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…

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      4 hours ago

      They win half the time.

      and true to form even when they win they manage to be losers. not satisfied with just being losers, their ‘foreign policy’ is genocidal

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 hours ago

        Their support of Israel was horrible but now that genocide has gotten worse and expanded to other countries and the Russians have stepped up their genocide of Ukraine so the world is worse off.

        • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          4 hours ago

          they supported a genocide and managed to do absolutely nothing about things like healthcare or reigning in executive power and now it’s all blown up in their faces

          the reason inflation/affordability was even an issue that Trump could reference stems from their genocidal and feckless ‘foreign policy’. Energy prices would not have been nearly as high if they had found a way to de-escalate with russia and reigned in israel. instead we’re on the path to world war 3 and you’re insisting we keep voting for those fucking losers

          • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            4 hours ago

            Russia escalated with the world when they invaded Ukraine that isn’t the democrats fault.

            Inflation is/was a world wide problem that was getting under control under Biden.

            The biggest problem america faces today is a good two thirds of its population is so far removed from reality that there is no way to reach them anymore.

            • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              4 hours ago

              The biggest problem america faces today is a good two thirds of its population is so far removed from reality that there is no way to reach them anymore.

              you’re telling me, I don’t think I can reach you and you’re extremely removed from reality

                • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  3 hours ago

                  no, i’m not; I’m saying the democrats are genocidal losers who you’re emotionally invested in making excuses for

                  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    ·
                    3 hours ago

                    the reason inflation/affordability was even an issue that Trump could reference stems from their genocidal and feckless ‘foreign policy’. Energy prices would not have been nearly as high if they had found a way to de-escalate with russia and reigned in israel. instead we’re on the path to world war 3 and you’re insisting we keep voting for those fucking losers

                    Two comments ago in case you forgot.