I’m done, I’ve been banned for expressing a different opinion (without insulting or personally attacking anyone), I’ve been accused of evading a ban with multiple accounts (this is my only account I’ve ever had on any lemmy instance), I’ve had people selectively ignore my comments and accuse me of things which I never said, and I’ve had people ignore valid criticisms and keep attacking me.

Reddit has many issues with trolls, one-sided discussion, and just general bullshit, but many Lemmy instances are way worse. The newfound freedom of Lemmy has attracted many extremists, from both sides, and many of them are moderators, who are more than happy to remove any contrarian opinions. This results in discussions being echo chambers

  • Kedly@lemm.ee
    6·
    10 months ago

    Instance blocking exists now, I used to ban all hexbear communities when I saw them pop up, but now I just have a blanket ban on anything hexbear, so I dont need to do that anymore

    • viking@infosec.pub
      21·
      10 months ago

      Hexbear and lemmigrad. And I’m reaching the point of blocking lemmy.ml as well, if it wasn’t for a few rare communities.

      • Kedly@lemm.ee
        2·
        10 months ago

        I’m on lemm.ee on browser, I’m an old fart who refuses to download apps when it can be done over the internet

        • 50_centavos@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          I’m not even that old (no offense) and I do that too. I’ll use apps if it doesn’t collect any data, and preferably FOSS, like Voyager. Anyways, thanks for the tip, I’ll log in on browser for my instance blocking needs.

          Edit: jk, according to another comment, it’s not available on lemmy.world at the moment. Soon though.