Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I’d been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I’d blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I’d had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a “meme” implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you’re saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell…

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    71·
    1 day ago

    The developer for Piefed.Social’s main front end app that they develop literally has censorship baked into the code with hardcoded instance blocks that are not obvious to the user or even a new instance creator who doesn’t look to far into the details…

    So what are you saying is, your bubble is nice and you aren’t willing to confront how or why the bubble looks as unchallenging to your belief systems as it does :)

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

    https://lemmy.pobierz.net/post/1293

    I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it’s been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.

    Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There’s a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we’ve been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.

    This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.

    When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.

    Isn’t it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don’t just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn’t it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think…

    Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I’ll doubt I’ll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we’ll bring up mlmym again now that someone’s maintaining it again.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      1 day ago

      yeah. i also blocked db0 manually too. no idea what the other instance is. pretty sure i blocked db0 before it was a standard block on piefed.

      i have no interest in anarchists and their delusional worldviews and their fantasizing about violence and revolution.

      i don’t have a belief system. but i notice pretty much everyone fedi loves to tell me about how wrong mine is and how i need to believe what they believe or I’m a terrible awful shitty human being.

      i also don’t buy penis enlargement pills, or listen to fundamentalist Christians, or flat earthers and lots other things. those folks also ‘challenge my belief system’, but my belief is that they are deranged and obsessed with falsehoods.

      mormons come to by door a few times a year and want to educate about how christ will make my life meaningful and amazing, i also don’t listen to them either. and i highly doubt you are letting them into your home to lecture you too.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        71·
        1 day ago

        i don’t have a belief system.

        facepalm I really hate being reminded constantly of how important a well rounded education with arts, language and critical thinking stressed as well as STEM concepts is…

        Yes, you most definitely have a belief system just as much as you most certainly have biases, it is part of being a human being.

        • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          1 day ago

          Oh yeah, what is my belief system them?

          according to posters on lemmy, I vote for trump, but i’m also far left, i’m a centrist lib, but also a far right socialist, etc.

          weird how that there is zero consistency in how others categorize me… perhaps because I don’t have a rigid well-defined system of belief that they insist I must have. you have have beliefs about the world without them being systematic or unified under any particular ideology or political grouping.

          though i understand that for most fediverse users, this idea is inconceivable, because they live to define themselves and others by belief systems, and like you, then immediately go for insults about how stupid, dumb, and ignorant you are, if you don’t agree with them about your own beliefs.

          because you know, just insult, mock, and harass anyone who doesn’t agree with you. as you just done. because you are some superior being who is so well-educated and I am clearly an ignorant fool who should listen to you and your wisdom.

          • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            6·
            1 day ago

            No, don’t listen to my opinions, disagree with them vehemently that is fine.

            What you need to stop doing is conflating having an inconsistent, unexamined belief system handed to you by the society around you and the cues you took from it with not having a belief system which is literally impossible as a sentient human trying to make sense of the world around them.

            I was kind of switching into a classist tone in my frustration and you are right to point it out, fair enough and genuinely that is a shitty thing to lean into I am sorry, I recognize education is extremely unequal and not knowing things is not a fair basis to judge people on… however please recognize that a lack of your awareness of parts of you does not mean those parts do not exist.

            • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
              28·
              1 day ago

              yeah, i’m such a dummy with my master’s degree which i had to spend two years writing a thesis on the topic of belief system formation.

              please tell me more about how awful I am though. and how hard it is to be you with your superior intellect and awareness of all things.

              and it’s not at all that you’re a yet another fragile egotistical fedi user who thinks they are a Supreme Genius, who tells other posters here how they lack ‘awareness’ for the crime of what… making you mad with words on computer screen you don’t like?

              • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
                4·
                20 hours ago

                Lol, what diploma will would give you a masters on belief system formation when you don’t even realize you have a belief system