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…

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      24 hours ago

      Unfortunately too little too late and Biden was too afraid to push it. Politics for far too long has been run on a gentleman’s agreement. That one side has clearly not been honoring.

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        24 hours ago

        When you have a president pushing to jail his opponent it’s a delicate situation which was one of the reasons why it was the most complicated case in the judicial system’s history.

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          23 hours ago

          Under normal circumstances I’d agree. Under these circumstances it was a failure still.