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Just checked instances after the hack and noticed that lemmy.world is federated with all of the Lemmygrads. Was it always?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure they always were. I know when I was using lemmy.world I blocked a lot of lemmygrad communities.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's really really hard to believe those people are being honest.

Every post I saw before I blocked them was 100% what rightwingers believe "libruls" believe.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm confused as to what you're referring to, lemmygrad? Nah I'm pretty sure those are just tankies and tankies are as I understand it basically what rightwingers think everyone left of Ronald Reagan is. Like tankies aren't just commies, they're fucking stalinists.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Stalinists” who support a radical right wing hyper capitalist Christian oil tycoon oligarchy with colonist ambitions, and endless wars of conquest. They’re just edgy anti westerners with no real policy ideology.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s really really hard to believe those people are being honest.

The delusion is strong with tankies. It's really quite interesting to observe, particularly when big events happen (ex: When Russia was repelled from Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson). One will see a refocusing happening over the course of a few days, then the same conclusions are reached but using completely different (often contradictory) logic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a common feature of any demographic that is convinced of their moral superiority. Once you've accepted that you and your leaders are on the side of justice and are presented a designated enemy, you cease having to look inward. Progress requires acknowledging that you are operating inside of a flawed system, and that you have to work with people from other systems who acknowledge their own flaws.

Tangent: "Enlightened centrists" acknowledge the flaws of both sides of an argument while failing to acknowledge that both sides have to play fair.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if Lemmy has an equivalent, but in Kbin you can block a whole instance as a user. For example, I went to https://kbin.social/d/lemmygrad.ml and in the upper right corner in the "DOMAIN" box there's a standard block button. I expect it means I will not see any comments or posts that come from anyone on lemmygrad.ml.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The further increased customizability of kbin has been tugging at my curiosity for weeks, but I haven’t taken the dive yet. You might have finally convinced me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's that kind of thing that made me take the plunge with Kbin - it's a lot easier to filter out things you're not interested in.

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