Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it's one of the best things I've ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I'd been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I'd blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I'd had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a "meme" implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you're saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell...

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

here's the context

I'm opposed to genocidal ethnostates, so i use instances where you aren't going to be censored for talking about them

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't really understand that post. It seems to be lemmy.world, not piefed. The no Hamas comment is still standing there, so it seems it's more about the "rapey"?

To be honest, you are on an instance that is apologetic of Russia and North Korea, I don't think that's better either. Censorship is definitely way more present on lemmy.ml, it's just your world view aligns better with the "anti imperialistic" stance lemmy.ml is holding up.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it's their other account. same name. the OP was about a gay cruising app blocking people from saying 'no zionists', someone asked if 'no nazis' was allowed, highlighting the similarity between the ideologies. this guy then decided to bring up rape and hamas in response, clearly he has a side and felt the need to keep pressing on it even after his gross comment was removed.

i'd rather be here than on a pro-zionist instance. if you prefer that sort of censorship, i can see why you'd disagree.