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I wonder how many people give up on the fediverse without ever bothering to ask this very common question.
Time to defederate from lemmy.ml and the other propaganda instances so the Fediverse has a chance of surviving.
I almost did because of hexbear.net.
I swear, we need instance tagging so that people can tag their instances as “right-leaning”, “left-leaning”, or “moderate” and let users just pre-emptively block wide swaths of the fediverse for themselves.
The worst thing you can do is block people because of their leanings. That is how you get echo chambers. Of course many extremeists on both sides need to be blocked, just make sure you block them on your side too.
One of the best things that you can do for your mental health is to excise negative influences in your life. I’m a fence sitter, so not much blocking to do on our side.
If you don’t want an echo chamber, maybe you should start chatting with homeless or mentally ill people on the streets instead of living high-and-mighty on the internet.
Lol yeah, I have to block individual hexbear users whenever I find a thread where the instance hasn't defederated from them yet. I'd love to be able to block all hexbear and lemmy.ml users
You can. Instance blocking was added in v19. Or does it not block users from the instance appearing elsewhere? That seems an oversight, if so.
Oh is that very recent? I think I've been using the instance block feature that my app has. Which blocks me from seeing any of their posts, but I still see them show up in comment threads. I'll look into this later, would love to be rid of them entirely
Some apps have had local filtering for a while, but v19 implemented account level blocking in Lemmy itself.
Language would be a great option, too. I find all the non-English posts interesting in a puzzle sort of way, but honestly I don't need them.
I find my process for tailoring Lemmy to be the opposite of mine for Reddit. Reddit, I compiled a list of communities I was actively interested in and avoided /all entirely. Here, I'm always on All, and would rather just narrow down what "all" means.
I think language is already an option but everyone just posts as “unknown” or “unspecified” or whatever it is
I am in the same boat - Lemmy is like filtering down /all, which is nice for discovering new things, but in Reddit it is pretty nice to just accumulate things as you discover them and be spared the sometimes painful noise.
I really need to move off Lemmy.ml, moving all my saved stuff seems like it's going to be annoying though
Go to your settings and hit that export button, then on your new instance use the import button to sub back to everything
I don’t think it keeps my saved posts and comments though so I’d have to get those back manually
Yeah it's not like the western instances have any propaganda. Only Russians have that. :P