia and China
They're anti US, not necessarily pro Russia. They support Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war because they think Ukraine is a US puppet state because the country wants to align with Western nations, and of course no nation on earth has its own agency and everything is the US's fault. They're pro anything that challenges the US and other liberal countries.
They remind me of a bunch of teenagers trying to be edgy.
They are campists. It's been the bane of leftist parties forever. That's why socialism really got a foothold in Europe via third-way social democracy, because it doesn't feel the need to make tyrants into folk heroes in order to relitigate the cold war
Do they support Russia or Putin? If they support one, they hate another.
Would you say the same when someone is harassing you? Or how about if they were Nazis? Because keep in mind OP is just blocking them and not removing them from all of lemmy.
OP is asking which ones to block because he currently is not being harassed. If he was being harassed, he would know which ones to block.
That'd be fine if the tankie takes had any value to them. The only value they've added to me is showing me why real world communism has always ended up the way it has. And now I've learned that lesson, so theres no further value
I can't read German or french
Same here, but every now and then an English source comes through so I keep them available.
Oh mein Gott er kann kein Deutsch lesen grundgütiger wie kann man das nicht können c'est incroyable, non c'est impossible je voudrait penser mais non
I like getting exposed to languages that I'm not fluent in. Sometimes I pick something up or get curious and learn something new from translation. A multilingual internet is a colorful and beautiful place.
I have no need for those weird anime fan clubs. Like that chainsaw shit. Or holo-whatever
My hot take is: Depending on the individual, this may be a healthy and responsible thing to do. The outrage cycle that was established in commercial social media to "drive engagement" is very bad for our meat computers (shown in multiple studies). It is much healthier and more productive, at times, to block users, communities, and potentially instances (removing this ability, and forcing me to use their algorithm for sorting, is why I left Reddit, in addition to the harm caused to disabled communities).
I disagree, I would love to block NSFW instances, and I'm grateful to the users that voluntarily post in there. For me Lemmy is too searchable for me to get into those luxuries.
I don't block instances. I block communities and users. An instance is too large a group of people. They're not a monolith. Some people on hexbear are garbage and some are not. Some topics encourage jerks, some do not.
At a point the garbage to quality ratio gets too high to do that. Yeah, I'm sure some decent folks get blocked when you block a whole instance, but there's plenty of other people in non shithole instances to more than make up for it. I just use whichever method is most efficient at cleaning up my feed at the time.
True. The good/bad ratio matters and is very subjective. I guess I have a larger tolerance than most.
Hexbear say what?
unpopular opinion time: hexbear isn't that bad. I've had to block a few communities, but I do that with any instance. I've had to block more on hexbear, but it's not a ton. I've had to block more people on hexbear than other instances, but it's not that bad. I appreciate their different viewpoints. I don't like echo chambers and I learn a lot.
If you have to ask which ones, it's obviously not enough of an issue for you to notice.
Say NO to echochambers.
All the tankies came out of the woodwork butthurt about this.
Fuck fascists, including tankies.
All of them :)
Isreal Palestine threads are also great for finding users to block. Reeeaaallly petty and vain way to use a decades long humanitarian tragedy, but I personally dont want to listen to the opinions of anyone who'd celebrate violence and horror of that level
How cringe can they be if you have to ask for an instance instead of just noticing it yourself?
Just wants to block an instance to feel powerful.
If you ever don't tell tankies how much they annoy you, the tankies win.
I tend to avoid blocking communities and people on social media as I don't want to create myself an echo chamber. On other social media, such as x/twitter, I only block folk who are directly abusive to myself.
There is nothing wrong with protecting your sanity. Why would you want to be exposed to vile nonsense, you're not going to read breitbart forums in your spare time are you? Like... You're the only one looking out for you online. The platforms are just trying to turn your participation into profit.
While I generally STRONGLY agree with this sentiment there are some things that I either find too repulsive or offensive to want to see on my feed. People calling for the death of politicians, or insisting that everyone other than them is intellectually inferior, or just the general usage of derogatory terms... yeah I don't need to be angry :D
ETA: it also felt like there was way too much Russian and Chinese propaganda on a lot of those. As an American that gave me the ick
Wow, the comments are really turning into a dumpster fire.
My hot take is not to block instances because you can't report what you can't see
Yeah, I wasn't expecting this to blow up as much as it did lmao
Honestly, on .world I never see any except for users on the actual posts, so block whatever they're blocking.
Via browser, add '/instances' to the URL of your instance. It will tell you what you can reach and what is already blocked
You as a user cant block instances on lemmy itself right now
I know that, I am just saying its mostly not necessary as most of the work has been done for you
Yesterday I blocked politics, worldnews, and similar. Feed was becoming nasty, depressing, everyone arguing, complaining, criticizing, trolls, strawmen. Literally people saying it all sucks, nothing matters, everybody's a liar, there is no point, why bother...
Since blocking, way better experience on lemmy.
tankie sound pretty cute tbh
Yippee
I would suggest some, but I'm pretty controversial and no one likes that
.ml is federated with hexbear, so I'd suggest blocking them. I find them pretty infuriating.
All of them :)
How to block instances (and not communities)?
Depends on what you are using. On the phone in boost there is an option for it in the settings
Holy duck! Lemmy has become r/conservative.
I'm a leftie and can't stand tankies, but lemmy is becoming a really intolerant place. On reddit we were all united against u/spez no matter our other disagreements. Here, after only a few months we're talking about blocking instances and communities instead of just joining and viewing the ones that Interest us...
Perhaps it's time to let this experiment run its course.
Or maybe, just maybe, I grew tired of seeing genocide apologia and the defence of authoritarian governments in my feed.
Mate I've only been here like a week and I can promise you that most people here are left-wing
Edit: reddit was united with everyone hating each other lmao
I just want a news feed that doesnt constantly anger me and convince me to argue. I'd wanted to block TwoXChromosomes on reddit forever because I wasnt its target audience and got nothing out of it. So I'm personally enjoying actually getting some control over my echo chamber for once
Edit: Also, nuanced takes I disagree with? I dont block those. Its the batshit/extremist ones that I block, I dont feel they are really adding much to my life anyways
The mods of a certain pair of tankie instances a few months ago were talking about taking over all other instances of Lemmy while the userbases became increasingly hostile towards users who disagreed with the idea that Stalin/Lenin did nothing wrong and that China is a perfect country who can do no wrong and has never done anything bad.
People have the right to not be harassed and take action to prevent said harassment.
Local Lemmer Upset Israel-Palestine Conflict More Divisive Than Social Media CEO
I think they will block cappie instances in return 🤣
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You can do that on Lemmy? I thought it was a thing only Kbin had until now
awww but we haven't even gotten to play yet!
They all are. Lemmy world included. My comments are constantly taken down and my reports for calls to violence are constantly ignored.
The programmers are known Communist and so are most the mods. If you have any sort of middle ground opinion here the users, mods, and admins will try to run you out of town.
The rules for those that support communism are different from those who disagree with them.
I took a quick look at your post history to get a clue. It's almost exclusively aggressive oneliners. When you are commenting of some length it's just hate that offer nothing constructive nor any material for discussion.
You're toxic, dude. People don't like that.
And taxes aren't me paying? I can't say I don't want my leaders to use taxes in this way? I can't vote for someone who agrees it's wasteful? I'm fine paying for health. I'm fine paying for defense. I'm fine paying for education. I don't want to support an expensive habit from addicts who can't support themselves.
👌👍 Super toxic
Can't find a single link to methodology or what the population was. Unless my Google is horrific I would take this with a grain of salt. Men are definitely overrepresented. However in my 15 years of experience working in the field I've seen maybe one overt case of sexism. I can count on one hand times where I've heard a "under the radar" type problematic statement that I've needed to address. I do not believe this data is representative of anything in the US or EU from my personal experiences.
Unhinged.
I was even banned for genocide 🤣. I wish I could see what comment I was genocidal on.
With comments like this i can understand that is happening to you. A comment shitting on everyone, calling them names with no links, or anything to go on.
I also wonder, if you hate it so much here, why you are here to begin with? Its like a "old man shouts at cloud" moment hehe
Reddit sucks 🤷♂️
I was hopeful this place was better. Not sure what you want me to link. Mod log is public and you can see exactly why.
Can you tell me what part of my comment is untrue? Most of the devs are Communist, this is known. You can absolutely see comments that are pretty communism and socialism are treated very very differently.
