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I hope people do not do that and take into account this campaign against lemmy.ml. I am aware of the accusations against the admins of this instance, but I practically never see here this kind of brigading, campaigning against whole instances like lemmy.world. Sure, I myself did make a bad comment or two about lemmy.world out of >800 comments, but that's normal. I think the fair thing to do, is to respond in the same scale (i. e. blocking specific users) instead of going all ballistic with instance blocks.
I'd also like an option to just block/hide the instance part of user names. I don't like what this bit of information is doing to discussions in Lemmy.
You could also just move instances if you don't want to be blocked. Hexbear, and ML are hot spots for the worst kind of people.
I know I can. Being blocked is something I do not have any issues with. My comment was merely my point of view. If someone is being actively bothered by the admins of the instance I'm in, it's completely fair to block it. However, to block whole instances for ideological differences is kind of immature.
Cool. That's fine that you don't like it. However people have a right to not see what they don't want to see. If they decide that means it's lemmy.ml, then that's their right.
Just like I have a right to not peer with lemmy.ml if I didn't want to.
Hell I have a hard block on ALL Russian and Chinese IP addresses. Not because I have something against the people. But I just don't want to deal with the headache of accepting traffic from those countries.
Just because some (or even a majority) of the people on lemmy.ml are fine to interact with doesn't mean that there isn't contention from other users and admins on that instance.
I think we agree on everything. You do you.
it's not just random users, the mods of larger communities like !worldnews@lemmy.ml will delete your comments and ban you simply for disagreeing with them.
For this, some people proposed to move the community from one instance to another. Now, it seems to me like the incentive to comment on instances ideologically biased for people who cares about the voting system is basically to troll the opposing instance. Which leads to this petty battle that I will ignore from now on.
EDIT: It's also interesting to note that lemmy.ml is not like any other instance. In fact, it would be beneficial to not have big communities here. My account is here because it's an old account, but lemmy.ml should be more like a "testing" instance, and they probably shouldn't be signing up more people. The admins and devs acknowledge this from time to time. So, I guess everyone wins with this.