Never thought about blocking lemmy.world … Maybe I should!
.World has the highest post activity. But someone pointed out their instance is heavily reposting from Reddit.
Makes sense why they resemble it so much.
Lemmy world? What did we do? :x
Lemmy.world is a very libbed up instance, when I say liberal I mean in the political definition and not the us slag.
Genuinely blocking the bad .world made lemmy not ‘just reddit’ and thus so much better.
If I wanted far right wing corporate sponsored viewpoints like “genocide is necessary so we can survive” I would just make another reddit account.
If I am on voyager can I block an instance? If I wanted to hear the viewpoints of the view and all the other cable news anchors repeated back ad nauseum I would watch tv
Yes, you can. But you don’t do it from the instance page, you have to add it to the list of blocked instances in voyager options
Is Voyager a mobile app? Would it completely hide comments? Connect seems to have killed .world posts but just put a “view” button over comments.
I just had to block that whole instance as well, especially because the same people mod all the subs. They literally delete me comments for being “uncivil,” though I was literally just repeating back what was said to me. Those comments were allowed to stay, of course. The mod was supposedly generous for not banning me. It’s cool, bro, I’ll ban myself.
I had this going on with hexbear for the longest time. It was a mix of my client not supporting instance bans, me not being willing to change clients, and a remaining shred of faith in humanity that - surely - there must be some good people on the site with something of value to add.
In the end, I ended up deciding that the noise to Signal ratio was so high, it wasn’t worth the time filtering through the steam of mental fecal matter to interact with the rare sane person; I switched clients, blocked the instance, and am far more happy.
Some instances simply aren’t worth losing brain cells for the relatively few people of value on them. It’s a sledgehammer tool, and I’ve used it only twice, but in both cases it’s been a positive quality-of-life feature.
I’ve never even gotten to experience what everyone talks about regarding hexbear bc my instance is defederated from them. I guess it’s a good thing though lol
