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I found that things became much more pleasant on here when I blocked hexbear. I recently blocked lemmy.ml as well, but I may reverse that if I find that I'm missing too much good content.

I'm open to other ideas on how to mostly avoid people who love conflict or argue in bad faith.

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not because I've had any kind of bad experience with users on this instance, but I don't care for the posts on lemmy.blahaj.zone. I honestly just got tired of seeing the "Rule" posts; it's like 90% of their posts!

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a good point. Honestly I didn't notice all of those posts were from a single community, though in hindsight that makes a lot of sense.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you have them blocked? Is it just communities hosted there don't appear or do you not see the uswrs' comments elsewhere too?

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In Settings > Blocks > Blocked Instances

I think it's just the communities that don't appear.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess you can't read this but I'm on lemmy.blahaj.zone and I personally blocked the rule community. It's too many posts and doesn't fit the vibe

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually I can read this. Apparently blocking instances doesn't block their comments in communities that aren't hosted on the blocked instance.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I blocked some porn instance but otherwise nothing.

I'm not the kind of guy who must block something I don't agree with.

[–] DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Nor am I. I'm also not the sort of person who expresses their comments in absolute terms.

[–] Artemis@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Can someone please explain all the .ml hate? From what I've seen, it's mostly a tech (i.e., not tank!) instance and I haven't experienced any drama at all aside from other instances hating on us. It seems WAY too overblown and generalized from my experience. If the OP blocked .ml are they even able to see my response here?

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I honestly appreciate the alternative perspective of some of the other instances but it just gets toxic, unfortunately.

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

For now, I blocked three communities, one about gossiping and two about adult material. I also blocked a bot that keeps cross posting things from Reddit. That's all that I blocked so far.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The only instance I've blocked is nsfw because I'm not into porn. The others have never bothered me.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I never block anyone or any instance. I simply ignore them. I also use the subscribed feed, so what most of the people say about hexbear, lemmygrad, etc. content filling their feed also does not affect me.

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