I found that things became much more pleasant on here when I blocked hexbear. I recently blocked lemmy.ml as well, but I may reverse that if I find that I’m missing too much good content.
I’m open to other ideas on how to mostly avoid people who love conflict or argue in bad faith.
I don’t block any instances, though I am rather happy that .world decided to defederate with hexbear and .grad. I’m not so bothered by .ml, while they can be a little annoying sometimes, they’re at least usually able to carry on a semi-intelligent conversation. Usually anyway.
That might explain it then. Everybody’s talking about blocking hexbear, and I’ve never had any idea what they were talking about, but I’m on .world, so I guess it’s already blocked for me.
I use world now instead of blahaj just cause I’m a weirdo. But hexbear was federated with blahaj and their users/admins are super irresponsible and rude and called a blahaj admin transphobic
I’ve blocked so many communities I wouldn’t know which specifically and my client doesn’t show this info but basically any hentai or political ones.
I have post and content filters and my lemmy experience is amazing. I omit anything containing: trump, elon, yiff
I have a huge number of content filters, basically stopping just short of blocking the words “left” and “right” but trying to block everything else political.
What I wish I could find a way to do is pick by post language - I have nothing against a user/community, I just don’t speak (usually) German.
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I don’t know enough about Lemmy to block anything yet.
You should block Hexbear because its just a broad daylight CCP advocate forum trying to incite political extremism and violence in English speaking countries.
Lemmy ml isn’t all bad but they federate and align themselves closely with Hexbear.
I don’t know how to block a whole instance, but in reality I’ve only seen the communities that I’ve subscribed to and some other lame stuff… I’ve blocked all the shitty specific meme communities and web comics though. Call me a cynic.
I thought hexbear was far right. .grad is the full-on tankie instance.
Far right, CCP cuck, same difference. They at least claim to be the “true left”.
Mostly foreign language and shitty porn. Also “moe art” because why are there 70 subs for anime girls JFC.
Lemmygrad and hexbear, i am seriously considering blocking lemmy.ml as many users of the former instances migrated there to spread their dogshit
I just block anything political and/or news. I am much happier now.
I tend to block folks who spampost the same content three to four (up to 50) times, as this messes up my All experience, then those weird nearly CSAM manga style posts, and the clearly Russian/CN spam farm users.
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Politics and News on .world. They seem to think that everyone that doesn’t agree wholeheartedly with whatever their politicians say is a fascist. They’re unable to discern left from right.
It’s also neato how whenever I take issue with FlyingSquid or Roki, both mods, my posts are soon voted to exactly -10. Lazy coders.
Are you saying when you disagree with one of said mods there’s some kind of downvote campaign for your posts for a certain amount of time?
Sounds like it, squid acts an 80’s movie mall cop. So him having alt accounts to downvoted people wouldn’t surprise me. I banned him a few weeks ago. My feed immediately improved.
I blocked him a couple days ago finally. He’s a hateful prick, glad to be rid of his nonsense.
Not because I’ve had any kind of bad experience with users on this instance, but I don’t care for the posts on lemmy.blahaj.zone. I honestly just got tired of seeing the “Rule” posts; it’s like 90% of their posts!
I guess you can’t read this but I’m on lemmy.blahaj.zone and I personally blocked the rule community. It’s too many posts and doesn’t fit the vibe
Actually I can read this. Apparently blocking instances doesn’t block their comments in communities that aren’t hosted on the blocked instance.
oh nice
You could just block 196
That’s a good point. Honestly I didn’t notice all of those posts were from a single community, though in hindsight that makes a lot of sense.
How do you have them blocked? Is it just communities hosted there don’t appear or do you not see the uswrs’ comments elsewhere too?
In Settings > Blocks > Blocked Instances
I think it’s just the communities that don’t appear.
The only instance I’ve blocked is nsfw because I’m not into porn. The others have never bothered me.
I never block anyone or any instance. I simply ignore them. I also use the subscribed feed, so what most of the people say about hexbear, lemmygrad, etc. content filling their feed also does not affect me.
