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lemmy.world had difficulty handling new account registration when I tried moving from Reddit in June 2023, so I tried to find/join other instances. People said "it doesn't matter which instance you join."

Oh it definitely mattered.

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[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Are these dipshits still a problem around here? Since I joined, I've blocked hundreds of communities, instances, and users. I don't see them anymore

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

How do you guys get so many negative interactions? I've been on Lemmy for more than a year and I haven't blocked any community, instance or user. It's still enjoyable. I see the occasional Russia / China shill who gets downvoted to hell and that's it.

[–] Narauko@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I just recently got temp banned for .ml again for saying I didn't like Stalin because of the purges and gulags and cult of personality dictatorship, so make of that what you will. Either that or just using the word tankie is treated as hate speech because it was the infamous "Reason: Rule 1" with no further context. I was actually having an enjoyable and possibly productive conversation about communist theory too, but apparently that's not allowed.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My first month on lemmy a mod on .ml sent me a death threat and banned me from a community for basically stating that given the option between Trump and Kamala I voted Kamala.

So that was a fun interaction

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How many times did they use the word Capitalism and Liberal?

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy trinity of tankie attempts to save a losing argument

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The ML admins are the developers and maintainers of Lemmy codebase and hosts of Join Lemmy. I have a feeling it's gonna be real hard to get rid of them.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

I've been procrastinating that for a while now, probably time to move over to piefed.world

[–] doben@lemmy.wtf -5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

You saying the enlightened centrists are planning a fascist counter revolution?

The irony of naming an instance .world and then forcing western hegemonial culture on it. Just like in the real world.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

I agree that the West looks at the world with a western lens and that is ignorant. But why are you calling liberals fascist?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I can't hardly understand what you're saying with all of that dictator cock in your mouth.

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 20 hours ago

you're definitely a .world user

[–] doben@lemmy.wtf -4 points 23 hours ago

I have the suspicion, that you are indeed actually unable to understand. I‘m so sorry. But you seem to know what a cock is, nice! Guess that‘s something, you go!

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We need block lists that are based on data gathered from user block lists

[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, please! What a great idea

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good luck getting it approved by upstream Lemmy

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