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…
i have met people in real life who are 100% addicted to it and can’t stop talking about it in person. it’s simple like a way people live now, how they process the entirety of their life everyday.
and they won’t ever see the fault in themselves. they will simple call you names and say you are implicitly supporting the ‘bad side’ in the story if you dare to say maybe it is stupid and rage bait. and yeah, they see it as their mission to ‘educate’ you and everyone else about the ‘truth’ they see that ‘nobody else sees’.
it’s a form of ego-tripping in the end. they feel like they are doing god’s work, and proselytizing the good word of outrage and they must shun the non-believers lest their purity of their rage ever be tested.