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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[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, they're fucking bonkers over there. I absolutely do not toe the line for America, but .ml people repeatedly accused me of being a chauvinist even as I was actively bad mouthing the country, because I called them out on this exact topic of "the tanmen square adjacent massacre". It was

my first back and forth interaction on .ml
where I learned about this weird "ackshully there was no massacre IN tianmen square" tactic
my permaban from .ml for calling it out
why I never have to worry about their bonkers instance in my feed

All in all, they gave me a great gift. I wasted a total of 20 minutes or so with them, and then they gave me a boon that lasts forever. I'm pretty sure it's like mirror universe /pol/, a limited hangout for billionaire social control reasons.