There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

if you were not aware, you can block the instance without de-federation

Blocking the hexbear.net lemmy.ml & lemmygrad.ml will make Lemmy a much better day to day experience

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Beehaw's still on 0.18.4 and from a post I saw a while back, isn't planning to go beyond that. So user-level instance blocking isn't an option there, unfortunately.

Instance blocking also only blocks posts; you'll still see the users from there in the comments. So it's nice, but doesn't go quite far enough; you still have to block obnoxious accounts manually/individually.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 months ago

Oh, good to know. Thanks

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I block anyone from Hexbear without even reading their comments.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 13 points 6 months ago

Blocking instances is equivalent to blocking all communities on that instance - so that means you'll still see comments from users on that instance and the users on those instances will still have an influence on your feed via voting.

Just pointing out that letting users block instances individually is not necessarily the desired solution.

[–] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 10 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the reminder; always forget that's an option. Luckily Beehaw already defederated from Hexbear and lemmygrad.