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Underrated benefit of lemmy is like minded people will tend to join the same instances and if I don't want to interact with those groups I can just filter the whole instance. (lemm.ee)
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A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, most people will want to do this at a minimum with Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml (actually most instances already have defederated with the second, but it doesn't hurt).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

What's wrong with lemmy.ml? It's a pretty generalist instance if you ask me. The only issue I have with it is that it doesn't block obvious troll instances like lemmygrad or the one that's even worse by default but you can do that yourself these days.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's full of tankies. Many of the mods of major subs such as politics or world news are tankies and will block anything remotely critical of Russia or China and censor anyone who says, for instance, that Ukraine has the right to take the fight to Russia. It's definitely more covert than lemmygrad is, but after about 6 months there, it became abundantly clear to me that nothing good was coming out of that place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I find Lemmy in general tends to lean quite authoritarian autocracy-ish; that feels more like a reflection of the general user base.

I don't like that in the slightest to be clear but I do think it's true.

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

I don't feel that that's true if you remove the .ml's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Make a joke at russian or China's expense on there, then please report back haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Lemmyml has a lot of tankies and other weird characters

Also they have a mod/admin problem. (Don't you dare question the tankie rhetoric)