Why don’t you just join communities you like and block the ones you really dislike? Reddit was crawling with propaganda you couldn’t escape.
Because I want the fediverse to succeed, not become another failed platform drowning in extremism like Voat.
The fediverse will succeed or fail because of one’s ability to choose with whom they associate. Voat was just as centralized as Reddit, except its whole point was to invite the alt-right with a freeze peach dog whistle.
We can label the devs authoritarian if we want, but what they’ve built is inherently liberating.
I can handle the blocking, that’s something I can control. what I can’t control is the same link being posted on multiple instances that just gets annoying to scroll through.
Recently Google announced Android 14, now all the technology, android, google related communities start posting the same link to the announcement along with the commentary by tech blogs and it repeats 10s of times in the feed.
I follow multiple tech subs across multiple instances for broader coverage but if the news is popular, it’s on every one of them.
To be fair, is that radically different from Reddit? Major news is also repeated in all relevant subreddits there.
It’s not overwhelming, but I see occasional “eruptions” of Tankies and their ilk on posts and in communities where you wouldn’t expect to see them. Maybe just an organic thing where they see each other coming out of their closets and decide to pile on when they get the chance, but still kind of annoying and not something that’s easily preemptively blocked.
That said, this is hardly unique to the Fediverse. There’s stuff like that in social media in general, the Fediverse just happens to have that particular flavor for reasons of historical happenstance.
They tend to come from the same instances, so it’s pretty easy to block actually, especially after the next Lemmy update comes out. Block hexbear and Lemmygrad and you already got almost all of them. You can do that with certain mobile apps.
To be honest, I see more shit about people shitting on those instances than I do of the actual instances themselves, let alone the bad parts of those instances.
I feel like I can’t escape it, even if I block the instances. Because other instances will make meme posts like “look at how bad those guys are!”
Just…shut…up
