To be fair, there’s not many other blatantly corrupt countries left to choose from…

Wow that went dark quickly

Wait till you hear about the “people’s” revolution under Mao…

Piefed has the option to use built in block lists for users and domains, along with a bunch of other stuff.

It all sounds great, but it’s someone else making those choices for you.

Like, if someone said:

Evil people shouldn’t be left alone with children

Like 99.99% of people will agree, everyone is onboard.

The issue is when a bunch of people then realize they disagree on who is “evil”. Some people will only disagree on minute details, others will be complete opposites.

So a logical person, would likely prefer an instance without built-in filtering, because it’s really not hard to do yourself.

That being said, some pifed instances don’t use those features.

Like, I could make a list titled “Nazis to block” and fill it with 90% actual Nazis, and then the other 10% is people who taste soap when they eat cilantro…

The vast majority of people would want that blocklist. And they’d just “join” it or however it works, and my silent crusade against non-cilantro enjoyers progresses because now their outreach is blocked.

It’s just a poor trade off compared to blocking the obvious problem accounts on sticking to well moderated communities. Especially since they that method, users won’t see their comments even on other instances

Lions are lucky Canada Gooses don’t migrate to Africa, because then there’d be no more lions…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1exJGPZyhs

Then Person 1 should block those accounts for being idiots, like I most likely did years ago…

I’ve rarely ever seen anyone grumble about .world in a completely unrelated thread without cause

That’s easy, its all over this thread, if you don’t recognize it here, you’re not recognizing it elsewhere.

Like a colorblind person insisting the color red isnt real…

It’s not just one account/instance.

If I was going to imply one tho, it would have been the person who bans everyone else from their instance for “impersonation” if anyone signs up to it.

It’s literally a one person instance, but that lets them into admin channels and gives them an equal seat at the table.

That’s the really obvious one, but I’m not going to name them either.

If you block an instance it’s users can still see your posts elsewhere and comment can’t they?

Yes, I literally said that earlier in the comment you replied to…

blocking an instance doesn’t stop you from interacting with the users.

And…

they can run their personal instance as they see fit. Isn’t that the whole point of federation?

Yes, that’s why I don’t make posts that they need to change, I just chimed in and provided context for why blocking their instance so you don’t accidentally stumble into their places…

Citation lemmy.ml admins do this please?

Their instance modlog…

Also isn’t this technically possible with every single instance of Lemmy?

It’s technically possible everyone ran an Epstein level child trafficking ring…

It would be insane to investigate everyone equally instead of just the people we know are doing it…

That should be obvious buddy

Stop acting like being on that list was exclusive to any demographic.

I’m on that and I’ve been called every political label under the sun as an insult on here.

I think Lemmy is radicalizing.

Ever since the reddit migration, troll instances who already existed on the fediverse saw a shiny new plaything.

When their home instances became defederated, their users spun up new ones, and were welcomed with open arms under the assumption they were new.

That bought them access to admin channels, were they could socially manipulate legitimate admins of major instances.

People who know controlled relatively large social media platforms…

People who didn’t receive any training and may not have had the best social skills to begin with.

So, what I’m trying to say is, it’s not all that they’re radicalized in the sense that their views changed organically. They’re radicalized like people taken advantage of by FBI informants into “planning” an attack.

The people telling them to do this stupid shit don’t think it’s a good idea, they just want to burn it down to watch it burn.

but i haven’t seen the users do anything.

It’s not the users people block over, blocking an instance doesn’t stop you from interacting with the users.

What it does, is block every community from that instance from your feed, that’s it.

People block .ml, because while some decent communities may exist, their admins will see your comments elsewhere, then find any/all comments on their instance and either harass you or ban you.

The block just means you won’t accidentally stumble into a place they control.

The minority of users who are really problematic, are likely to be banned everywhere else already

While I appreciate the answer…

Part of the question involved who I was asking:

Every time I see people from a handful of the same instance always try to pivot any discussion of one of the other handful of instances back to a criticize of .world, I go look at their post history.

“It is what it is” and commenting where the people are makes perfect rational sense.

But…

I’m assuming you don’t immediately try to turn any criticism against an instance whose politics you agree with, back on the mainstream instance.

If you did, then it wouldn’t be rational to spend all your time here

Every time I see people from a handful of the same instance always try to pivot any discussion of one of the other handful of instances back to a criticize of .world, I go look at their post history.

I always see the same thing; almost all .world postings, a few of the others, and none on their home instance, or any of the ones they’re defending

I keep asking, never getting an answer:

Why do you hang around .world so much if you don’t like it?

Why not just block .world?

Again:

The actions of even 10s of millions doesn’t give you a reason to judge all 2+ billion.

It’s based on “religious law” by the interpretation of extremists.

Something shared with the other two Abrahmic religions and multiple others.

But at this point you are being explicitly bigoted and don’t have ignorance as an excuse

There’s billions of Muslims…

So you could literally show me 10s of millions that are dicks, and I’ll say that means thos 10s of millions of people are dicks.

I wouldn’t say that means all the billions of Muslims are dicks.

You could sub “Muslim” for any demographic, my logic would stay the same because I’m not a fucking bigot.

Oh wow…

People still using reddit said inflammatory things?!

Next you’re going to tell me everyone on twitter is actually the same person as their profile pic.

That’s because

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You typed all that and didn’t realize Jack Dorsey owning Bluesky has something to do with everyone being funnelled to Bluesky?

It’s over half the masodon accounts…

After that comment was deleted, he cited it with the additional comment

…

So, if we take you’re unsourced opinion as fact…

1. He had a comment removed

2. He reposted the same comment with even more “context”

3. Mods banned him

And now you’re shocked and want people to be outraged because Mastodon worked as intended?

You want us to…

Do what exactly? Stop using the instance none of us are using? Go yell at a mod because they did what they volunteered to do?

That was the only article I could find about him too.

It gave plenty of examples of him trolling bigots, almost nothing about him being a journalist except something he did for a student paper as a teenager

It seems very likely that he was fucking around and got banned for trolling.

Not a huge Dune fan…

But pretty sure Timmy Chalamei sees the future, and sacrifices his humanity and the humanity of his children for the good of the human race.

He didn’t just think he’d be a good ruler, he was snorting a bunch of actual magic fairy dust and legitimately able to see the future and knew what it would take to save humanity: his own.

It’s a typical space Jesus story, so of course he’d just be another deluded space asshole, if he wasn’t really is Space Jesus in the story.