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Lemmygrad and hexbear serve as a propaganda wing of for people that make being communist their whole life. You can block certain feds to clear out your feed.
I wouldn't get riled up about it, they literaly say stuff to upset you so you react.
Lemmy.ml isn't much better.
The Internet is not safe, just got wade through the shit to make it to something good them make a path toward it by getting rid of the noise.
I don't expect it to be safe, and I do expect to fight against authoritarian propaganda when I see it.
All the drama and hateful trolls are extremely similar to the growing pains of reddit 15 years ago. The rational healthy users outnumber the hateful crazies, and that trend will continue as the userbase grows.
I hope..
I hope so too but I'm not optimistic. I was on Reddit before most people and it didn't have anywhere this level of authoritarian propaganda.
It's world's better. But still chick full of Leninist. So still problematic because of that. On the whole though they don't brigade like hexbear or lemmygrad. Hell a large swath of their users are ironically not leninists even. However, when you do find one that is Leninist yeah you're gonna get toxic irrationality. But no worse than your average capitalist or neo-libertarian.
I just had several calm, rational comments deleted with no reason given. I can only assume it's because I was correcting a lie that made the CCP look better. A bunch of other people's comments got deleted in the same thread.
In other words, lemmy.ml had strict censorship in order to support an authoritarian government. It's a cancer on the Fediverse.
How do I block an entire instance?
right now you can only block communities. if everything goes according to plan, instance block should arrive with the next update, which is supposedly 1 month away.
IIRC the next Lemmy update will have this feature.
So I use Jebora on my android phone and if I go directly onto communities front page and a 3 dot icon on the top right side of the page it will say in the options 'block community" might have to block individually but there ain't that many large communities that will have such a loud voice.