• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Heads up, I can assure you the Lemmygrad and Hexbear folks are not trolling. They are legitimate believers of Chinese/Russian/North Korean talking points, and some of them even live there

      Welcome to the federated Internet

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          One reason why lemm.ee might not be the best newbie instance, most others have lemmygrad and hexbear defederated (read: blocked). You can block them yourself in your profile settings, or you can move to a different instance.

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          That depends on who your instance is federated with. Personally I have never seen any posts from them.

          I think you can easily block their instances, but sure it’s not the best starting point for new users.

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          Real fascists? My dear god you’re in a post that straight up wants a “make europe great again” and its us that are opposed “the real fascists”?

          Europe has unconditionally supported the ethnical cleansing of Palestinians and parrots Herzlian talking points but we are the anti-semites?

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          It’s everyone right to have an opinion, regardless of what their political affiliation is, as long as it doesn’t devolve into extremism.

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            1 month ago

            Indeed and what I also love about federation is it is also within your rights to not give people a platform or be forced to listen to them. If people don’t like what they have to say then they will still be able to shout but only into the void and echo chambers.

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          Lemmy.ca is a nice instance if you are looking for one that blocks those instances. The fascists were here before people from reddit started moving over, but as people started coming over that aspect started getting diluted. Now you just have to choose an instance that doesn’t federate with them.

    • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
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      1 month ago

      You can always check the /instances endpoint of every lemmy server to see its blocked instances.

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      In Voyager I can block instances in the settings. Not sure if that’s only voyager/specific apps or if that’s a Lemmy default.

      Besides that, migrating to an instance that has defederated from lemmygrad also works. I’m on lemmy.world and I’ve never seen anything from 'grad.

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        Ditto. I’m using this instance right now and I have never seen any of them so why don’t you come on over here? It’s nicer.

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      Awww, sorry the rest of the world doesn’t cowtail to your far-right neo-fascist delusional view of the world. It must be so hard for you, being exposed to differing views and all