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…

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipEnglish
    45·
    14 hours ago

    Hey bud, what are these?

    https://lemmy.zip/post/67679872

    https://lemmy.zip/post/66807069

    https://lemmy.zip/post/65520813

    Verbatim “one of these is a cancer that needs cut out and the other is the DPRK”

    This is one example.

    This is why people don’t like you guys, you’re not honest with yourselves or others.

    Granted I was being a little hyperbolic but this person has actually said that North Korea is one of the best countries on earth and that everything we hear and say about it is a lie.

    I notice they never post from “best Korea” though. Hmmm

    Edit: Awww, did I hurt your feelings by proving you wrong that now you have to post under other comments of mine telling me to go back to reddit? That’s cute sweetheart. It sucks to be in a place you can’t silence people and ban them on huh?

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      44·
      12 hours ago

      This is why people don’t like you guys, you’re not honest with yourselves or others.

      Literally none of those say that NK is a utopia. Once again, you’re just being unambiguously dishonest.

      Granted I was being a little hyperbolic

      Aka lying.

      actually said that North Korea is one of the best countries on earth and that everything we hear and say about it is a lie.

      “Yes I was lying before but actually [more lies]”

      Edit: Awww, did I hurt your feelings by proving you wrong that now you have to post under other comments of mine telling me to go back to reddit? That’s cute sweetheart. It sucks to be in a place you can’t silence people and ban them on huh?

      Why do you reddit dorks talk like wannabe anime villains?

      • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipEnglish
        23·
        11 hours ago

        You missed the part about where he said it was one of the greatest countries on earth? What is a utopia? A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its residents

        Would being “one of the best countries on earth” not be saying its utopia like. Sure they didn’t say the exact phrase utopia they did say that North Korea is one of the best countries in the world though.

        Is that dishonest? Or are you just not capable of understanding things you don’t like?

        You’re an idiot who is incapable of admitting when they are wrong. And this is how all of you are over there.

        Also I don’t use reddit and haven’t in over 8 years.

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          32·
          9 hours ago

          You missed the part about where he said it was one of the greatest countries on earth? What is a utopia? A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its residents

          So no, he didn’t call it a utopia, you’re just trying to torture the definitions of words to retroactively justify your objective lie.

          Is that dishonest? Or are you just not capable of understanding things you don’t like?

          I’m capable of not lying about things I don’t like

          You’re an idiot who is incapable of admitting when they are wrong. And this is how all of you are over there.

          📽️

          Also I don’t use reddit and haven’t in over 8 years.

          Then you should probably stop talking like a caricature of an insufferable Reddit loser.