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[-] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

NSFW/porn ones. Nothing against porn, it just should be separate and not pop up constantly when browsing /all

[-] AskewLord@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

agreed. i have a ton of furry porn and other cartoon porn communities blocked, they seem to pop up in my /all frequently.

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

The same ones that should be on everyone's: ml, hexbear, lemmygrad

[-] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of that hornyposting stuff. You know the people. I'm already thinking about that shit enough. I come here to not do that lol

[-] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lemmy.world obviously as it's the biggest instance. Then ofcourse the usual suspects: Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Looking at that list the only other instances that seem slightly over-represented are dbzer0 and blahaj

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Looking at it looks to be lemmy.world which makes sense, as if I recall it's the biggest instance

[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The ones that don't primarily use English simply because I can't understand what they're talking about, and even if I could, it's usually about the issues in another country that I can't do anything about, so my input is useless.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hexbear, world, and anything yiff/furry related

[-] atropa@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Only 11 people blocked, world of difference to use fediverse now

[-] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Only communities I block are the ones I'll never have interest in when browsing All. I just checked and I have no users or instances blocked.

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I tend to block new communities fairly frequently. There are a lot that would be fine to see one post occasionally, eh, whatever, scroll on.

But a lot of the time, someone will make a community and immediately spam like 10 posts in a row. I can scroll past 1, but when it's most of a page, it gets annoying.

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

As an admin I don't block nearly as often as I ban. Most banned users are from .world or dbzer0. We also defederate the tankie triad.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What does it even mean to block as an admin? Wouldn't that be abdicating your responsibilities?

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, that's why I have no blocks

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, someone could have an admin account and a non-admin account with different block settings, I guess.

[-] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Blahaj.zone and dbzer0

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't presently block any instances, and my home instance has a "no defederation" policy.

I think I've blocked about three users, all of whom were spamming content to try to make threads unreadable.

That being said, I don't subscribe to communities on lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, or lemmy.ml, and I normally browse subscribed.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

i got all the guys with the big ass block letters for names on my block list

[-] Steve@communick.news 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't block, outside of the occasional spambot.
Certainly never a whole instance. That seems overkill.

[-] felsiq@piefed.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

The only instance I’ve blocked is feddit.online, because it’s a pure reddit mirror with no users or fediverse-native posts. I found it clogged up my feed and made lemmy feel dead since there were all these posts with zero engagement, so I haven’t missed it at all and def recommend blocking it if your instance federates with it

[-] Forester@pawb.social 0 points 3 weeks ago
[-] AskewLord@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

what is db0? i'm not familiar but i noticed i have tons of people from that instance on my block list.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

We're too leftist over here for homie. Lemmy.bzer0.com.

[-] Forester@pawb.social -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's not the leftism it's the unapologetic felatio to your tankie friends. At least ml is honest about who they are. You lot pretend to be anarchists but cream your pants for State sponsored authoritarianism as long as it comes out of China, Iran, Cuba, Russia or one of the other triad countries.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

as an anarchist I have way more common cause with 'tankies' than with running dogs for empire

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 weeks ago

That's not me. Bark at someone else.

[-] Forester@pawb.social 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

if you run around with a bunch of clowns, you're part of the circus 🎪

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Inadvertent Dwarf Fortress reference!

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

A weird "anarchist" instance that bans people if they down vote or say negative things about AI or the blahaj admin for some reason. I think db0 made a blahaj admin a db0 admin or something, there's a weird cross over.

But it's what you expect when an "anarchist" names their entire instance their own username.

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

not disagreeing that some of the hot takes are pretty out there... but I try to feed my inner lefty from as many sources as possible and a non-zero number of posts lead to interesting articles, regardless of the sometimes suspect commentary.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

They can make all those takes in civilized places...

Like, if you run into mods you don't like: block their communities.

You run into heavy handed admins that enforce stupid rules across all their communities, you just block every community on their instance at once instead of one at a time.

This is especially helpful for people who browse /all because those problematic instances tend to be full of people who want to mod 27 different communities and won't stop making new ones.

It comes off as spam to a lot of people, which is why an instance block is valuable. It just stops people from accidentally going somewhere on the fediverse that they don't want to fuck with.

[-] Pinetten@pawb.social -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

An average hard-line lefty instance that's pretending to be Anarchist, except that they don't actually follow Anarchist ideals and the admins decide what kind of Anarchism is "real Anarchism". The only flavor difference from most (Lefty) instances is that they welcome AI generated stuff, which is overwhelmingly hated on Lemmy.

My favorite part is how their own Golden Rules conflict with their own Code of Conduct, not to mention their admins blatantly do not follow either. It's hardly surprising you have a lot of them blocked.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net -1 points 3 weeks ago

I've never felt the need to block anyone. Honestly my opinion is people who use this feature a lot must be either quite sensitive or very toxic themselves.

[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website -1 points 3 weeks ago

Don't want to start any drama by listing specifics, but basically any instance that advertises itself as "a space for {insert flavor of identity politics here}".

[-] AskewLord@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I have a lot of blahj users blocked, across various different blahj instances. some of whom i notice have the same username across multiple instances where they spam rage bait content and tons of hostile commentary. most of them were from my /all feed where i saw them spamming this stuff.

[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't really consider blahaj as an "identity politics" instance, but I think I know which users you're referring to (or at least their style). I've probably had those blocked for a while now.

Edit: A few of those have older hexbear alts which kind-of explains things.

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 0 points 3 weeks ago

Is trekkie a political identity?

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Gender: TOS. Pronouns: Kirk/Spock 🤣

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