I swear, we need instance tagging so that people can tag their instances as “right-leaning”, “left-leaning”, or “moderate” and let users just pre-emptively block wide swaths of the fediverse for themselves.
The worst thing you can do is block people because of their leanings. That is how you get echo chambers. Of course many extremeists on both sides need to be blocked, just make sure you block them on your side too.
One of the best things that you can do for your mental health is to excise negative influences in your life. I’m a fence sitter, so not much blocking to do on our side.
If you don’t want an echo chamber, maybe you should start chatting with homeless or mentally ill people on the streets instead of living high-and-mighty on the internet.
Language would be a great option, too. I find all the non-English posts interesting in a puzzle sort of way, but honestly I don’t need them.
I find my process for tailoring Lemmy to be the opposite of mine for Reddit. Reddit, I compiled a list of communities I was actively interested in and avoided /all entirely. Here, I’m always on All, and would rather just narrow down what “all” means.
I am in the same boat - Lemmy is like filtering down /all, which is nice for discovering new things, but in Reddit it is pretty nice to just accumulate things as you discover them and be spared the sometimes painful noise.
Lol yeah, I have to block individual hexbear users whenever I find a thread where the instance hasn’t defederated from them yet. I’d love to be able to block all hexbear and lemmy.ml users
Oh is that very recent? I think I’ve been using the instance block feature that my app has. Which blocks me from seeing any of their posts, but I still see them show up in comment threads. I’ll look into this later, would love to be rid of them entirely
If it is, you should be able to add servers to the blocklist in account settings. If you are using an app or client which doesn’t implement instance blocking, you may have to do this in the webUI In a browser, but once you do the block will work in any client.
I used to use Memmy before development stopped. I found Voyager had all the features/UI that I wanted and used that for a while. Recently I’ve started trying Arctic - it’s similar to Voyager but has a few UI tweaks I prefer.
Edit: oh and both of these apps support instance blocking
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