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…
yep, this is exactly why i have blocked those instances myself.
i’m not an extremist. i don’t hate everyone who is different than me, etc. and i don’t want to interact with folks who think that way or promote content that pushes hate and rage and self-victimhood. according to a lot of folks on those instances, that viewpoint means I’m a fascist capitalist Nazi who want to murder them implicitly… because anyone who isn’t with them, is against them.
and yeah i didn’t block them 2 years ago, but over time that stuff kept getting worse and worse and more prevalence and the users from the instances kept drive-by commenting and sending me messages taht were pure vitriol and hate.
there is no ‘winning’ by viewing those types of folks or the content they post on lemmy. so blocking is really the best way to improve your experience.
i’m just here to like, relive old reddit when it was funny and goofy and nerdy. i’m interested in politics, but from a very different place than most political posters here are, and I get demonized for like… wanting to promote understanding and find common ground. but i’m clearly a big centrist fascist bootlicker, or something.