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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the tech side of .ml is why I haven't blocked that instance. They genuinely care about privacy and FOSS, as is the instance description. When I joined lemmy, I considered .ml for my home instance.
As soon as politics comes up though, the tankies come out in force, and oh boy the temptation to get banned is real.
.world is neoliberal lumpen who violently reject anything that threatens their politician's current narrative. They're not thinking for themselves. They can't discern left from right, thus reject both with equal hostility.
I believe they.are so far left, they are now right politically. I just blocked the group when I was down voted to berated because I linked an AP article, which they think is a heavily biased source.
I believe they.are so far left, they are now right politically
That's not how the horseshoe works, lumpen.
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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.
Nor am I. I'm also not the sort of person who expresses their comments in absolute terms.
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.
I honestly appreciate the alternative perspective of some of the other instances but it just gets toxic, unfortunately.
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.
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.
The only instance I've blocked is nsfw because I'm not into porn. The others have never bothered me.