I don't block instances. I block communities and users. An instance is too large a group of people. They're not a monolith. Some people on hexbear are garbage and some are not. Some topics encourage jerks, some do not.

[–] seathru@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At a point the garbage to quality ratio gets too high to do that. Yeah, I'm sure some decent folks get blocked when you block a whole instance, but there's plenty of other people in non shithole instances to more than make up for it. I just use whichever method is most efficient at cleaning up my feed at the time.

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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hexbear say what?

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

unpopular opinion time: hexbear isn't that bad. I've had to block a few communities, but I do that with any instance. I've had to block more on hexbear, but it's not a ton. I've had to block more people on hexbear than other instances, but it's not that bad. I appreciate their different viewpoints. I don't like echo chambers and I learn a lot.

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[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Isreal Palestine threads are also great for finding users to block. Reeeaaallly petty and vain way to use a decades long humanitarian tragedy, but I personally dont want to listen to the opinions of anyone who'd celebrate violence and horror of that level

[–] UnknownQuantity@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Holy duck! Lemmy has become r/conservative.

I'm a leftie and can't stand tankies, but lemmy is becoming a really intolerant place. On reddit we were all united against u/spez no matter our other disagreements. Here, after only a few months we're talking about blocking instances and communities instead of just joining and viewing the ones that Interest us...

Perhaps it's time to let this experiment run its course.

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 year ago

Or maybe, just maybe, I grew tired of seeing genocide apologia and the defence of authoritarian governments in my feed.

[–] snazzles@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mate I've only been here like a week and I can promise you that most people here are left-wing

Edit: reddit was united with everyone hating each other lmao

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I just want a news feed that doesnt constantly anger me and convince me to argue. I'd wanted to block TwoXChromosomes on reddit forever because I wasnt its target audience and got nothing out of it. So I'm personally enjoying actually getting some control over my echo chamber for once

Edit: Also, nuanced takes I disagree with? I dont block those. Its the batshit/extremist ones that I block, I dont feel they are really adding much to my life anyways

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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, the comments are really turning into a dumpster fire.

My hot take is not to block instances because you can't report what you can't see

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I wasn't expecting this to blow up as much as it did lmao

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Via browser, add '/instances' to the URL of your instance. It will tell you what you can reach and what is already blocked

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[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I would suggest some, but I'm pretty controversial and no one likes that

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