Obviously, the internet has always been a toxic place, (the phrase “flame war” has been around for decades,) but it seems to have gotten so much worse over the last few years. I used to think decentralization of the internet would fix the worst of it, but Lemmy seems to have gotten worse alongside the rest of internet culture, proving me wrong. How do we fix/improve this culture of toxicity?

Block .ml and don’t engage with .ml users And hexbear and lemmygrad

Shun the toxic people. Block them and don’t look back.

Seriously, block them. They’re still gonna toxic whether you’re there to observe it or not.

Find a well moderated instance that isn’t afraid to show toxic people the door

Block .ml, grad, hexbear, dbzer0, and quokk.au

Block any other instance or person that centers itself around identity politics

Block all the news/politics communities. Just get your news from actual news services. The comment section for most news/politics posts here is worse than an entire garbage dump on fire.And you’ll end up with like 3 federated users left which is basically my /all feed now 😑

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[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I’ve said this before but the main reason I dislike lemmy.world more than any of the other lib instances isn’t even because of their general political views, it’s how controlling they try to be over the rest of the fediverse. You cannot just lifeboat to here from Reddit one day and then try to take over the entire thing.

I know if I, for whatever reason, decided to start my own instance and try to become the main face of the fediverse that it wouldn’t go over well.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 48 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's stuff like that that makes me think the instance is run by actual feds. Their weird obsession with controlling all of Lemmy and trying to create a narrative about the "bad parts" of Lemmy so no one visits those places and learns about opinions beyond the western status quo is exactly what the US state department would want.

[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago

I once joked that they were the United States of the fediverse lol

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago

Piefed was created to further that obsession w control; to remove dependency on lemmy developers.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 13 points 3 days ago

Even have mods dedicated to the usa dem party lines

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 3 days ago

settler mentality