• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    TBH I just stick to the feed and block the communities I don’t want to see. Especially avoid anything on Hexbear or lemmy ml, those instances are CCP propoganda trying to convince the west to off each other and themselves.

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      6 months ago

      Same here. Everything, sorted by scaled, and I block communities that annoy me. Or entire instances, but so far that’s just been hexbear

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      6 months ago

      You should choose an instance that defederates from those instances if you don’t like them (or try to convince your current admins to defederate).

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        6 months ago

        I can’t decide I don’t like them if I haven’t seen any of their things, plus the block feature works well enough.

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          6 months ago

          The block feature only hides posts from those instances communities, not comments (unless you block individual users, but then you have to block a whole lot of users).

          Also users from those instances will still have an influence on your feed via their voting. For example if you think an instance is a source of political propaganda, they can still promote that political agenda via voting.

          Defederation is a more effective solution if you want to avoid an instance.

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      6 months ago

      I see so many comments like this across lemmy and so little offensive content from those instances that I’m really beginning to wonder who the actual propagandists are.