this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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[–] Sheeple 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just avoid Lemmygrad and hexbear. Those are Cancer

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml was no different back then

[–] Sheeple 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did it? lemmy.ml is still federated with those instances.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I appreciate being federated, it gives me a chance to down vote them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Apparently my instance disables downvoting...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's the only real downside. I just hope user-based ignore/block function for instances instead of just communities would become a thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It already is on Connect? I blocked both instances, so no posts from either show in my feed and comments from users on those instances on other posts appear as "blocked by an instance filter," which you can choose to show it if you want

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I meant in the account, not a third party app.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But then you miss the Olympic level mental gymnastics

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You know they're doping though. Kinda ruins the fun.

[–] Sheeple 7 points 1 year ago

Olympics where everyone participating loses