• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    .World has the highest post activity. But someone pointed out their instance is heavily reposting from Reddit.

    Makes sense why they resemble it so much.

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      1 day ago

      Lemmy.world is a very libbed up instance, when I say liberal I mean in the political definition and not the us slag.

  • dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world
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    8 days ago

    Genuinely blocking the bad .world made lemmy not ‘just reddit’ and thus so much better.

    If I wanted far right wing corporate sponsored viewpoints like “genocide is necessary so we can survive” I would just make another reddit account.

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      7 days ago

      If I am on voyager can I block an instance? If I wanted to hear the viewpoints of the view and all the other cable news anchors repeated back ad nauseum I would watch tv

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        7 days ago

        Yes, you can. But you don’t do it from the instance page, you have to add it to the list of blocked instances in voyager options

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      7 days ago

      I just had to block that whole instance as well, especially because the same people mod all the subs. They literally delete me comments for being “uncivil,” though I was literally just repeating back what was said to me. Those comments were allowed to stay, of course. The mod was supposedly generous for not banning me. It’s cool, bro, I’ll ban myself.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    7 days ago

    Ła Venexia daxà senpre gà probleme da brente, anpò con ła scaldada global i pare roba xornaliera, no so de ła sità (o stesso de ła Europa!) ma me insusto migołìn.

    …sorry for the others, I couldn’t help it. Anyway:

    The best part of LW is that it’s a gate to the Fediverse, welcoming everyone from Reddit.
    And the worst part of LW is that it’s a gate to the Fediverse, welcoming everyone from Reddit.

    As such I can relate to the OP. There’s a lot of crap coming from that instance, but also users and content worth interacting with.

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        7 days ago

        No, definitely not, I’m just some politically illiterate idiot.

        Why don’t you be so kind and do it for me?

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    7 days ago

    I had this going on with hexbear for the longest time. It was a mix of my client not supporting instance bans, me not being willing to change clients, and a remaining shred of faith in humanity that - surely - there must be some good people on the site with something of value to add.

    In the end, I ended up deciding that the noise to Signal ratio was so high, it wasn’t worth the time filtering through the steam of mental fecal matter to interact with the rare sane person; I switched clients, blocked the instance, and am far more happy.

    Some instances simply aren’t worth losing brain cells for the relatively few people of value on them. It’s a sledgehammer tool, and I’ve used it only twice, but in both cases it’s been a positive quality-of-life feature.

  • lulztard@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Lemmy in general seems weird. At .org I had people rather have actual children fucker be free rather than tolerate the police scan all outgoing connections of an entire provider for a single IP over three day. It allowed them to catch the dudes behind a giant child porn website.

    I get that privacy is important and state control is dangerous, but at some point you need to show some common sense? That was not a “for the children™” moment or something, it was a concrete and successful strike against actual, significant child porn.

    I fucked off of the entire instance right after. What the fuck. I’m not going to have an argument about maybe scanning for an IP over three days is worth kids not getting raped in the arse and put online. Good God.