really, sounds like you shouldn’t be running an ad blocker or any of that stuff then. because you don’t need a clean internet, it’s good to view the web saturated with ads trying to sell you shit you don’t want or need.

Also, you should only read books that you aren’t interested in or that you hate. Because what is the point of reading if you aren’t making yourself miserable while doing so?

Hey, do what you want. I don’t blame anyone blocking an instance any more than blocking US news. You’ll miss out on seeing witchy memes tho.

I ain’t american you fucking asshole

and when the vast majority of the population is in the middle, and you’re on the extreme, you’ll think they are against you.

when what they really think is you are weird and annoying and you should shut up because you’re talking about shit that nobody wants or even cares about.

No I seem them regularly spreading pro russian propaganda and demeaning jabs against ukrainans in .world communities. The instance has to many disgusting users for it to be waved away with the “few bad apples” defense

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.

I can see where you’re coming from. At this point I’m not interested in engaging with content that has a negative impact on my mental health, even if I support those views. There’s some extent of irony in this behavior, but I’m just tired of being constantly bombarded with reminders of our sad world. I don’t use typical social media, and every once in a while when I catch a whiff of a friend’s Tiktok or Instagram feed, I’m completely blown away by how much content there is designed to trigger a negative, or often an angry reaction. This was a big reason for me to leave Reddit and I’m trying to avoid this as much as possible on Lemmy.

I’m still very new here and still trying to figure this whole fediverse thing out, I’ve only been here for about a month, give or take. Like some other user suggested were common for newbies to Lemmy, I chose the most active instance without really thinking about it, and always scroll through /All. During my short experience here, I have blocked so, so many communities and instances already. Blahaj is one of them, not because I disagree with the importance or need to stand up for LGTQ+ rights, but because I feel that the general content posted there is naturally based on a politically driven agenda, which again is all fine, but I browse this shit before bed to escape my already constant anxiety, and I’m here for memes and a good time. I’m not interested in content that is either dystopian doomerism, American circus politics, war reports, or what ever depressing reminders of our current speedrun to degrade human life, in basically all categories.

I get that people are actively frustrated, angry, in need to vent, or in need of other’s to help them feel less alone, that they’re not the only ones who think the world is losing their minds. This space is perfect for people to discuss those things, to find likeminded people and even challenge their believes from other’s opinions. But that’s not what I’m looking for. I could just make it easy for myself and sub to the lighthearted communities that fits to my need and just scroll through that instead, but I enjoy the random posts from communities I wouldn’t find unless I was scrolling through /All, like this post for example.

Instead, I just block everything that has a negative reaction that makes me chose to engage in that content from my side. Like another news article about Musk posting something dumb on Twitter once again, for example. If I read the title and want to click the post to read more, I stop to ask myself if feel that if the reason to want to read more stems from anger or frustration, if it does I try to move on. Not because I feel that the topic shouldn’t be discussed or that it shouldn’t have an angry reaction, but because it’s fucking everywhere already and I’m not trying to feed my depression further. Call it an ostrich behaviour, but it makes my experience a little better.

I think Lemmy is radicalizing.

Ever since the reddit migration, troll instances who already existed on the fediverse saw a shiny new plaything.

When their home instances became defederated, their users spun up new ones, and were welcomed with open arms under the assumption they were new.

That bought them access to admin channels, were they could socially manipulate legitimate admins of major instances.

People who know controlled relatively large social media platforms…

People who didn’t receive any training and may not have had the best social skills to begin with.

So, what I’m trying to say is, it’s not all that they’re radicalized in the sense that their views changed organically. They’re radicalized like people taken advantage of by FBI informants into “planning” an attack.

The people telling them to do this stupid shit don’t think it’s a good idea, they just want to burn it down to watch it burn.

Just use tesseract and have us all automatically blocked then if we’re all scary radicals. I see you were defending admiral patrick a few weeks ago, surprised you aren’t hiding behind it still. It’s right there for anyone who needs everything sanitized and corporate approved for them.

Leftism and pro LGBTQIA comms are not radical, violent, or terroristic, and trying to suggest they are is going to get you shit on here. It’s by design to keep the fash out. Lemmy is overwhelmingly a leftist space, and most leftists have no problem with telling it how it is, especially during the largest global resurgence in fascism since WWII.

At a certain point, if everyone around you is a problem, maybe you should consider the possibility that the source of your discomfort is much more localized.

But what are your thoughts on western imperialism and the futility of democracy?

;-)

Okay just block them, and block everything else you dont want to see, idk yeah theyre a bunch of crazy wannabe communists, i agree we all agree, just block and move on, like what else is there? Doxx them? That makes no sense, right?

it’s crazy people who are butthurt ivan drago lost in rocky iv, they’re not worth your attention – quite frankly this couldn’t be a better advertisement for lemmy.mi or whatever it is. So i guess that’s my rant, stop reacting with content you don’t like. If something real and local to your geography is happening, yes, go to a protest, volunteer helping underserved communities. But if it’s on freaking social media (federated or otherwise) just block and move on, dont feed into it. We don’t even know what corner of the world they actually live in. Think about all the horrible people in the world in positions of power – they all get tons of negative attention online and they harness that negative attention into real-world benefits for them.