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Why do people on reddit seem to hate Lemmy/Mbin/other federated link aggregators? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I was just reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ and many barely see the fediverse as an alternative and they seem to have a negative bias towards it. Super ironic when it comes to the self-hosting community. Yes, some instances are problematic, yes, some devs might have had problematic views. But it doesn't really matter when it's federated and FOSS. I think it's clear-cut that the selfhosting community on Lemmy is a perfect alternative to reddit. Why is there such a negative bias?

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[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

I block all .ml communities that pop up on my feed. Somewhere between 200-300 on my blocklist by now (not all exclusively from .ml of course, but most of them).

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Why not block the entire instance in your settings?

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

Because that isn't an option.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

It is. Go into your account settings -> blocks and at the bottom is a section for blocking instances.

I've got Lemmy.ml in there. You'll still see comments from their users and posts from users in other communities but you shouldn't see any of their communities in your feed.