• Literocola@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      How do I block .ml results?

      Are there other servers which amplify problematic content?

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        So the Tankie Triad is:

        Edit: The trouble is that, as far as I know, there’s currently no way as a user to block an entire instance. You can play whack-a-/C and block communities as you bump into them. The other option is to look for instances that have de-federated from these instances, and make a new account on one of those instances.

        As @[email protected] pointed out, instance blocking is possible:

        You can block instances in your settings. For your instance, that’s lemmy.ca/settings then selects blocks and add the instances you want to block

        Are there other servers which amplify problematic content?

        There’s a lot more than the 3 listed above, the ones I listed are militant in their belief that Russia and China are Marxist-Leninist utopias. There’s some communities and users across all the instances that are problematic. If you see something you don’t like, block the user or community.

        • 🇨🇦 holdstrong@lemm.ee
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          There doesn’t seem to be a way to block all users of an instance though unfortunately. You can still see posts and comments they make on other instances

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          I’m seeing a lot of people call Hexbear a tankie instance lately - they aren’t really though, they are an instance full of trolls who are militant against any belief system at all (most especially their own?), or as near to that as makes no difference. They constantly lie - most especially to one another, and have even been caught lying to other instance admins.

          I would lump Hexbear in under a name like The Big Three (to block), but I just thought I’d point out that many people are going to argue at its being called specifically a “tankie” one. And ofc it’s more than just these three - e.g. Midwest.social has been caught in numerous scandals as well, though unlike the Big Three, the actual users there are perfectly fine, so I don’t advocate for blocking it, just avoiding the communities there.

          Speaking of, the Lemmy “instance blocking” would have been much better named as a “community mute”, since it allows you to see the users from that instance, and they can vote on and reply to your content, triggering notifications, etc. The only real way to do an actual instance block is to move to an instance that has defederated from it (requires admin rights), or use PieFed that can implement a true user block from any instance you ask for (no admin approval necessary), or the Lemmy apps Sync and Connect can likewise do that.

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            I’m seeing a lot of people call Hexbear a tankie instance lately - they aren’t really though, they are an instance full of trolls who are militant against any belief system at all (most especially their own?), or as near to that as makes no difference. They constantly lie - most especially to one another,

            From my experience they’re anarchists/communists like they say they are.

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              From my experience and the majority of Lemmy’s, they’re tankies.

              The only people I really seeing anarchists/communists are places like db0.