Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
It’s not just you
Steve@startrek.website 5 months ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 months ago
lemmy.blahaj.zone? Really?
I mean the other two are authorian apologist idiot instances but blahaj?
Steve@startrek.website 5 months ago
Something about it rubbed me the wrong way
amberSuperMario@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I wonder what that something is? thonk-trans
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
I can see it, 196 gets a little spicy around critical events
skooma_king@lemm.ee 5 months ago
How are you blocking full instances? I’ve been playing wack-a-mole blocking communities. I’m using Voyager on iOS, if that matters.
Summzashi@lemmy.one 5 months ago
Settings > filters & blocks
skooma_king@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Thanks!
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 months ago
Keep in mind that user-level instance blocks are not the same as instance-level defederations. AFAIK, it only blocks the communities. You’ll still see comments and posts from that instance in other communities and that instance will still influence your feed with their votes.
It is better to go to an instance that defederates or to convince your current admin to defederate.
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Th ability to do so was added a while back.
AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 5 months ago
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
And increasingly lemmy.ml, sadly
SARGE@startrek.website 5 months ago
They’re getting there, but so far it’s only a few users that I’ve noticed.
One guy seems to be following me around to attempt mockery.
They’re very much getting to “everyone who isn’t farther left than me is a right-wing nazi” mentality.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
They aren’t even really left. They are super authoritarian.
I blocked them since they spew Russian and Chinese propaganda points and take revisionist stances on Tianman square and deny the Uyghur Genocide.
TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
The term “authoritarian” is so fraught that under these circumstances it might as well just mean “opponent of the United States” or “organized at all”.
The examples you have provided are quite absurd.
Tiananmen Square (which you misspelled) is indeed poorly understood in The West, including the historical conensus that there was no massacre in the square itself. It is, in fact, historical revisionism to suggest otherwise. In addition, Tiananmen Square is just a place, a very popular one to visit that has been the location for all kinda of events. In China, the events are called the June 4 Incident / events. Calling it “Tiananmen Square” is sometimes a sign that a person is not familiar with the history as they are using the common but misleading term that is virtually only used to forward the previously-mentioned historical revisionism to a Western audience that is in no way interested in understanding.
Re: Uyghurs, I would suggest that you read into this much more, as the topic is full of misinformation, think tanks with shady ties, fake universities, charlatans pretending to be experts, literal teenagers treated as satellite photography analysis experts, and really weird NGOs, including pro-Trump ones. One good topic to focus on is calling it a genocide at all and how that came to be the discourse. In particular, what The Newlines Institute is, why they were amplified by the US State Departmwnt, their rationale, and, of course, why none of that is taken seriously outside of a very specific political block. Following their members, funding, etc is actually a pretty interesting rabbit trail to follow. Bird’s eye view, the rhetorical treatment of Uyghurs as the subject of genocide was more or less invented, and this is is why you naturally don’t see math death, destruction, refugees, or forced migrations of the Uyghur population. This does not mean bad things haven’t happened there nor that policies were not hamfisted, but just compare how China treated a series of sectarian knife attacks (education, jobs, vocational training, investment, banning extremist Salafist practices) to how the West treated and treats Muslims (invading and killing millions).
So, anyways, I hope that you can continue your education and engage with these realities in gold faith.
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 months ago
Many people playing “leftist” are this way, sadly. And <insert religion here>, and <insert country name here> as well, but my favorite example is “conservatives”… who despite both the name itself and the claim to want to return to “traditional” values, instead want to radically overthrow everything that has arisen for the past several hundreds of years.
It turns out that it is really, really, really hard to be truly honest with oneself, about whatever it is that we choose to believe.
muzzle@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I mostly agree with you, but that’s the reason why I picked an instance that does not block them: sometimes it is good to see the world from a different point of view. And it’s not like the other Lemmy instances are completely free of propaganda either.
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 5 months ago
If one’s a strict authoritarian, thats a pretty sensible thing to say 🤷♂️
mke@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s at least one interesting fellow in this very thread sharing extremely predictable opinions.
I thought I was annoying when arguing. Still do, but I found someone worse. Doesn’t make me feel better, because it seems I’m sharing a table with them.