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Hot take: none. Let information flow free. Take it with the good and the bad. Don't lock yourself in an echo chamber.
- i never understood this take. echo chambers aren't inherently bad; forced debates are never good. communities are supposed to be places you go to feel comfortable not where you'd forced to debate or turn anything into an argument.
  
  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.
- Hot take indeed.
  If the dog shits on the floor you don't just start walking around it, you clean the floor.
  
  Not a good analogy because then blocking the instance is like killing the dog.
- yes I need to see the fascists masquerading as leftists otherwise I would be living in an echo chamber....
  
  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.
- Not so hot take: My time is finite, why force myself to see shitty facebook memes, dog pictures, crusty "battlestations", etc.?
- Hexbear kind of pissed me off for a week. But I kind of like how nakedly transparent they are. Now, whenever I come across one of those threads, I see where its coming from and I relax. They're just pro-russia regardless of if it makes sense. I don't know what the Murica equivalent of Russia is, but they're that
  
  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.
- Would you say the same when someone is harassing you? Or how about if they were Nazis? Because keep in mind OP is just blocking them and not removing them from all of lemmy.
  
  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.
- I can't read German or french
  
  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.
- That'd be fine if the tankie takes had any value to them. The only value they've added to me is showing me why real world communism has always ended up the way it has. And now I've learned that lesson, so theres no further value
- I have no need for those weird anime fan clubs. Like that chainsaw shit. Or holo-whatever
- I disagree, I would love to block NSFW instances, and I'm grateful to the users that voluntarily post in there. For me Lemmy is too searchable for me to get into those luxuries.
- My hot take is: Depending on the individual, this may be a healthy and responsible thing to do. The outrage cycle that was established in commercial social media to "drive engagement" is very bad for our meat computers (shown in multiple studies). It is much healthier and more productive, at times, to block users, communities, and potentially instances (removing this ability, and forcing me to use their algorithm for sorting, is why I left Reddit, in addition to the harm caused to disabled communities).
- Your instance is one of the most oppressive regarding that...
- This was the attitude I admired on reddit, until it got overrun by Nazis.
  I was wrong.

Fuckin' hilarious how quick tankies become obsessed with avoiding echo chambers when on their own communities they have a ban policy of "anything to the right of unironically calling Stalin Daddy."
To actually answer the question, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear will remove most of the redfash content, but you'll still need to be vigilant for individual users to block. Also, blocking users doesn't prevent them from posting on your shit, just stops you from being notified or being able to see it, AFAIK Boost doesn't have defederation for individual users so you'd need to do that over browser.
This comment brought to you by the absolute right to curate who is in your social orbit, same as in real life ya platform obsessed whingers.
- I'm downvoting you for not knowing the difference between communists and tankies.
  And I'm neither.
  
  Alot of things are a "cancer" on lemmy in my opinion.
  My opinion on the subject is
  I'm personally a believer in freedom of speech so If these extreme left wing folk want go go off galbanting about all that shite that's all fine n dandy prehaps lemmy.world may benefit from being more pro freedom of speech prehaps not that's not for me to decide it's upto the instance owner
- Also, blocking users doesn't prevent them from posting on your shit,
  Good... On a forum based platform it's better to not restrict people's ability to respond to things, as it can help combat people's ability to block those arguing with them right after making easily counterable points to prevent decent comebacks
  
  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.

- Lemmy.ml is somewhat more neutral. In Lemmygrad you can sometimes have a discussion, but you will probably be downvoted. Hexbear is just toxic, it's like Lemmygrad but for 14 year olds.
  
  Lemmygrad and Lemmyml are run by the same insane people...
  
  They're all radioactive shitholes. There is no "lesser evil", it's all hypocrisy and willful ignorance in those circles.
  
  Lemmy.ml has several solid communities, including the largest AskLemmy community. Their top 20 largest communities are all pretty mainstream and don't really see the kind of posts/comments that make people wary of Lemmygrad or Hexbear.
  
  I've had multiple bans from Lemmy.ml, they are anything but neutral. The best way to cop a ban is to make a comment arguing with their point of view that people actually agree with, they hate that.
  They're also some of the most insufferable people on the Internet.
- Not even remotely close to 2/3, and it's the whiney and annoying chunk anyway. I don't want to "not engage", I want them out of my feed.
  
  seconded. lemmy.ml has afaik the biggest interesing communities for FOSS, privacy, Memes, etc.
  
  It's not, but even if it was that would mean 2/3ds of lemmy is full of licking authoritarian boots and genocide denial, so I'm fine with not seeing that.
- Add ani.social too IMO.

I don't block instances. I block communities and users. An instance is too large a group of people. They're not a monolith. Some people on hexbear are garbage and some are not. Some topics encourage jerks, some do not.
- At a point the garbage to quality ratio gets too high to do that. Yeah, I'm sure some decent folks get blocked when you block a whole instance, but there's plenty of other people in non shithole instances to more than make up for it. I just use whichever method is most efficient at cleaning up my feed at the time.
  
  True. The good/bad ratio matters and is very subjective. I guess I have a larger tolerance than most.
- Hexbear say what?
  
  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.
- Thats what a hexbear would say...

Lemmygrad.ml
- The most correct answer possible.
  I might switch front ends just for this feature.
  I'll never block hexbear tho <3 luv my spicey leftie friendos
  (Even though they more often than not seem to hate my guts XD)
  
  Why do you block lemmygrad but not hexbear??

If you have to ask which ones, it's obviously not enough of an issue for you to notice.
Say NO to echochambers.
- All the tankies came out of the woodwork butthurt about this.
  Fuck fascists, including tankies.

Isreal Palestine threads are also great for finding users to block. Reeeaaallly petty and vain way to use a decades long humanitarian tragedy, but I personally dont want to listen to the opinions of anyone who'd celebrate violence and horror of that level

All of them :)

You should block FauxBait@lemmynsfw.com among other child fetish communities.
- Curiosity took me so I checked it out. I just see petite adult women? Literally every single post has 18 USC 2257 compliant age verification in the main body and it's listed as a rule on the sidebar that it must be included.
  I'm all for a fuck literally any child fetishization. But they seem to be very clearly ensuring that there's no children. you can't seriously be saying that any adult female with a petite body should be seen as shameful and equated to a child?
  
  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.
- Shout-out to my instance for defederating with them, makes that job a lot easier

- I got banned by saying people should vote for the least fascist candidate...
  
  In a first-past-the-post election you should vote against the most dangerous candidate (such as the most fascist or autocratic candidate) by voting for the other major party (there will generally only be two.)
  This will only slow the advance of plutocratic subterfuge, so you want to get involved with efforts that include election reform to something more democratic like ranked choice.
  I'm nerding again.

I tend to avoid blocking communities and people on social media as I don't want to create myself an echo chamber. On other social media, such as x/twitter, I only block folk who are directly abusive to myself.
- There is nothing wrong with protecting your sanity. Why would you want to be exposed to vile nonsense, you're not going to read breitbart forums in your spare time are you? Like... You're the only one looking out for you online. The platforms are just trying to turn your participation into profit.
  
  Because otherwise I'll be under the illusion that they don't exist.
- While I generally STRONGLY agree with this sentiment there are some things that I either find too repulsive or offensive to want to see on my feed. People calling for the death of politicians, or insisting that everyone other than them is intellectually inferior, or just the general usage of derogatory terms... yeah I don't need to be angry :D
  ETA: it also felt like there was way too much Russian and Chinese propaganda on a lot of those. As an American that gave me the ick

How cringe can they be if you have to ask for an instance instead of just noticing it yourself?
- Just wants to block an instance to feel powerful.
  
  If you ever don't tell tankies how much they annoy you, the tankies win.

- "You deserve Trump because you blocked me on Lemmy!!"
  
  I swear sometimes this platforms unites Twitter and Reddit behaviour in an unholy mix
- No one asked you to scream loudly "I am a tankie piece of shit" but you did it anyway
- Have I perhaps hit a nerve with you?
- Not being a tankie doesn't make you a lib.
  
  According to tankies, Donald Trump is a liberal. They are prepared to die on that hill.
- Aren't you honestly doing the same?
  
  They think they're on some vanguard of a revolution posting memes. It's pretty funny
  
  Shhh. That doesn’t play into their angry narrative.
- This is literally the tankie way.
- Nazi Bar Lemmy World.. oof hot take. We were the first to defederate with exploding-heads.com (when they were still online). But we're not keen on tankies either, which made you very mad and you got banned :(
- As a tankie, who should you vote for in the 2025 election?
  
  let's see
  stans russia
  believes the state should be politicized and use force to suppress opposition
  protectionist
  anti-globalist
  authoritarian
  likes strongmen leaders
  looks at candidate field

Holy duck! Lemmy has become r/conservative.
I'm a leftie and can't stand tankies, but lemmy is becoming a really intolerant place. On reddit we were all united against u/spez no matter our other disagreements. Here, after only a few months we're talking about blocking instances and communities instead of just joining and viewing the ones that Interest us...
Perhaps it's time to let this experiment run its course.
- Or maybe, just maybe, I grew tired of seeing genocide apologia and the defence of authoritarian governments in my feed.
- Mate I've only been here like a week and I can promise you that most people here are left-wing
  Edit: reddit was united with everyone hating each other lmao
- I just want a news feed that doesnt constantly anger me and convince me to argue. I'd wanted to block TwoXChromosomes on reddit forever because I wasnt its target audience and got nothing out of it. So I'm personally enjoying actually getting some control over my echo chamber for once
  Edit: Also, nuanced takes I disagree with? I dont block those. Its the batshit/extremist ones that I block, I dont feel they are really adding much to my life anyways
  
  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.
- The mods of a certain pair of tankie instances a few months ago were talking about taking over all other instances of Lemmy while the userbases became increasingly hostile towards users who disagreed with the idea that Stalin/Lenin did nothing wrong and that China is a perfect country who can do no wrong and has never done anything bad.
  People have the right to not be harassed and take action to prevent said harassment.
- Local Lemmer Upset Israel-Palestine Conflict More Divisive Than Social Media CEO

Wow, the comments are really turning into a dumpster fire.
My hot take is not to block instances because you can't report what you can't see
- Yeah, I wasn't expecting this to blow up as much as it did lmao

- The "I won't condemn Russias invasion just deflect to Ukrainian Nazis" and "uyghur re-education isn't happening" is wild to see.
  I'm not blocking any communities but if I were that might be the kind of things I would
  
  Lemmygrad.ml is full of Putin appologists. Some of them are from hexabear.
  The oh yeah, what about Minsk Agreements that Ukraine broke?! is also a wild ride on misinfo as well. Russia agreed to pull out forces out of Ukraine borders. Guess how it went.
- The ones justifying genocides and wars from dictators.
  You can be extreme left and still not be a tankie.
  
  I assumed once one got extreme enough left they were anti-hierarchical and bound to principle
  It's difficult to be that and tankie at the same time.
  I'm but a poli-sci amateur so I may be talking out my ass.
  
  you can be social democrat left, you can be anarchist left, hell you can even be communalist hivemind left!
- Don't know how accurate this is, but I've always thought they were hard left authoritarians
- Tankies are people that defend or deny the shitty things done by ML states. People can appreciate some of Lenin's ideas, but not defend the states inspired by his ideology. The Bolsheviks under Lenin set the groundwork for Stalin's reign, with many of Stalin's terrible practices being inspired by things Lenin did. Lenin crushed opposition and centralized power while he was in charge, with Stalin doing what Lenin demonstrated to be acceptable behavior for their movement. When you reject the results of democratic processes to gain power, don't be surprised when your successor does the same. One can agree with many of Lenin's ideas, so long as they recognize the weaknesses.
  
  I wish we had more people like you on the left
- You can easily advocate for the overthrow of the government without defending terrible shit. This sort of argument stinks like the people who claim critical support for Hamas. The idea that you must stand one genocidal team is bullshit. You can take a principled position.
- They're conservatives. They demand a hierarchy where your betters are unquestionable and those below you are subservient. They promote this using the language of leftists, and the contradictions do not bother them, because words are just how you perform loyalty.
  Right-wing politics are only the most blatant and fitting expression of that worldview. This tribalism is humanity's default. Reasoned argument is a learned behavior - and some people visibly are not doing that.
  Reality is a team sport, to some people. In their minds: things are good because good people do them. And their people must be good people, because who'd want to be bad people?
- Tankies are people who fill a jug with piss and empty it into a pickup drivers gas tank
- It depends on who is using it more than anything. In many respects it says more about the user than who it is directed at.
  It runs the gambit in how its used on Lemmy.

Via browser, add '/instances' to the URL of your instance. It will tell you what you can reach and what is already blocked
- You as a user cant block instances on lemmy itself right now
  
  I know that, I am just saying its mostly not necessary as most of the work has been done for you

Honestly, on .world I never see any except for users on the actual posts, so block whatever they're blocking.

- WELL WELL WELL.... WELCOME BACK

tankie sound pretty cute tbh

Yesterday I blocked politics, worldnews, and similar. Feed was becoming nasty, depressing, everyone arguing, complaining, criticizing, trolls, strawmen. Literally people saying it all sucks, nothing matters, everybody's a liar, there is no point, why bother...
Since blocking, way better experience on lemmy.
- I hate having to choose between being informed and being depressed

All of them :)

Yippee

I would suggest some, but I'm pretty controversial and no one likes that
- .ml is federated with hexbear, so I'd suggest blocking them. I find them pretty infuriating.