Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I’d been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I’d blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I’d had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a “meme” implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you’re saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell…

  • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    182·
    14 days ago

    Pro russia propaganda is generally contained in ml own communities. The tiresome thing for me is zionist tolerant instances and communities and fake palestinians supporter who both side the colonizers and the colonized or defend rhe democrats support for the colonizers

    • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      96·
      14 days ago

      No I seem them regularly spreading pro russian propaganda and demeaning jabs against ukrainans in .world communities. The instance has to many disgusting users for it to be waved away with the “few bad apples” defense

      • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        14 days ago

        My argument was not to say that there is only few bad apples on the ml just that in my experience I don’t see their propaganda that much often outside of their bubble

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        14 days ago

        The instance has to many disgusting users for it to be waved away with the “few bad apples” defense

        Meanwhile .world has Zionists modding it’s major coms

  • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    172·
    13 days ago

    Could someone give some examples of these leftist propaganda posts? I just browse all top day, maybe they get diluted enough for me to overlook these… i’ve seen this argument pass by so many times.

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      77·
      13 days ago

      If you criticism the Chinese government on a .ml instance, you will quickly get banned for “rule 2: xenophobia”.

      Go to basically any comment section of a politics-related popular post on a .ml instance. I can almost guarantee that there will be some china/Russia/north Korea brainless take.

      • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
        22·
        13 days ago

        Had a look, all I can say is that they don’t quite come up when I browse all, and if they do I just don’t bother and skip over them. They’re not funny and the message therein is not one I support.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      67·
      13 days ago

      Try commenting that maybe, just maybe, Stalin wasn’t the greatest benefactor of humanity, ever.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    152·
    13 days ago

    People should block users and instances that they dont want to see. They are in charge of their account. Then you wont have to feudpost about these people you blocked because you wont see them.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      34·
      13 days ago

      Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.

      In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.

      This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.

      This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click “Settings”.

      At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says “Blocks”.

      Here you will see “Block user” “Block community” and “Block instance”. Click the down arrow below “Block instance”.

      This will open up a search bar. Type “lemmy.ml” and click it after it shows up. That’s it! You’ve blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance.

      But wait, we aren’t done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under “Block user”. Now type “UltraGiGaGigantic” Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    175·
    14 days ago

    I’m on .ml and just don’t see this. I moved here from .world after the cat food ban. The stupidity burned too much for me to stay there. I’m unsubscribed to most of the lemmy communities where the political crap is, so maybe that helps.

      • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
        101·
        14 days ago

        It’s a long story but basically after some stupid drama, lemmy.world banned discussion of cat food unless there was scientific evidence presented that the cat food was healthy for the cat. The drama had been about vegan cat food discussions in the vegan discussion group. Vegan cat food turns out to be a thing and appears to have enough approvals to be sold in pet stores, but people on .world wanting to talk about it should come over here to .ml. No I wasn’t a participant in the vegan group discussion itself. I made some posts in the surrounding drama thread that you can probably find in my .world profile from shortly after I joined.

        • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          14 days ago

          oh man, I forgot about that shit. I’m pretty sure I got banned from some communities for that.

          🤷 I just blocked them back and moved on.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    134·
    13 days ago

    Damn, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen one of these “greetings fellow leftists” posts whining about .ml.

  • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    14 days ago

    I use Lemmy.world. I don’t see any of this drama, about cat food or leftists. I do see posts that used to be regular at Reddit, with decent discussion.

  • liking625@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    13 days ago

    When everything is extreme and far right, any attempt to common sense will seem far far to the left.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      13 days ago

      and when the vast majority of the population is in the middle, and you’re on the extreme, you’ll think they are against you.

      when what they really think is you are weird and annoying and you should shut up because you’re talking about shit that nobody wants or even cares about.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        13 days ago

        you should shut up because you’re talking about shit that nobody wants or even cares about.

        Dont want to see that stuff? Then use your block feature. You will get way better results then just telling other people to comment/post less doofus.

      • liking625@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        I see vast majority in the far right though, swallowing the pill, starting proof is how they vote, the hate for immigration, the normalization of genocide, denying of scientific method , as in flat earthers, anti vaccines, podcasters and youtubers who didn’t study shit spreading misinformation as science, etc, trillionares advocating for destroying public services and keep the poor ,poorest, normalization of "coliving’ and ultra small habitation as a normal thing, etc. I could keep on with examples whole day long.

        • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          12 days ago

          you spend too much time on feeding the algorithms. i don’t ever see any of that shit, because i’m not interested in it.

          if you only listen to crazy people, you will think everyone is crazy because you don’t ever talk to normal people, and you probably won’t pay attention to them anyway, because they arent’ saying crazy shit.

          stop living to be upset and offended and you might actually realize how chill the average person is.

          • liking625@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            12 days ago

            You are probably right in most of what you say, the problem is I also see it neighbours, or even friends spilling the garbage.

            • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              7 days ago

              then move or get new friends.

              you don’t have the right to tell other people how to live their lives or to make their choices for them.

              • liking625@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 days ago

                Well, if they ask my opinion in a converation I will give it to them, and i at the very least can be well concerned if they start venting anti-inmigration crap they heared from the news media.

                • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  5 days ago

                  that’s like every relationship i’ve ever had. i’m not sure where people get these relationships where other people share their opinions in lock step with them.

                  everyone i know has different feelings on various issues.

    • Richard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      23·
      12 days ago

      If this thread was talking about universal heathcare, or how to give people actual equal rights, or how to improve public education, or how eliminate modern fascism from western politics, or how the US governmemt should be reformed from the ground up we would be talking all day, and likely agreeing in a lot of points.

      But i don’t think North Korea is a good place to live in, my brother.

      • rzadkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        Yankees would rather keep believing that north korean women casually travel with 200kg bags of rice than stop pushing nazis as “progressive reformists”

  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    126·
    13 days ago

    Amen brother.

    There are a few instances where like 90% of the problematic content and users come from. Blocking them makes the fediverse FAR more enjoyable and pleasant. And reduces the harassment and violent content by 90%

    Sane leftists need to shut out the insane ones. Those folks dont’ care about politics in any actionable way. All they care about is feeling superior to everyone else based on their theoretical beliefs and their weird cult of worship they have created with facts don’t matter and alternative history is the truth.

    I’m currently debating with myself whether to block sh.itjust.works next, because it seems to be becoming another hotbed of bad actors who are here to be purely negative and hostile to other users and push extremist content, and if you counter point them they just harass the shit out of you and follow you around across various communities.

    in fact a lot of folks i blocked on other instances are now posting from that instance under the same username. seems like some folks just keep swapping instances once enough folks have blocked them on another instance for their harassment and horrible posts.

  • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    149·
    14 days ago

    ML is not far-left, it pretends to be in order to spread pro-Putin, pro-Russian, and pro-Republican state propaganda because they know it’s destroying America. ML and Russia are about as socialist as the Nazis claimed to be.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      52·
      13 days ago

      Marxism-Leninism is an ideology centered around establishing collectivized economy and eradicating class society. The only support MLs have of Russia is with respect to their opposition to the western imperialist hegemony, not for Russia in general. This is the meaning of “critical support.”

      • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        13 days ago

        In the laudable goal of dismantling of western hegemony, .ml and Russia are certainly having an effect. However, it’s quite clear to me that a Marxist-Leninist alternative is not the goal.

        The problem I see is that they’re working to simply replace one imperialist system with another. If in the work of dismantling American hegemony they serve to support a Soviet-style dictator’s hegemony, its just the same imperialism using Marxist-Leninism as the justification instead of “democracy” and “capitalism”. Furthermore, supporting MAGA as a vehicle to weaponize US incompetence is still supporting an authoritarian president, even if it effectively shrinks American hegemony.

        This is the same Cold War of constructed ideologies we’ve been fighting since the end of WWII, it is just that America has been ahead until now. Us vs. Them; America in the Middle East, Russia in Eastern Europe, China in the Pacific, Vietnam, Korea, etc. It’s just empires snatching up vassals and exploiting influence. The only difference is that in the US, we use the veneer of elections to “legitimize” it.

        I cannot claim to be impartial or innocent of this, but I still think it’s disingenuous to misrepresent the philosophy of Marxist-Leninism to in-effect support yet another imperialist and authoritarian system just like the US does with democracy, and that support is all I ever see from the users and communities of ML. Although I’m sure ML can say the same thing, which seems to be how we ended up here.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlEnglish
          32·
          13 days ago

          Russia is not imperialist, as it utterly lacks the finance capital required to be as such. It’s predominantly an industrial economy without any colonies nor neocolonies, similar to Iran. Marxist-Leninists do not support the capitalist economy of Russia, but the idea that it even could replace the US Empire as world hegemon is frankly a result of a lack of understanding how and why the US Empire is what it is. Finance capital is the key, and Russia has a tiny amount of it relative to the rest of the world.

          As for “authoritarianism,” Marxist-Leninists support workers having control of state authority. All states are authoritarian, the distinction lies primarily in which class wields it. The form may change, and the extent it is applied also changes based on conditions, but at the end of the day the state is an instrument of the ruling class in any given society, be it capitalists or workers. As such, no Marxist-Leninists support the dictatorship of capital in Russia.