They’re something to add to your block list.
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Lumisal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What is lemmy.ml and lemmygrad? I’m just a casual using Voyager
Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
dev_null@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Thanks. I wanted to create a Lemmy account and this one seemed like the the most generic default one, huge user base, ran by the Lemmy devs, all right surely it’s the safest, most non-controversial choice.
Then I see stuff like this.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How to block? And I’m still a bit confused about instances. How do I know which I joined?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
You’re on lemmy.world
You can go to lemmy.world/settings click the blocks tab up top, and then add instances to block in there, in the box marked “Black instance”.
I think lemmy.world has already defederated lemmygrad and hexbear, so you should just need to add lemmy.ml
Lumisal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thank you!
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Instances operated by pro-Russian or pro-BRIC groups that have no interest in dissenting opinion and often spill out into the rest of the fediverse posting anti-western propaganda.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Basically, it’s flat Earth theory but for geopolitics. They believe the exact opposite of what everyone else does so they can have a tight-knit community devoted to being smugly superior to the sheeple.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
That’s a good way of putting it
lennybird@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hexbear falls under this umbrella, right?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Absolutely. Hexbear seems like the most insular and loud one of all. Lemmy.ml can be fairly normal sometimes just because it’s the OG site and gets a lot of general traffic.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They defederated ages ago.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Everyone I Don’t Like is
HitlerAn Evil Foreigner”lil@lemy.lol 7 months ago
I don’t believe lemmy.ml’s are pro russian, at least not in that way.
Hubi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not as bad as Lemmygrad but most News-threads about Russia/China/Ukraine are a total shitshow over there.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
even BRICS are bad now?
PanoptiDon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Does this break the rules of the fediverse?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What rules?
The rules are what each instance operator makes them (outside of breaking laws). It’s up to the other instance operators to defederate from instances that they don’t want direct sharing with for whatever reasons. So if lemmygrad wants to be anti-west, make anti-western posts, comment on current events and insinuate or blame the West for whatever, post trolling comments or fake news, that’s what will happen.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Even breaking laws could fare fine if they’re unimportant enough. A child porn instance would have cops breaking down the server room door, but I’m pretty sure there’s already piracy-friendly instances, and a shoplifting one can’t be far behind.