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Welcome and I hope you enjoy interacting in this space!
One thing to note is that communities across the instances (lemmy.ml being an instance) will have varying content and vibe, and may differ from what you might expect of an instance. So if you're selective with the communities you subscribe to and typically only scroll through your Subscribed front page, filtering out lemmy.ml might not be necessary.
It's not natively supported in Lemmy yet but lots of third party apps can. If you're on Android Sync and Connect both support it.
You're not wrong about the tankie thing, I'd say it's the major conflict in the "threadiverse" right now.
As you can see, I'm on lemmy.ml on this account. The moderation of the server is definitely weird. Since it is the flagship server there's more diversity of thought than you would expect.
If you want to avoid the tankie trolling and brigading the instances you want to block are lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net
I am generally of pretty radical political leanings but holy shit hexbear is stupid.
Taking frustrations with the monsterous inequity and suffering of the current USA lead military hegemony to such a useless extreme that everyone who opposes the usa is an angle and anything that remotely aligns with the interests of the usa must be unredeemable evil.
Yeah, their whole schtick is pretty annoying
I'm using a desktop web browser.
How would I block those instances?
Beehaw is already defederated from both.
Better than awesome! I've got so many nice responses. My impression of Lemmy is changing quickly! Thank you.
if you have uBlock Origin set up you can adapt my filters: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1633853
Something along the lines of this should work for you:
beehaw.org##.person-listing[title$="@lemmygrad.ml"]:upward(:is(.post-listing, .comment))
beehaw.org##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title$="@lemmygrad.ml"])
beehaw.org##.person-listing[title$="@hexbear.net"]:upward(:is(.post-listing, .comment))
beehaw.org##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title$="@hexbear.net"])
edit: beehaw seems to have defederated both already, so you don't need to do anything to block those two instances.
About a year or two ago I learned how to make custom Ublock filters for an old web board I use. No easy task, so I really appreciate this. Thank you!
So both of
are alternative web front ends to lemmy. The former is more desktop oriented. I don't think Voyager supports it yet but they update at a breakneck pace.
Can I use either of those with my BeeHaw account?
I joined BeeHaw because I don't like downvoting and content ranking.
Thanks for the URLs.
Yes! They should work with any Lemmy instance (including beehaw)
It sounds like you joined the right server, beehaw is generally considered the friendliest and best moderated server on here
The reception I am getting here is the nicest I've gotten since I left Reddit to try other platforms. It is quickly changing my impression of Lemmy.
Thank you!
Wow! Alexandrite.App is MUCH nicer! Thanks for the tip!
You're welcome! The explosion of great alternative frontends is one of my favorite things
You’re not wrong about the tankie thing, I’d say it’s the major conflict in the “threadiverse” right now.
That is GOOD to hear. I came across a post on Reddit about the founder a few months ago. I posted about it on my Mastodon account and got some crap from some guy about it, but that was about it aside from apathetic responses. I got the impression nobody cared.
Thanks for the very helpful information.
This is the nicest reception I've gotten on any platform since Reddit diaspora.
Fediverse people can be... territorial. I try to counteract it where I can, especially for newcomers. Welcome and you're welcome!
I’m not sure if it can block entire instances, but Voyager supports blocking communities. If you’ve used Apollo, it’s pretty much that as a web app
Thanks, but I am a desktop web browser user.
As @[email protected] said, use https://alexandrite.app/ . It's a really good desktop interface to lemmy.
Indeed!
I am using it now. Thanks for the tip!
Thank you!