What instances do you block and/or contain the most trolls? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I found that things became much more pleasant on here when I blocked hexbear. I recently blocked lemmy.ml as well, but I may reverse that if I find that I'm missing too much good content.

I'm open to other ideas on how to mostly avoid people who love conflict or argue in bad faith.

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[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Not because I've had any kind of bad experience with users on this instance, but I don't care for the posts on lemmy.blahaj.zone. I honestly just got tired of seeing the "Rule" posts; it's like 90% of their posts!

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I guess you can't read this but I'm on lemmy.blahaj.zone and I personally blocked the rule community. It's too many posts and doesn't fit the vibe

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Actually I can read this. Apparently blocking instances doesn't block their comments in communities that aren't hosted on the blocked instance.

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

oh nice

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

You could just block 196

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

That's a good point. Honestly I didn't notice all of those posts were from a single community, though in hindsight that makes a lot of sense.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

How do you have them blocked? Is it just communities hosted there don't appear or do you not see the uswrs' comments elsewhere too?

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In Settings > Blocks > Blocked Instances

I think it's just the communities that don't appear.

[-] Artemis@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Can someone please explain all the .ml hate? From what I've seen, it's mostly a tech (i.e., not tank!) instance and I haven't experienced any drama at all aside from other instances hating on us. It seems WAY too overblown and generalized from my experience. If the OP blocked .ml are they even able to see my response here?

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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

I think I blocked some porn instance but otherwise nothing.

I'm not the kind of guy who must block something I don't agree with.

[-] DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Nor am I. I'm also not the sort of person who expresses their comments in absolute terms.

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

For now, I blocked three communities, one about gossiping and two about adult material. I also blocked a bot that keeps cross posting things from Reddit. That's all that I blocked so far.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

I honestly appreciate the alternative perspective of some of the other instances but it just gets toxic, unfortunately.

[-] jay@mbin.zerojay.com:443 1 points 2 months ago

I've just kind of been learning how to just... not be tempted to respond to people like that. I think using Redlib - the privacy frontend for Reddit - has conditioned me to stop because it has no direct way to comment on issues or anything like that, so I've been less tempted to get into online slapfights with people that aren't worth the time.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The only instance I've blocked is nsfw because I'm not into porn. The others have never bothered me.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I never block anyone or any instance. I simply ignore them. I also use the subscribed feed, so what most of the people say about hexbear, lemmygrad, etc. content filling their feed also does not affect me.

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