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…

  • Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3610·
    29 days ago

    This post made me curious so I took a look at my block list, and almost all of my blocked accounts are from .world. I’ve only blocked two .ml users. I wonder how much that varies by instance.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      88·
      29 days ago

      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?

    • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      28 days ago

      they started making accounts on other instances so they can spout their shit and get banned without it getting back to their main instance to avoid defederation

  • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    223·
    28 days ago

    Could someone give some examples of these leftist propaganda posts? I just browse all top day, maybe they get diluted enough for me to overlook these… i’ve seen this argument pass by so many times.

  • Anon518@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    214·
    28 days ago

    I have never noticed any problem with lemmy.ml.

    Block all the low-quality meme/image content if lemmy feels tiring. Stop consuming garbage.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    236·
    28 days ago

    I’m on .ml and just don’t see this. I moved here from .world after the cat food ban. The stupidity burned too much for me to stay there. I’m unsubscribed to most of the lemmy communities where the political crap is, so maybe that helps.

      • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
        161·
        28 days ago

        It’s a long story but basically after some stupid drama, lemmy.world banned discussion of cat food unless there was scientific evidence presented that the cat food was healthy for the cat. The drama had been about vegan cat food discussions in the vegan discussion group. Vegan cat food turns out to be a thing and appears to have enough approvals to be sold in pet stores, but people on .world wanting to talk about it should come over here to .ml. No I wasn’t a participant in the vegan group discussion itself. I made some posts in the surrounding drama thread that you can probably find in my .world profile from shortly after I joined.

        • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          28 days ago

          oh man, I forgot about that shit. I’m pretty sure I got banned from some communities for that.

          🤷 I just blocked them back and moved on.

          • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
            82·
            28 days ago

            Lemmy.world’s admin (not community mods but the actual instance admin) decreed that lemmy.world was going to be like Wikipedia, where anything controversial that you posted had to be accompanied by a research citation, more or less. The specific statement under dispute was that brand XYZ vegan cat food was ok to feed to your cat. A bunch of idiots howled “cats are obligate carnivores, hur hur! They can’t survive on a vegan diet! Mods, delete that comment!!!” and the site admin sided with the idiots. So I had to escape from the stupidity. Are you still confused? Btw the vegan cat food is perfectly fine for cats as far as I can tell. No I’m not about to go look for diffs links so some of those details may be garbled by now.

            I don’t think the citation policy was ever enforced on anything else, but anything that crazy is hard to forget.

            .world also defederated hexbear because it didn’t like hexbear’s politics, but I’m a regular on hexbear’s covid community (which is pretty good and not that political) so I had to go elsewhere for it. I can still reach it from .ml but this convinced me that the federation model is a failure. There’s no giant Spez overlord who can censor you, but there are 100 petty instance admins who can censor you instead. I’m still on Lemmy to stay away from Spez though.

              • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
                41·
                28 days ago

                Well you can find the actual wording, but I think it didn’t have much effect except that one discussion. The edict was issued and otherwise forgotten about.

  • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    226·
    29 days ago

    Pro russia propaganda is generally contained in ml own communities. The tiresome thing for me is zionist tolerant instances and communities and fake palestinians supporter who both side the colonizers and the colonized or defend rhe democrats support for the colonizers

    • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      147·
      29 days ago

      No I seem them regularly spreading pro russian propaganda and demeaning jabs against ukrainans in .world communities. The instance has to many disgusting users for it to be waved away with the “few bad apples” defense

      • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        29 days ago

        My argument was not to say that there is only few bad apples on the ml just that in my experience I don’t see their propaganda that much often outside of their bubble

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        51·
        28 days ago

        The instance has to many disgusting users for it to be waved away with the “few bad apples” defense

        Meanwhile .world has Zionists modding it’s major coms

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    194·
    27 days ago

    People should block users and instances that they dont want to see. They are in charge of their account. Then you wont have to feudpost about these people you blocked because you wont see them.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      44·
      27 days ago

      Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.

      In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.

      This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.

      This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click “Settings”.

      At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says “Blocks”.

      Here you will see “Block user” “Block community” and “Block instance”. Click the down arrow below “Block instance”.

      This will open up a search bar. Type “lemmy.ml” and click it after it shows up. That’s it! You’ve blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance.

      But wait, we aren’t done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under “Block user”. Now type “UltraGiGaGigantic” Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.

  • irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2613·
    29 days ago

    I find the whining and complaining more annoying.

    It’s easy to block content you don’t want (or switch to software that supports it). If it annoys you, block it.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    187·
    28 days ago

    Damn, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen one of these “greetings fellow leftists” posts whining about .ml.

  • liking625@lemmy.worldEnglish
    144·
    28 days ago

    When everything is extreme and far right, any attempt to common sense will seem far far to the left.

    • Richard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      33·
      27 days ago

      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.

      • rzadkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        27 days ago

        Yankees would rather keep believing that north korean women casually travel with 200kg bags of rice than stop pushing nazis as “progressive reformists”

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      28 days ago

      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.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        27 days ago

        you should shut up because you’re talking about shit that nobody wants or even cares about.

        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.

      • liking625@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        27 days ago

        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.

        • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          27 days ago

          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.

          • liking625@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            26 days ago

            You are probably right in most of what you say, the problem is I also see it neighbours, or even friends spilling the garbage.

            • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              22 days ago

              then move or get new friends.

              you don’t have the right to tell other people how to live their lives or to make their choices for them.

              • liking625@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                20 days ago

                Well, if they ask my opinion in a converation I will give it to them, and i at the very least can be well concerned if they start venting anti-inmigration crap they heared from the news media.

                • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  20 days ago

                  that’s like every relationship i’ve ever had. i’m not sure where people get these relationships where other people share their opinions in lock step with them.

                  everyone i know has different feelings on various issues.

  • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    28 days ago

    I use Lemmy.world. I don’t see any of this drama, about cat food or leftists. I do see posts that used to be regular at Reddit, with decent discussion.