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Great thing about Lemmy is that I can block all instances from lemmy.ml.
How do I block .ml results?
Are there other servers which amplify problematic content?
So the Tankie Triad is:
Edit: ~~The trouble is that, as far as I know, there's currently no way as a user to block an entire instance. You can play whack-a-/C and block communities as you bump into them. The other option is to look for instances that have de-federated from these instances, and make a new account on one of those instances.~~
As @Samskara@sh.itjust.works pointed out, instance blocking is possible:
There's a lot more than the 3 listed above, the ones I listed are militant in their belief that Russia and China are Marxist-Leninist utopias. There's some communities and users across all the instances that are problematic. If you see something you don't like, block the user or community.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to block all users of an instance though unfortunately. You can still see posts and comments they make on other instances
Whack-a-mole sadly, but I will say that not every user on an instance you don't want to interact with is necessarily going to be promoting content that you find objectionable.
True, but those users on the Big Three are fairly reputable for being contentious. So much so that merely blocking Hexbear alone will improve someone's experience on the Fediverse by ~90%, and then if you are able to block Lemmy.ml (most people using Lemmy cannot, not truly) then that improves it by a still further 90%.
Put another way, yes it blocks too much - that much is sadly true - however when the vast majority of the most batshit insane comments that one sees across the entire Fediverse comes from a user on one of the Big Three instances, then rather than leave the Fediverse entirely to get away from such, it makes a helluva lot of sense to just block users from those instances (which again, most people on Lemmy really can't do, without going to extreme measures).
It's like email spam: what legitimate content are you willing to give up in order to block the vast majority of incoming stuff that you don't want to see? There's enough leftover after blocking it out, at least for me and many others say the same. It does kinda suck for users on those instances, but like... at this point it's very well known, and they've made their choice, so now all that remains is for me to make mine, and my preferences - to avoid nonconsensual insanity thrown at me relentlessly from an instance that not only fails to discourage such but sometimes actively encourages it - should be able to matter too!