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…
good news is that the majority of this content is coming from a handful of people. and you can block them and you’ll see a massive reduction in it.
like some of the folks my block lists post 50+ times a day, and are in the comments of their post viciously attacking anyone who dares to question the legitimacy of the content they post, calling them names and often trying to bait them into saying something they can get them banned for. because it’s like… their self-appointed job or something? i have no clue.
i also work in tech and i blocked a ton of the weird linux fetishist stuff, which again, was a few posters and communities who just evangelize non stop everyday about how superior and holy they are for their OS use, and how awful and terrible windows/apple is.