I tend to avoid blocking communities and people on social media as I don't want to create myself an echo chamber. On other social media, such as x/twitter, I only block folk who are directly abusive to myself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While I generally STRONGLY agree with this sentiment there are some things that I either find too repulsive or offensive to want to see on my feed. People calling for the death of politicians, or insisting that everyone other than them is intellectually inferior, or just the general usage of derogatory terms... yeah I don't need to be angry :D

ETA: it also felt like there was way too much Russian and Chinese propaganda on a lot of those. As an American that gave me the ick

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, the comments are really turning into a dumpster fire.

My hot take is not to block instances because you can't report what you can't see

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[+] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't know how accurate this is, but I've always thought they were hard left authoritarians

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[–] TotallynotJessica 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tankies are people that defend or deny the shitty things done by ML states. People can appreciate some of Lenin's ideas, but not defend the states inspired by his ideology. The Bolsheviks under Lenin set the groundwork for Stalin's reign, with many of Stalin's terrible practices being inspired by things Lenin did. Lenin crushed opposition and centralized power while he was in charge, with Stalin doing what Lenin demonstrated to be acceptable behavior for their movement. When you reject the results of democratic processes to gain power, don't be surprised when your successor does the same. One can agree with many of Lenin's ideas, so long as they recognize the weaknesses.

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[–] Zehzin 13 points 1 year ago

Honestly, on .world I never see any except for users on the actual posts, so block whatever they're blocking.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Via browser, add '/instances' to the URL of your instance. It will tell you what you can reach and what is already blocked

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