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…
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I just moved to lemmy.zip from dbzer0 and before that, world, mainly because I want to be the one blocking, I don’t want my instance to block for me. I must not be subscribed to the right places, because I just don’t see a whole lot of CCP/RUS apologia? I’m pretty good at passing over shit I know I won’t agree with though, so it might just not be registering.
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.
Ouch. Must have been difficult for you. Hope you feel better now when your Frontpage consists of things you can agree with. :)
I did the same thing and I fully agree
I also ban any .ml user on sight
It’s been great for my mental health too
What exactly is lemmy.ml? And how would I block it? Thanks!
Judging by the comments here, you just need to block .ml, .world and piefed to block all the assholes? 🤔🤔🤔
I mean when i see a post i dont like i check the user history and instance history. If it’s a long lost of similarly shitty posts i block one or both. If it’s not, well everyone has bad days wcyd. I’m just surprised that the concept of blocking instances and users you dont like is such a popular new post today in august 2026.
Just block Lemmy entirely
Truly we should all just log off
No!
You stay logged in, defederated from everyone, having blocked everyone!
You sit in your little cubicle and stare at the wall!!!
:)
You need to do that to make it even more of an american imperialist echo chamber then it already is.
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Lemmy.ml was/is my first foray into the whole thing and the dogma/irrationality/hivemind has been really disheartening (for a community I had figured would filter people like that out due to its’ size relative to reddit or other normal websites). Thanks for this, i’m going to try it.
How do you block an instance
Go to your profile settings, it should be there next to your blocked users, at least that’s how lemmy.world’s interface is
An adjacent question, what does it mean when BANNED in red letters is next to a user you blocked?
Community mods banned them
Like any community anywhere?
I won’t block anyone even if their straight up assholes because even a broken clock is right twice a day and I actually have learned some information that was true from them.
That being said though the ones who say North Korea is a utopia and USA is fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine (true) but that Russia giving drones and military equipment to Iran isn’t the same thing and that isn’t a proxy war or that Mao was some sort hero of the people (I could definitely go on from here) those people are idiots and its very easy to look up anything they say and see that its complete bullshit.
I’m still not gonna block them. Hit them with an “Ok” and move on with your day. As soon as you pull out the graphs or cite multiple sources they will just ban you so there’s no point in fucking with them. Until they post on here from North Korea and prove us all wrong, you can easily disregard any of the bullshit they say.
That said the ONE person I have ever blocked on Lemmy was someone who posted a cartoon picture of a little kids butt on the self hosted community. I still don’t understand what that was about and I not only blocked them but reported them for that too. But other than child stuff, I probably won’t ever block anyone even if they’re complete assholes.
My comment questioning if celebrating the deaths of US soldiers was such a good look for them got removed by mods on lemmy.ml/c/worldnews
Apparently this was an irredemable position that goes against everything the average .ml mod believes in (shitposting on niche, far-left sites).
“Far left” is a stretch. Seems more like a submission kink thing.
I want to do this, but they established themselves as the main Lemmy instance before people caught on and it’s too much of Lemmy.
I barely ever see any such things on my feed. The most problematic users I’ve come across were from lemmy.world.
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