NSFW/porn ones. Nothing against porn, it just should be separate and not pop up constantly when browsing /all
agreed. i have a ton of furry porn and other cartoon porn communities blocked, they seem to pop up in my /all frequently.
If you want that to be the reality of the situation then you need to post and upvote other things more.
The same ones that should be on everyone’s: ml, hexbear, lemmygrad
The ones that don’t primarily use English simply because I can’t understand what they’re talking about, and even if I could, it’s usually about the issues in another country that I can’t do anything about, so my input is useless.
I don’t really bother blocking people; I prefer to use my winning personality to make them exit the conversation
Lemmy.world obviously as it’s the biggest instance. Then ofcourse the usual suspects: Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Looking at that list the only other instances that seem slightly over-represented are dbzer0 and blahaj
As an admin I don’t block nearly as often as I ban. Most banned users are from .world or dbzer0. We also defederate the tankie triad.
What does it even mean to block as an admin? Wouldn’t that be abdicating your responsibilities?
Yes, that’s why I have no blocks
I mean, someone could have an admin account and a non-admin account with different block settings, I guess.
A lot of that hornyposting stuff. You know the people. I’m already thinking about that shit enough. I come here to not do that lol
No one blocked yet.
Looking at it looks to be lemmy.world which makes sense, as if I recall it’s the biggest instance
Don’t want to start any drama by listing specifics, but basically any instance that advertises itself as “a space for {insert flavor of identity politics here}”.
Is trekkie a political identity?
Gender: TOS. Pronouns: Kirk/Spock 🤣
I have a lot of blahj users blocked, across various different blahj instances. some of whom i notice have the same username across multiple instances where they spam rage bait content and tons of hostile commentary. most of them were from my /all feed where i saw them spamming this stuff.
I don’t really consider blahaj as an “identity politics” instance, but I think I know which users you’re referring to (or at least their style). I’ve probably had those blocked for a while now.
Edit: A few of those have older hexbear alts which kind-of explains things.
Hex Ml db0
what is db0? i’m not familiar but i noticed i have tons of people from that instance on my block list.
We’re too leftist over here for homie. Lemmy.bzer0.com.
It’s not the leftism it’s the unapologetic felatio to your tankie friends. At least ml is honest about who they are. You lot pretend to be anarchists but cream your pants for State sponsored authoritarianism as long as it comes out of China, Iran, Cuba, Russia or one of the other triad countries.
as an anarchist I have way more common cause with ‘tankies’ than with running dogs for empire
That’s not me. Bark at someone else.
if you run around with a bunch of clowns, you’re part of the circus 🎪
Inadvertent Dwarf Fortress reference!
It was more of a big red tint joke
Cool story.
An average hard-line lefty instance that’s pretending to be Anarchist, except that they don’t actually follow Anarchist ideals and the admins decide what kind of Anarchism is “real Anarchism”. The only flavor difference from most (Lefty) instances is that they welcome AI generated stuff, which is overwhelmingly hated on Lemmy.
My favorite part is how their own Golden Rules conflict with their own Code of Conduct, not to mention their admins blatantly do not follow either. It’s hardly surprising you have a lot of them blocked.
A weird “anarchist” instance that bans people if they down vote or say negative things about AI or the blahaj admin for some reason. I think db0 made a blahaj admin a db0 admin or something, there’s a weird cross over.
But it’s what you expect when an “anarchist” names their entire instance their own username.
not disagreeing that some of the hot takes are pretty out there… but I try to feed my inner lefty from as many sources as possible and a non-zero number of posts lead to interesting articles, regardless of the sometimes suspect commentary.
They can make all those takes in civilized places…
Like, if you run into mods you don’t like: block their communities.
You run into heavy handed admins that enforce stupid rules across all their communities, you just block every community on their instance at once instead of one at a time.
This is especially helpful for people who browse /all because those problematic instances tend to be full of people who want to mod 27 different communities and won’t stop making new ones.
It comes off as spam to a lot of people, which is why an instance block is valuable. It just stops people from accidentally going somewhere on the fediverse that they don’t want to fuck with.
i’ve blocked zero instances.
i got all the guys with the big ass block letters for names on my block list
Blahaj.zone and dbzer0
I don’t presently block any instances, and my home instance has a “no defederation” policy.
I think I’ve blocked about three users, all of whom were spamming content to try to make threads unreadable.
That being said, I don’t subscribe to communities on lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, or lemmy.ml, and I normally browse subscribed.
