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Exposure to other viewpoints is good. No need to debate. And if you’re on a large instance, you’ll see that. Not everyone thinks alike, there are shades of gray. Discussion is allowed to happen but intolerance isn’t tolerated.

The tankie instances ban anyone for even asking questions politely that they don’t agree with. It’s a total monoculture and I assume they’re mostly still kids, because everything is black and white and can be solved without any nuance at all.

90% of the time it's bigots who are upset that they're getting deplatformed. The other 10% of the time it's the incredibly idealistic or naive. Either way it's a crap argument. You are under no obligation to endure verbal diarrhea, nor is it your responsibility to change the minds of the people spewing it. They shit the bed, they can lie in it.

Normal interactions with normal communities will be plenty of diversity, there's absolutely no reason to engage with or listen to nazis. Right wing politics has mastered brainwashing, it's dangerous to read that shit too often.

Not a good analogy because then blocking the instance is like killing the dog.

They'll certainly bring up an actual good point from time to time, unlike actual fascists.

Mostly though you can negate the majority of their most obnoxious shit takes by blocking users.

But my instance isn't federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear as is so I can get away with that, and I don't see "Genocide is okay if" takes in my feed.

People who say this are generally fine being a part of every other instance that is full of liberals who repeat fascist propaganda verbatim. Seen rather clearly in response to the recent escalations in Gaza.

What fucking kills me is they're like 80% American teenagers who have never even been to Europe or Asia, but simp hard for Russia and China

They're anti US, not necessarily pro Russia. They support Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war because they think Ukraine is a US puppet state because the country wants to align with Western nations, and of course no nation on earth has its own agency and everything is the US's fault. They're pro anything that challenges the US and other liberal countries.

They remind me of a bunch of teenagers trying to be edgy.

They are campists. It's been the bane of leftist parties forever. That's why socialism really got a foothold in Europe via third-way social democracy, because it doesn't feel the need to make tyrants into folk heroes in order to relitigate the cold war

Vatnik.

Do they support Russia or Putin? If they support one, they hate another.

OP is asking which ones to block because he currently is not being harassed. If he was being harassed, he would know which ones to block.

You are missing out on all the sturgeon jokes!

Same here, but every now and then an English source comes through so I keep them available.

Oh mein Gott er kann kein Deutsch lesen grundgütiger wie kann man das nicht können c'est incroyable, non c'est impossible je voudrait penser mais non

I like getting exposed to languages that I'm not fluent in. Sometimes I pick something up or get curious and learn something new from translation. A multilingual internet is a colorful and beautiful place.

It's a nightmare for harassment though, treating all blocking as a sissy snowflake shield renders it essentially useless for circumstances where the other user is really malicious.

In that case having a system like Mastodon's that locks them out of Replying is better than simply covering them up. We can't really rely on Instance admins to block all malicious users or defederate from all malicious platforms so there needs to be a certain level of protection from the user's side.

I do think that Blocking and Restricting (preventing a user from interacting) should be different functions, you block communities and users because you don't want to see them, but you restrict users because they are hostile, malicious, or make bad-faith arguments.

Nah, your right to keep debating ends when someone else decide's they're not a platform for further discussion.

No longer being able to reply to the blocker, and ideally not even being able to see the blocker is the ideal, and both the blocker and the blockee should need to agree to reopen contact for the block to go down.

Like a restraining order, stops the original blocker from raising and lowering it at will as a harassment tactic.

Remember blocking on Reddit? It made it so you couldn't reply to anything in the chain. So if someone different replied to you you wouldn't be able to reply to them even though they aren't who blocked you.

True. The good/bad ratio matters and is very subjective. I guess I have a larger tolerance than most.

unpopular opinion time: hexbear isn't that bad. I've had to block a few communities, but I do that with any instance. I've had to block more on hexbear, but it's not a ton. I've had to block more people on hexbear than other instances, but it's not that bad. I appreciate their different viewpoints. I don't like echo chambers and I learn a lot.

Why do you block lemmygrad but not hexbear??

I believe their problem is the fact the entire concept of the community is adults-who-could-be-mistaken-as-teens. That's the idea I'm getting from the name. It's fair for that to cross a line. I think its a super gross concept, and people are allowed to agree or disagree with that viewpoint.

Said women have every right to do whatever, including doing SW. This is not an individual problem.

The problematic part is people actively searching out and forming communities around pron with women looking as close to a kid as possible. Condemning those guys has absolutely nothing to do with the people in the content and in no way shames them.

It ain't the women at fault, nor the content inherently, it's the context and people fetishizing them in a way they prolly would't be comfortable with in the first place.

News to me, when I took up a stance over there in the form of a comment the other day people barraged my inbox for two days and never mentioned any sort of age verification measures, now I'm blocked. I hope they get audited regularly.

Because otherwise I'll be under the illusion that they don't exist.

If you ever don't tell tankies how much they annoy you, the tankies win.

Guess what. I never saw two chromosomes unless I browsed by r/all. You have an ability to curate what you see, both here and on reddit. Blocking and defederating achieve nothing. Unless of course it's an echo chamber you want to live in.

I know that, I am just saying its mostly not necessary as most of the work has been done for you

And by removing hexbear you remove the other half

Also formula1 is there

Most of it is trash and Lemmy.world becomes a walled garden.

Yes