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Hey there,

I'm a refugee from Squabbles/Squablr.co.

I didn't care for the recent changes to the TOS nor the "free speech site" dog whistle announcement.

I really liked the lack of downvoting there, so someone suggested Beehaw.

I've been slow to give Lemmy a try. I read that the founder developer and current owner of Lemmy.ML is a "tankie" - a European communist extremist.

Is it possible with my Beehaw account to filter lemmy.ml out and is it something I want to do?

I'm not familiar with subject driven fediverse social media yet.

Happy weekend to all

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's not natively supported in Lemmy yet but lots of third party apps can. If you're on Android Sync and Connect both support it.

You're not wrong about the tankie thing, I'd say it's the major conflict in the "threadiverse" right now.

As you can see, I'm on lemmy.ml on this account. The moderation of the server is definitely weird. Since it is the flagship server there's more diversity of thought than you would expect.

If you want to avoid the tankie trolling and brigading the instances you want to block are lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am generally of pretty radical political leanings but holy shit hexbear is stupid.

Taking frustrations with the monsterous inequity and suffering of the current USA lead military hegemony to such a useless extreme that everyone who opposes the usa is an angle and anything that remotely aligns with the interests of the usa must be unredeemable evil.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, their whole schtick is pretty annoying

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

I'm using a desktop web browser.

How would I block those instances?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beehaw is already defederated from both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Better than awesome! I've got so many nice responses. My impression of Lemmy is changing quickly! Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

if you have uBlock Origin set up you can adapt my filters: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1633853

Something along the lines of this should work for you:

beehaw.org##.person-listing[title$="@lemmygrad.ml"]:upward(:is(.post-listing, .comment))
beehaw.org##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title$="@lemmygrad.ml"])
beehaw.org##.person-listing[title$="@hexbear.net"]:upward(:is(.post-listing, .comment))
beehaw.org##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title$="@hexbear.net"])

edit: beehaw seems to have defederated both already, so you don't need to do anything to block those two instances.

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

About a year or two ago I learned how to make custom Ublock filters for an old web board I use. No easy task, so I really appreciate this. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So both of

https://alexandrite.app/

https://vger.app

are alternative web front ends to lemmy. The former is more desktop oriented. I don't think Voyager supports it yet but they update at a breakneck pace.

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

Can I use either of those with my BeeHaw account?

I joined BeeHaw because I don't like downvoting and content ranking.

Thanks for the URLs.

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

Yes! They should work with any Lemmy instance (including beehaw)

It sounds like you joined the right server, beehaw is generally considered the friendliest and best moderated server on here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The reception I am getting here is the nicest I've gotten since I left Reddit to try other platforms. It is quickly changing my impression of Lemmy.

Thank you!

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

Wow! Alexandrite.App is MUCH nicer! Thanks for the tip!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're welcome! The explosion of great alternative frontends is one of my favorite things

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

You’re not wrong about the tankie thing, I’d say it’s the major conflict in the “threadiverse” right now.

That is GOOD to hear. I came across a post on Reddit about the founder a few months ago. I posted about it on my Mastodon account and got some crap from some guy about it, but that was about it aside from apathetic responses. I got the impression nobody cared.

Thanks for the very helpful information.

This is the nicest reception I've gotten on any platform since Reddit diaspora.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fediverse people can be... territorial. I try to counteract it where I can, especially for newcomers. Welcome and you're welcome!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Welcome and I hope you enjoy interacting in this space!

One thing to note is that communities across the instances (lemmy.ml being an instance) will have varying content and vibe, and may differ from what you might expect of an instance. So if you're selective with the communities you subscribe to and typically only scroll through your Subscribed front page, filtering out lemmy.ml might not be necessary.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’m not sure if it can block entire instances, but Voyager supports blocking communities. If you’ve used Apollo it’s pretty much that as a web app

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, but I am a desktop web browser user.

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

As @[email protected] said, use https://alexandrite.app/ . It's a really good desktop interface to lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Indeed!

I am using it now. Thanks for the tip!

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

Thank you!