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Finding an instance that blocks least and is least blocked (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there a way to shop around for a Lemmy instance based on how many instances are blocking it and how many instances it's blocking? For example, I noticed that the lemmygrad.ml instance is relatively popular, but it seems like a lot of other instances block it. It also blocks a bunch of other instances. So, if there are any communities on there that might be relevant to me then I would be missing out. I guess I could just create an account on a walled instance, but I would prefer not to keep creating accounts. I'd like to just find one instance that maximizes my access. Is the answer to just run my own instance?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lemmygrad has a history of brigading communities, targeted harassment towards admins and prolific political posters, and as i mentioned before, sealioning (defined by Wikipedia as "a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ('I'm just trying to have a debate'), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter")

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how do you differentiate 'brigading' from just being outside the ideological orthodox of a given community? Shouldn't bad actors just be banned personally?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they mass-report and/or mass-downvote people they don't see as communist enough and drown out any good-faith discussion in the comments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

How is that any different from what I've been saying? Liberals from beehaw also have 'mass downvoted' people for being communist or pro China etc, but does that mean everyone from that community should be blocked? As for good faith discussion you're just defining comments you don't agree with as being inherently bad faith. I mean I'm sure there's some comments just like 'kill yourself lol' that are completely without merit but like I said it just seems like an instinctual anti communist reaction.

Well I haven't been on this site for very long so maybe I'll see what you mean eventually. I still think it's best in general to not fracture this already-tiny community though.