The ones that don't primarily use English simply because I can't understand what they're talking about, and even if I could, it's usually about the issues in another country that I can't do anything about, so my input is useless.
A weird "anarchist" instance that bans people if they down vote or say negative things about AI or the blahaj admin for some reason. I think db0 made a blahaj admin a db0 admin or something, there's a weird cross over.
But it's what you expect when an "anarchist" names their entire instance their own username.
not disagreeing that some of the hot takes are pretty out there... but I try to feed my inner lefty from as many sources as possible and a non-zero number of posts lead to interesting articles, regardless of the sometimes suspect commentary.
They can make all those takes in civilized places...
Like, if you run into mods you don't like: block their communities.
You run into heavy handed admins that enforce stupid rules across all their communities, you just block every community on their instance at once instead of one at a time.
This is especially helpful for people who browse /all because those problematic instances tend to be full of people who want to mod 27 different communities and won't stop making new ones.
It comes off as spam to a lot of people, which is why an instance block is valuable. It just stops people from accidentally going somewhere on the fediverse that they don't want to fuck with.
An average hard-line lefty instance that's pretending to be Anarchist, except that they don't actually follow Anarchist ideals and the admins decide what kind of Anarchism is "real Anarchism". The only flavor difference from most (Lefty) instances is that they welcome AI generated stuff, which is overwhelmingly hated on Lemmy.
My favorite part is how their own Golden Rules conflict with their own Code of Conduct, not to mention their admins blatantly do not follow either. It's hardly surprising you have a lot of them blocked.
It's not the leftism it's the unapologetic felatio to your tankie friends. At least ml is honest about who they are. You lot pretend to be anarchists but cream your pants for State sponsored authoritarianism as long as it comes out of China, Iran, Cuba, Russia or one of the other triad countries.
The only instance I’ve blocked is feddit.online, because it’s a pure reddit mirror with no users or fediverse-native posts. I found it clogged up my feed and made lemmy feel dead since there were all these posts with zero engagement, so I haven’t missed it at all and def recommend blocking it if your instance federates with it
Lemmy.world obviously as it's the biggest instance. Then ofcourse the usual suspects: Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Looking at that list the only other instances that seem slightly over-represented are dbzer0 and blahaj
Don't want to start any drama by listing specifics, but basically any instance that advertises itself as "a space for {insert flavor of identity politics here}".
I have a lot of blahj users blocked, across various different blahj instances. some of whom i notice have the same username across multiple instances where they spam rage bait content and tons of hostile commentary. most of them were from my /all feed where i saw them spamming this stuff.
I don't really consider blahaj as an "identity politics" instance, but I think I know which users you're referring to (or at least their style). I've probably had those blocked for a while now.
Edit: A few of those have older hexbear alts which kind-of explains things.
I tend to block new communities fairly frequently. There are a lot that would be fine to see one post occasionally, eh, whatever, scroll on.
But a lot of the time, someone will make a community and immediately spam like 10 posts in a row. I can scroll past 1, but when it's most of a page, it gets annoying.
I tend to rarely see new communities all that often. I feel like whenever I go on All it's a the same few that I find interesting enough to keep around, but not enough to join/sub to.
Communities: none, I don't block entire communities (beside the ones already blocked by my own instance, I suppose) since I see no reason to punish an entire population for the poor behavior of some of their individuals.
Users: I had no idea where they're from, so I just had a look. A good chunk is from lemmy.world but that is to be expected as it's quite large an instance, so it says nothing about the instance itself beside it being large. Also worth mentioning, I have blocked users from many other instances. The thing is that I block someone the instant I realize either
they are wasting my time: I'm too old to let anyone rob me of that precious resources.
they are only here to troll or to create drama, or spread hate and anger, not contribute anything positive.
I've never felt the need to block anyone. Honestly my opinion is people who use this feature a lot must be either quite sensitive or very toxic themselves.
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Denjin@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 149d
The same ones that should be on everyone's: ml, hexbear, lemmygrad
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 149d
The ones that don't primarily use English simply because I can't understand what they're talking about, and even if I could, it's usually about the issues in another country that I can't do anything about, so my input is useless.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 14 pts · 149d
NSFW/porn ones. Nothing against porn, it just should be separate and not pop up constantly when browsing /all
AskewLord@piefed.social · 9 pts · 149d
agreed. i have a ton of furry porn and other cartoon porn communities blocked, they seem to pop up in my /all frequently.
Forester@pawb.social · 0 pts · 149d
If you want that to be the reality of the situation then you need to post and upvote other things more.
Forester@pawb.social · 13 pts · 149d
Hex Ml db0
AskewLord@piefed.social · 9 pts · 149d
what is db0? i'm not familiar but i noticed i have tons of people from that instance on my block list.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 149d
A weird "anarchist" instance that bans people if they down vote or say negative things about AI or the blahaj admin for some reason. I think db0 made a blahaj admin a db0 admin or something, there's a weird cross over.
But it's what you expect when an "anarchist" names their entire instance their own username.
qprimed@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 149d
not disagreeing that some of the hot takes are pretty out there... but I try to feed my inner lefty from as many sources as possible and a non-zero number of posts lead to interesting articles, regardless of the sometimes suspect commentary.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 149d
They can make all those takes in civilized places...
Like, if you run into mods you don't like: block their communities.
You run into heavy handed admins that enforce stupid rules across all their communities, you just block every community on their instance at once instead of one at a time.
This is especially helpful for people who browse /all because those problematic instances tend to be full of people who want to mod 27 different communities and won't stop making new ones.
It comes off as spam to a lot of people, which is why an instance block is valuable. It just stops people from accidentally going somewhere on the fediverse that they don't want to fuck with.
Pinetten@pawb.social · 1 pts · 149d
An average hard-line lefty instance that's pretending to be Anarchist, except that they don't actually follow Anarchist ideals and the admins decide what kind of Anarchism is "real Anarchism". The only flavor difference from most (Lefty) instances is that they welcome AI generated stuff, which is overwhelmingly hated on Lemmy.
My favorite part is how their own Golden Rules conflict with their own Code of Conduct, not to mention their admins blatantly do not follow either. It's hardly surprising you have a lot of them blocked.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 149d
We're too leftist over here for homie. Lemmy.bzer0.com.
Forester@pawb.social · -2 pts · 149d
It's not the leftism it's the unapologetic felatio to your tankie friends. At least ml is honest about who they are. You lot pretend to be anarchists but cream your pants for State sponsored authoritarianism as long as it comes out of China, Iran, Cuba, Russia or one of the other triad countries.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 149d
That's not me. Bark at someone else.
Forester@pawb.social · -4 pts · 149d
if you run around with a bunch of clowns, you're part of the circus 🎪
elephantium@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 148d
Inadvertent Dwarf Fortress reference!
Forester@pawb.social · 1 pts · 146d
It was more of a big red tint joke
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 149d
Cool story.
Diva@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 148d
as an anarchist I have way more common cause with 'tankies' than with running dogs for empire
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 149d
A lot of that hornyposting stuff. You know the people. I'm already thinking about that shit enough. I come here to not do that lol
Steve@communick.news · 8 pts · 149d
I don't block, outside of the occasional spambot.
Certainly never a whole instance. That seems overkill.
felsiq@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 149d
The only instance I’ve blocked is feddit.online, because it’s a pure reddit mirror with no users or fediverse-native posts. I found it clogged up my feed and made lemmy feel dead since there were all these posts with zero engagement, so I haven’t missed it at all and def recommend blocking it if your instance federates with it
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 149d
Blocking an instance blocks the communities, not the users.
So I have .ml instance blocked, no post to a .ml hosted community will ever show up to my feed.
But if an .ml makes a post somewhere else, I see it.
I see their comments, and replies.
I just don't stumble into a place with authorarian moderation policies.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 149d
Lemmy.world obviously as it's the biggest instance. Then ofcourse the usual suspects: Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Looking at that list the only other instances that seem slightly over-represented are dbzer0 and blahaj
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 149d
Hexbear, world, and anything yiff/furry related
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 6 pts · 149d
Don't want to start any drama by listing specifics, but basically any instance that advertises itself as "a space for {insert flavor of identity politics here}".
AskewLord@piefed.social · 6 pts · 149d
I have a lot of blahj users blocked, across various different blahj instances. some of whom i notice have the same username across multiple instances where they spam rage bait content and tons of hostile commentary. most of them were from my /all feed where i saw them spamming this stuff.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 5 pts · 149d
I don't really consider blahaj as an "identity politics" instance, but I think I know which users you're referring to (or at least their style). I've probably had those blocked for a while now.
Edit: A few of those have older hexbear alts which kind-of explains things.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 0 pts · 149d
Is trekkie a political identity?
elephantium@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 148d
Gender: TOS. Pronouns: Kirk/Spock 🤣
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 4 pts · 149d
Looking at it looks to be lemmy.world which makes sense, as if I recall it's the biggest instance
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 3 pts · 149d
As an admin I don't block nearly as often as I ban. Most banned users are from .world or dbzer0. We also defederate the tankie triad.
chunes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 148d
What does it even mean to block as an admin? Wouldn't that be abdicating your responsibilities?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 2 pts · 148d
Yes, that's why I have no blocks
tal@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 148d
I mean, someone could have an admin account and a non-admin account with different block settings, I guess.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 148d
Blahaj.zone and dbzer0
Diva@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 148d
I don't really bother blocking people; I prefer to use my winning personality to make them exit the conversation
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 148d
i've blocked zero instances.
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 148d
Only communities I block are the ones I'll never have interest in when browsing All. I just checked and I have no users or instances blocked.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 148d
I tend to block new communities fairly frequently. There are a lot that would be fine to see one post occasionally, eh, whatever, scroll on.
But a lot of the time, someone will make a community and immediately spam like 10 posts in a row. I can scroll past 1, but when it's most of a page, it gets annoying.
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 148d
I tend to rarely see new communities all that often. I feel like whenever I go on All it's a the same few that I find interesting enough to keep around, but not enough to join/sub to.
elephantium@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 148d
Yeah, it's def not every day. But it comes up enough to be a familiar feeling.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 149d
I have 3, 2 from dot world
Objection@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 149d
I have 8 from .world and 6 from other instances.
chunes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 148d
users: lemmy.world
communities: lemmy.ca
atropa@piefed.social · 1 pts · 141d
Staff@piefed.world · 1 pts · 148d
No one blocked yet.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 149d
I only have three users blocked, I don't remember exactly why they're blocked but I assume they were scams.
Libb@piefed.social · 1 pts · 148d
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 148d
i got all the guys with the big ass block letters for names on my block list
tal@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 148d
I don't presently block any instances, and my home instance has a "no defederation" policy.
I think I've blocked about three users, all of whom were spamming content to try to make threads unreadable.
That being said, I don't subscribe to communities on lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, or lemmy.ml, and I normally browse subscribed.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · -2 pts · 149d
I've never felt the need to block anyone. Honestly my opinion is people who use this feature a lot must be either quite sensitive or very toxic themselves.