Slop.

...And you’ll end up with like 3 federated users left which is basically my /all feed now

For some, this would be cause for introspection. For reactionaries, it's just an unfortunate side effect of having to block all of the 'wrong' people.

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.

The memes of production community bans you if they find out you're a ML lmao

Cool cool, nice to see us dbzer0 anarchists are finally being rolled in with the rest of y'all. Once all of liberal Lemmy has self-isolated, recentralized, and started monetizing; maybe then we can finally have some leftist unity "in exile?"

Neither hexbear nor lemmygrad are even federated with .world. I joined .ml because it was federated with both but was not sure I'd miss out on useful tech communities from the largest instance (.world). Hardly see anything worth engaging with there anyway, I think it has actually gotten worse.

Honestly there were always arguments on the internet, but far and away the most peaceful time in my memory was the time of tens of thousands of independent forums and/or websites that profilerated up to ~2010.

You could just like a thing, blindly wander into a community about it, and spend your days, weeks, years talking to similar, friendly people in personable ways. If you got into arguments, mods just banned you for causing ruckus in their quiet corner of the internet. I find the nameless 'talking to the masses' that all social media does is the issue.

Humans thrive on making interpersonal bonds, and to speak to the same person twice online is borderline impossible today. Hexbear probably straddles the middle-upper limit of an enjoyable community size in that you will repeatedly interact with the same people over months or even years. But once you lose that person-person accountability, you inevitably become a pile of ragebait and nothing else.

That's why IRL community groups inevitably have an upper limit before they federate into subgroups - a sea of voices talking over each other doesn't really achieve much of an enjoyable atmosphere, and overall lends itself to sensationalism.

I had a talk about waves of internet culture with my nephew a few years ago. He said, “yeah, remember back in 2017 when meme culture was just a bunch of gore and shock content?” And I told him, “I was seeing a lot of shock content in like 2011. I think it’s more about your algorithm, where you’re hanging out, and how you relate to those spaces, rather than any broader trends about how much gore there is at any given time”. And I could see his wheels turn for a minute until he just said, “well shit”

Maybe someone needs to have a similar conversation with OP if their internet experience is so toxic

Surely nothing toxic about telling people to block multiple whole communities because of identity politics or whatever. The lack of self-awareness holy shit

How to reduce toxicity on Lemmy? Idk, stop recruiting on

EVERYWHERE I go smells like SHIT!

Must be those DAMN TANKIES that keep POOPING in MY pants

they're blocking quokk.au now? damn just one more instance and we have a hexagonal six

I wish these racist, ziontist loving, Republican-raised liberals would just admit they're Trump supporters and shut the fuck up already about their plans for total Fediverse conquest

We get it, you don't want to see a single opinion that would offend your rich daddy's sensibilities which your trust-fund ass pretends not to hold

These motherfuckers actually believe an ideology based on State Department press releases is somehow normal or remotely sane, nothing is more tiresome and revolting than fascists with an identity crisis

"How do you create an echo chamber? People are slightly rude to be when I support genocide."

"I keep decentralizing things to get rid of the people with their annoying 'political opinions', but they keep having them! Clearly I need to block the entire world from my personal view."

Absolutely unhinged take.

but it seems to have gotten so much worse over the last few years.

laughs in Zoey Quinn

I am kind of torn on this issue. On the one hand, yes if you block all political content, instances you might disagree with, then you're going to end up with a very quiet feed.

The Fedi could really use some more casual content. Our media discussions tend to be short and not very deep, but we also don't have a pro-consumerist hype culture. We dont have enough concentration of people from any cities to have vibrant locals communities (not even huge cities like LA or NYC, London, Berlin). Even the tech/programmer communities are pretty anemic in content and discussion.

(I guess there's a fair amount of queer and trans stuff as well, that's good but is in a way the exception that proves the rule.)

Obviously I don't want hype-driven consumer culture, but it does often feel like the only thing we do a lot of around here is politics and memes about politics.

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

The instances they block are the only instances where occasionally, "actual news sources" exist.