I’m done, I’ve been banned for expressing a different opinion (without insulting or personally attacking anyone), I’ve been accused of evading a ban with multiple accounts (this is my only account I’ve ever had on any lemmy instance), I’ve had people selectively ignore my comments and accuse me of things which I never said, and I’ve had people ignore valid criticisms and keep attacking me.
Reddit has many issues with trolls, one-sided discussion, and just general bullshit, but many Lemmy instances are way worse. The newfound freedom of Lemmy has attracted many extremists, from both sides, and many of them are moderators, who are more than happy to remove any contrarian opinions. This results in discussions being echo chambers
Is this an unpopular opinion? My block list on Lemmy is like 4 times bigger than it was on Reddit.
I haven’t seen too many right wingers on lemmy. I think the lefties have managed to make it hostile enough to conservatives to deter the bulk of them
My block list is extremely large too. It seems someone wants to make a community for everything no matter now niche it is. And so many random anime comms I have to block as I am not a anime fan. I get the message when browsing all “you have blocked all posts on page x” so often it’s become an annoyance.
i have said this before, but don’t have the energy to do something about it: a problem in lemmy is, that there are no categories to subscribe or block. like if someone hates sports, he can’t block all sports, but must either subscribe everything but sports (impossible) or block/filter every new spots sub or sports post author (impossible as well)
Lemmy is still in the alpha stage, but absolutely this would make a heck of a lot easier:-).
Otherwise it’s a continual issue - every month someone creates new communities that you have to first visit, then block, and then again, and again, and again.
It’s not that bad, but it could be better:-).
I would love if my app would let me block a community from the post on all. I do it SO often.
Once in a while I search for communities I might like and subscribe to them. I then only browse my subscribed communities, so I don’t have to block communities. I think of it as white listing my Lemmy feed.
Browsing all and then blocking communities I don’t like seems like black listing. It seems like it’s a lot more work.
This, there’s some crazy people no matter where you go.
For example, yesterday some loon was attacking another poster because he viewed it as, anti-American. Suffice to say, it was not and he misconstrued what was said and he was humanly incapable of admitting wrongdoing. His response was to make burner accounts and downvote bomb the user.
Yeah, it’s pretty funny how extreme some people are. Of course in real life they don’t say shit.
And it grows every day. WHY can’t I just FUCKING BLOCK an instance yet! I guess shitjustworks doesn’t fucking work.
Edit: there is nothing worth seeing on blahaj.zone, ani.social, or hexbear. Period. Who will rid me of these meddlesome instances.
I mean, I like anime so ani.social is nice for me. There are some interesting discussion posts and memes I enjoy seeing from there. But the other two I have often found the users to be difficult to converse with, so I have them both blocked. Its unfortunate that blocking instances isn’t easier (I use Connect for Lemmy on Android, which supports blocking instances), but such is the price to pay for Lemmys very rapid expansion in such a short amount of time. Lemmy wasn’t ready for that kind of growth, and it has the growing pains to prove it. The experience will be somewhat poor for early adopters, but the newcomers will have it a bit better probably.
