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browsing through All has so much pro-fascist posts coming from lemmygrad that it drowns out all the other instances. I'm surprised they're even federated by default but we should have an option to block instances from All if lemmy is deadset on federating with them just because they are fascists with a red and yellow flag...

(before the Tankies start posting about how they aren't pro-fascism "Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy" which all describe the Z movement in Russia they gleefully support in multiple posts)

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[–] YouWillNeverBeAWoman@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Even though I don't particularly like or agree with the attitude or points of lemmygrad users, I still think there should be no blocking/defederation on instance level.

IMHO it's a fundamental design flaw of lemmy, that the instance administrators have the ability to prevent their users from accessing content from certain other instances just because of their different (political/ideological) orientation. Being exposed to other opinions, even though you don't like or agree with them, is very important. Yet this seems to become an increasingly rare phenomenon. Even if an instance doesn't want to promote the posts of another, the users should still be able to decide on their own, which community to subscribe or block. I'd love to see more features for that.

From reading the comments in this or other threads, I can see that it wont take long until lemmy will go the same echo chambered and biased way reddit went and ultimately this will be its demise. Alienating everyone who questions the current development with "Just go somewhere else" or "Get lost and host your own instance" is certainly the best way to go for ensuring only the right people stay for the infinite circle jerk...

[–] nxlemmy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

sounds like a great way to have lemmy overun with spam and fascist propaganda...

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We get enough of that from you

[–] Supermuff@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Catradora_Stalinism@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I prefer "Marxist Leninist". The Stalinist is more of a meme. And really? Stalin was pro-fascism? How do you people live past the age of 5 while being this incompetent at thinking.

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