• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The ones that don’t primarily use English simply because I can’t understand what they’re talking about, and even if I could, it’s usually about the issues in another country that I can’t do anything about, so my input is useless.

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    The same ones that should be on everyone’s: ml, hexbear, lemmygrad

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      3 days ago

      what is db0? i’m not familiar but i noticed i have tons of people from that instance on my block list.

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        A weird “anarchist” instance that bans people if they down vote or say negative things about AI or the blahaj admin for some reason. I think db0 made a blahaj admin a db0 admin or something, there’s a weird cross over.

        But it’s what you expect when an “anarchist” names their entire instance their own username.

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          not disagreeing that some of the hot takes are pretty out there… but I try to feed my inner lefty from as many sources as possible and a non-zero number of posts lead to interesting articles, regardless of the sometimes suspect commentary.

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            They can make all those takes in civilized places…

            Like, if you run into mods you don’t like: block their communities.

            You run into heavy handed admins that enforce stupid rules across all their communities, you just block every community on their instance at once instead of one at a time.

            This is especially helpful for people who browse /all because those problematic instances tend to be full of people who want to mod 27 different communities and won’t stop making new ones.

            It comes off as spam to a lot of people, which is why an instance block is valuable. It just stops people from accidentally going somewhere on the fediverse that they don’t want to fuck with.

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        An average hard-line lefty instance that’s pretending to be Anarchist, except that they don’t actually follow Anarchist ideals and the admins decide what kind of Anarchism is “real Anarchism”. The only flavor difference from most (Lefty) instances is that they welcome AI generated stuff, which is overwhelmingly hated on Lemmy.

        My favorite part is how their own Golden Rules conflict with their own Code of Conduct, not to mention their admins blatantly do not follow either. It’s hardly surprising you have a lot of them blocked.

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    NSFW/porn ones. Nothing against porn, it just should be separate and not pop up constantly when browsing /all

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      agreed. i have a ton of furry porn and other cartoon porn communities blocked, they seem to pop up in my /all frequently.

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      If you want that to be the reality of the situation then you need to post and upvote other things more.

  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world
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    A lot of that hornyposting stuff. You know the people. I’m already thinking about that shit enough. I come here to not do that lol

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    I don’t really bother blocking people; I prefer to use my winning personality to make them exit the conversation

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    I don’t block, outside of the occasional spambot.
    Certainly never a whole instance. That seems overkill.

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      The only instance I’ve blocked is feddit.online, because it’s a pure reddit mirror with no users or fediverse-native posts. I found it clogged up my feed and made lemmy feel dead since there were all these posts with zero engagement, so I haven’t missed it at all and def recommend blocking it if your instance federates with it

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      Blocking an instance blocks the communities, not the users.

      So I have .ml instance blocked, no post to a .ml hosted community will ever show up to my feed.

      But if an .ml makes a post somewhere else, I see it.

      I see their comments, and replies.

      I just don’t stumble into a place with authorarian moderation policies.

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    Lemmy.world obviously as it’s the biggest instance. Then ofcourse the usual suspects: Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Looking at that list the only other instances that seem slightly over-represented are dbzer0 and blahaj

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    Don’t want to start any drama by listing specifics, but basically any instance that advertises itself as “a space for {insert flavor of identity politics here}”.

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      I have a lot of blahj users blocked, across various different blahj instances. some of whom i notice have the same username across multiple instances where they spam rage bait content and tons of hostile commentary. most of them were from my /all feed where i saw them spamming this stuff.

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        I don’t really consider blahaj as an “identity politics” instance, but I think I know which users you’re referring to (or at least their style). I’ve probably had those blocked for a while now.

        Edit: A few of those have older hexbear alts which kind-of explains things.