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this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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if a person thinks blocking users and communities they dont like is the way to curate their feed, i hope they block all the communities im in.
To be fair, you're on an instance that blocks communist instances. Or do you mean defederation is better than individual blocking?
im new to lemmy, so i was yet unaware of .world instance blocking communist instances. i'll look into that.
i think blocking is goofy, thats what i was trying to convey.
.world have been proven to subscribe people to israeli propaganda mailing list. A read about a guy who used unique email address for each subscription and he started recieving emails about israel from the one he used for .world.
I don't doubt this, but do you have a source?
I saw the firsthand accounts of multiple people saying this happened to them. One of them was an ex mod and the other used unique address.
Gotcha. Lemmy.world is defederated from Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net , so if you want a more general instance Lemmy.zip is probably more what you want. Alternatively, Lemmy.ml is federated with those two (and almost every other major instance), but is defederated from porn instances.
I didn't know that, but that's great
Yea I'd rather not have my social media experience intersperced with porn, haha.
thanks for this info, its appreciated.
No problem!
That's exactly how I curate my feed. Do you have any idea how many sports sublemmies my instance has? It's the Midwest. It was a lot.
thats an interesting example and i do appreciate it.
but unless you regularly block users bc you dont like what they said, then i didnt really mean you :) i could have been more clear with my original comment that i exclusively meant both those things, but i didnt think to at the time.
i come to lemmy to relax during my break at work, not to debate about weather or not we should carpet bomb civilians
well theres nothing to debate there. but since you brought it up, we shouldnt.
Tell that to your instance admins
What's wrong with blockers users when you don't like what they say? If someone is spewing slurs you bet I'm blocking them. I don't need that in my life.
id report and block someone using slurs, but ive never seen that on lemmy.
the op of this post blocked me for my comment. i didnt use any slurs.
The longer and more thoroughly you do so, the less aware you are; after a while you can be quite out of touch with the people and world around you. You live in a society, and it's better to know your enemy than to be oblivious to them. Social networking with less social can be a hug box trap.
Nothing WRONG with doing it, however. It's your right to be anywhere on the scale between being very social and total isolation.
I feel like this presumes people don't have irl community and social networks. The Internet and social media isn't my only view into the world. People are their worst selves online because there is no duty of care to each other.
I think it's absurd to say that filtering your social media, something that inherently depends on engagement and algorithms, gives you a more narrow worldview. As if each social media doesn't have inherent bias.
I always get the vibe it's an astroturf. A way to c convince leftist to further isolate themselves like 1700 Japan. It just makes these people turn into Trump like archetypes where you only surround yourself with people you agree with.
I do and I just blocked you
a pity you will never hear my sincere congratulations