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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reading the comments

Wish I could block an entire instance at once. Is that a thing I can do?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You were dumb enough to walk into a lemmy.ml political post without knowing the background of lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s fair. I did not know the background of lemmy.ml or hexbear and I’m certainly learning that users from particularly the latter are somewhat unstable. I just subbed to a bunch of top news communities when I joined Lemmy. That’s on me lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If it works for you, good. I did the same for 'politics' which is just us politics. I still look over the fence occasionally though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, some of these posts get wild. It's a shame, since the actual communists are cool.

It is interesting seeing the left's version of MAGAts, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On Kbin, individual users can block instances. By going to https://kbin.social/d/**instance.name**

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't block instances but you can block the lemmy.ml and hexbear.net magazines, which are all tankie hell.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmygrad is the tankie one, pls don't block me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm gonna keep .ml blocked for as long as they are federated with hexbear, they are annoying as fuck. Also lemmy.ml is super pro-china so it is pretty tankie, might have changed with the reddit migration, but, eh.

[–] Klear 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was my impression that lemmy.ml is lemmgrad with a mask on, to pass as somewhat reasonable to the rest of the fediverse. On lemmagrad they just spew their bullshit with no filter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're probably right, they probably bought the .ml domain to refer to marxism-leninism .