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Well if you let this continue then the actions of ‘some of their cohort’ end up causing quite a bit of damage! See Europe right now which is dealing with a huge crime wave because of ‘some of their cohort’ and the majority of countries are now anti-immigrant.

Spread of gang violence wrecks Sweden’s peaceful image

Swedish police do not currently map gang members’ nationalities, but research for the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention in 2021 showed young people born in Sweden to two parents from abroad were overrepresented as suspects in murder cases and robberies.

www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67342368

So if you’re pro-immigration then your best bet is to restrict immigration down to countries and cultures that match our values, importing immigrants from Palestine will for example result in the country regressing backwards politically, but you probably think that’s racist so you’re in quite a conundrum!

Can’t support open immigration because that ultimately results in closed borders after increased crime/violence vs Can’t support restricting immigration to countries that share our values because that would make you racist.

Tough times.

btw @Nath@aussie.zone I blocked this instance:

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But this persons posts are still showing up? Shouldn’t they be blocked?

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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Bigots gonna bigot.

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Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

But this persons posts are still showing up? Shouldn’t they be blocked?

The way I understood the Blocked Instances setting to behave, I would have thought so. But as Blaze responded in that Meta thread, what this setting does is suppress that instance’s communities from your feeds - not its users (though there is a separate setting to block individual users that I have employed and can confirm it works as advertised). That seems a bit half-hearted of a feature. Hopefully Lemmy will at least offer you the option of blocking the users as well as the communities in the next release (due “soon”^tm^).

In the interim, the advice in the linked post suggests using an app instead of the main Web UI, I use Boost personally and can see it has a block instance feature. I haven’t played with it, though.

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- Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Dang! Thanks for the help though :)
  
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princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Can’t imagine any good reason you decided to block the largest queer instance on Lemmy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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- Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Well I mean your admin provided a pretty good reason below, couldn’t argue the point so just screamed racist!!! and probably raged in their chair they couldn’t ban me
  
  This video never gets old, made 6 years old and still relevant as ever
  
  youtu.be/0lcYP_zOOXg?t=114
  
  I’m a centre-left labor voter irl who voted in favour of tackling climate change, 50c public transport and free school lunches, but when I come here apparently i’m hitler
  
  Reality is that Mastodon/fediverse is at trump levels of echo chamber except with left wing progressives, and in the case of lemmy.ml … left wing regressives
  
  my banned account on Mastodon for climate change denialism despite having solar panels, solar battery, ev a full electric house and i’ve used ecosia for years now shows how absurd this place can be if you don’t join in the circlejerk
  
  i’m actually surprised i haven’t been banned, aussie.zone is cool, hopefully more people come over
  
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