Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it's one of the best things I've ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I'd been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I'd blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I'd had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a "meme" implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you're saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell...

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[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It gets better, they also claim bush was a progressive.... But yeah it's just those they hate are the ones that deny reality.

https://lemmy.world/comment/25161572

OpenStars

Conservatives can be progressive too though - e.g. George Bush, the Republican President of the USA prior to Obama.

And speaking of the USA, the party on the “left”, the Democrats, are most definitely liberals, while the party on the “right”, the Republicans, are conservatives. One thing that that means is that for most of modern history, there has been no true “left” party, hence most people inside the USA - and by extension, most people on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, etc. since they got their start and maintain their strongest base in the USA, prior to opening up to an international audience. So to your average Redditor, “left” =~ Democrat = liberal.

And ironically, as horribly incomplete as that statement is, it is still more accurate than what tankies, especially Hexbears, believe. e.g. that Russia, China, and North Korea are somehow “communist”, rather than totalitarian dictators under the guise of democracy and capitalism.

And that is why I am saying: they’re not left at all. They only claim to be, which does not make it true.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

they’re not left at all. They only claim to be, which does not make it true.

wonder-who-thats-for

the way they type makes them sound like a nazi doing a bit with a llm trained on centrist posts

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 19 hours ago

Idk, llm would have better editing skills