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The lemmy.cafe instance is defederated from lemmy.ml and hexbear. If you use a lemmy.cafe account, you won't see any post/comment/communities from users of those instances.
For me, this works better than having to block users one by one. Lemmy is only tolerable to me because of this option.
Blocking Lemmy.ml, the oldest and one of the most active, seems more than extreme.
My other option is to completely quit Lemmy.
I'm actually thinking about it, most of the content from my country is just propaganda and manipulated news and every time I try to correct it I get downvoted to hell.
The rest is the same content I can already find in Reddit or content I don't really care about.
Also that thing about my posts/comments never really getting deleted or not allowing me to delete something if a power tripping mod from ml bans me, still bothers me.
Edit: also a lot of instances also block the nsfw ones for whatever reason... So that makes it even harder.
Yeah, I feel it too.
Lemmy fills about half the void left from when I quit using Reddit. Helps me keep up with things... but there is just so much negativity: outrage, propaganda, and outright gaslighting.
So much time spent blocking stuff just so I can scroll the feed without killing my mood. Power users, power tripping mod/admins, users solely here to push an agenda, and the hivemind are as prevalent as ever.
On a technical level, I'm not even sure if the protocol is right for this kind of service. Large instances have so much power. The barrier for entry for small instances grows every day. User privacy and control of your own content sucks.
Not saying it's all bad here, just saying it feels lacking. At least reddit had varied and active niche communities, where you could find better quality discussions than the default subs.
Te entiendo.
I wish there were better alternatives. For now I use Lemmy only for specific communities.