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[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago

Hot take: none. Let information flow free. Take it with the good and the bad. Don't lock yourself in an echo chamber.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 95 points 1 year ago

i never understood this take. echo chambers aren't inherently bad; forced debates are never good. communities are supposed to be places you go to feel comfortable not where you'd forced to debate or turn anything into an argument.

[-] stevehobbes@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Exposure to other viewpoints is good. No need to debate. And if you’re on a large instance, you’ll see that. Not everyone thinks alike, there are shades of gray. Discussion is allowed to happen but intolerance isn’t tolerated.

The tankie instances ban anyone for even asking questions politely that they don’t agree with. It’s a total monoculture and I assume they’re mostly still kids, because everything is black and white and can be solved without any nuance at all.

[-] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago

Exposure to other viewpoints is good yes, but is it good when that exposure only ever gets you insults hurled your way from the people you’re trying to have a discussion with?

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[-] yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

90% of the time it's bigots who are upset that they're getting deplatformed. The other 10% of the time it's the incredibly idealistic or naive. Either way it's a crap argument. You are under no obligation to endure verbal diarrhea, nor is it your responsibility to change the minds of the people spewing it. They shit the bed, they can lie in it.

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[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 58 points 1 year ago

Hot take indeed.

If the dog shits on the floor you don't just start walking around it, you clean the floor.

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[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

yes I need to see the fascists masquerading as leftists otherwise I would be living in an echo chamber....

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[-] seathru@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

Not so hot take: My time is finite, why force myself to see shitty facebook memes, dog pictures, crusty "battlestations", etc.?

[-] tastysnacks@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago

Hexbear kind of pissed me off for a week. But I kind of like how nakedly transparent they are. Now, whenever I come across one of those threads, I see where its coming from and I relax. They're just pro-russia regardless of if it makes sense. I don't know what the Murica equivalent of Russia is, but they're that

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[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Would you say the same when someone is harassing you? Or how about if they were Nazis? Because keep in mind OP is just blocking them and not removing them from all of lemmy.

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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 83 points 1 year ago

Fuckin' hilarious how quick tankies become obsessed with avoiding echo chambers when on their own communities they have a ban policy of "anything to the right of unironically calling Stalin Daddy."

To actually answer the question, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear will remove most of the redfash content, but you'll still need to be vigilant for individual users to block. Also, blocking users doesn't prevent them from posting on your shit, just stops you from being notified or being able to see it, AFAIK Boost doesn't have defederation for individual users so you'd need to do that over browser.

This comment brought to you by the absolute right to curate who is in your social orbit, same as in real life ya platform obsessed whingers.

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[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago

I don't block instances. I block communities and users. An instance is too large a group of people. They're not a monolith. Some people on hexbear are garbage and some are not. Some topics encourage jerks, some do not.

[-] seathru@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

At a point the garbage to quality ratio gets too high to do that. Yeah, I'm sure some decent folks get blocked when you block a whole instance, but there's plenty of other people in non shithole instances to more than make up for it. I just use whichever method is most efficient at cleaning up my feed at the time.

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[-] faceless@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago
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[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago

If you have to ask which ones, it's obviously not enough of an issue for you to notice.

Say NO to echochambers.

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[-] bigboismith@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

All of them :)

[-] Kedly@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

Isreal Palestine threads are also great for finding users to block. Reeeaaallly petty and vain way to use a decades long humanitarian tragedy, but I personally dont want to listen to the opinions of anyone who'd celebrate violence and horror of that level

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 31 points 1 year ago

You should block FauxBait@lemmynsfw.com among other child fetish communities.

[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Curiosity took me so I checked it out. I just see petite adult women? Literally every single post has 18 USC 2257 compliant age verification in the main body and it's listed as a rule on the sidebar that it must be included.

I'm all for a fuck literally any child fetishization. But they seem to be very clearly ensuring that there's no children. you can't seriously be saying that any adult female with a petite body should be seen as shameful and equated to a child?

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[-] haikunaaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago

Shout-out to my instance for defederating with them, makes that job a lot easier

[-] A_Porcupine@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I tend to avoid blocking communities and people on social media as I don't want to create myself an echo chamber. On other social media, such as x/twitter, I only block folk who are directly abusive to myself.

There is nothing wrong with protecting your sanity. Why would you want to be exposed to vile nonsense, you're not going to read breitbart forums in your spare time are you? Like... You're the only one looking out for you online. The platforms are just trying to turn your participation into profit.

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