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…
When everything is extreme and far right, any attempt to common sense will seem far far to the left.
If this thread was talking about universal heathcare, or how to give people actual equal rights, or how to improve public education, or how eliminate modern fascism from western politics, or how the US governmemt should be reformed from the ground up we would be talking all day, and likely agreeing in a lot of points.
But i don’t think North Korea is a good place to live in, my brother.
Yankees would rather keep believing that north korean women casually travel with 200kg bags of rice than stop pushing nazis as “progressive reformists”
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.
The exact same criticism was levied against abolitionists and suffragettes
I see vast majority in the far right though, swallowing the pill, starting proof is how they vote, the hate for immigration, the normalization of genocide, denying of scientific method , as in flat earthers, anti vaccines, podcasters and youtubers who didn’t study shit spreading misinformation as science, etc, trillionares advocating for destroying public services and keep the poor ,poorest, normalization of "coliving’ and ultra small habitation as a normal thing, etc. I could keep on with examples whole day long.
you spend too much time on feeding the algorithms. i don’t ever see any of that shit, because i’m not interested in it.
if you only listen to crazy people, you will think everyone is crazy because you don’t ever talk to normal people, and you probably won’t pay attention to them anyway, because they arent’ saying crazy shit.
stop living to be upset and offended and you might actually realize how chill the average person is.
You are probably right in most of what you say, the problem is I also see it neighbours, or even friends spilling the garbage.
Dont want to see that stuff? Then use your block feature. You will get way better results then just telling other people to comment/post less doofus.