Since the federation the comment sections got so inflammatory. Literally everything gets turned into some political “capitalism bad” or “the west bad” discussion. It made Lemmy very annoying for me to use…
No.
This is how you kill the fediverse. I don’t think people enjoy hopping from instance to instance & eventually they’ll stop altogether.
Fair enough if it the content is illegal, but we shouldn’t defederate just because the content annoys you or you don’t agree with it.
What if it will annoy a big percentage of normal users?
E.g. would you enjoy having exploding-heads content in your feed?
instance hopping should be normal: i have 8 accounts simultaneously open in my Connect app. Also connect allows u to hide comments from filtered (blocked) insntance of ur choice, including hexbear.
But I generally like this instance.
Just block the users that do this, and there will be a instance blocking feature soon too
Personally I chose this instance so I wouldn’t randomly get defederated from other instances and I would have to switch to another instance if this happened.
Why should I play wack-a-mole everytime I like to read comments? Just remove that cesspool all togheter. Do you really benefit from anything on hexbear? Go over there and find a community you would really miss, and then show me. Please.
Also this instance is already blocking things like exploding-heads and lemmygrad
Well as a leftist yes I would miss some communities from them like the news and memes
Nop, I can read lemmygrad posts and comments.
I too would like to be in control whos comments I read and whos not to. So no, pleas do not defederate. If you want it managed for you, beewag would be the place.
Yes. They literally have a huge community dedicated to disrupting other instances: https://hexbear.net/c/the_dunk_tank
Lemmygrad is nothing compared to the shear volume of brigading, spam and bad faith arguments coming from there.
(This reached the front page of Hexbear)
I consider myself to be radical left-wing, but 95% of the content on hexbear is completely useless. It’s an echo-chamber for whiney bitch-ass tanky trolls, powerlessly memeing their lives away and not contributing anything even to their marginalized corner of political discourse.
That being said: I say don’t defederate. They might behave like idiots sometimes, but defederating weakens the network as a whole and the cost is disproportionate to the benefit in this case.
No. There is little enough content on Lemmy, they at least provide some interesting conversations. I’m okay having content from people I maybe disagree with
Ah yes, the interesting conversations of blaming literally everything on capitalism, neoliberalism and/or “the west”… and then insulting you if you disagree. Also less content is better than a lot of mostly shit content…
I haven’t seen any insults. I’ve seen people who couldn’t handle the comments though. I dunno, I think people have just got used to their nice echo chambers and this is the reverberations of the doors opening up. People’s automatic response is “ban them!”
