• I had this going on with hexbear for the longest time. It was a mix of my client not supporting instance bans, me not being willing to change clients, and a remaining shred of faith in humanity that - surely - there must be some good people on the site with something of value to add.

    In the end, I ended up deciding that the noise to Signal ratio was so high, it wasn’t worth the time filtering through the steam of mental fecal matter to interact with the rare sane person; I switched clients, blocked the instance, and am far more happy.

    Some instances simply aren’t worth losing brain cells for the relatively few people of value on them. It’s a sledgehammer tool, and I’ve used it only twice, but in both cases it’s been a positive quality-of-life feature.

    • ᵀʰᵉʳᵃᵖʸᴳᵃʳʸOP
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      I’ve never even gotten to experience what everyone talks about regarding hexbear bc my instance is defederated from them. I guess it’s a good thing though lol

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    Ła Venexia daxà senpre gà probleme da brente, anpò con ła scaldada global i pare roba xornaliera, no so de ła sità (o stesso de ła Europa!) ma me insusto migołìn.

    …sorry for the others, I couldn’t help it. Anyway:

    The best part of LW is that it’s a gate to the Fediverse, welcoming everyone from Reddit.
    And the worst part of LW is that it’s a gate to the Fediverse, welcoming everyone from Reddit.

    As such I can relate to the OP. There’s a lot of crap coming from that instance, but also users and content worth interacting with.

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      Gàstu scrito quéło in venesian parché chi che no parla ła lengua no lo pol tradur? Because I had a bitch of a time lol.

      You make a good point!

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        Gàstu scrito quéło in venesian parché chi che no parla ła lengua no lo pol tradur?

        Daseno go scrito in venetan par estro. I almost never have the opportunity to use the language, might as well use it when it’s relevant. If native speakers find it here, I hope that they feel at home. (Minus the flooding… or actually with the flooding, swap “Adriatic” with “Lemmy.World” and here you go.)

        Because I had a bitch of a time lol.

        Sorry!

        Might as well translate the whole thing for the others:
        • [Me] Venice always had problems with flooding, but with the global warming they look like a daily thing, I’m not from the city (or even from Europe!) but it worries/annoys (can’t translate it well) me a bit.
        • [You] Have you written it in Venetian so the ones who don’t speak the language can’t translate it?
        • [Me] Seriously, I wrote it in Venetian in a whim. [insert stuff already in English]
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    Genuinely blocking the bad .world made lemmy not ‘just reddit’ and thus so much better.

    If I wanted far right wing corporate sponsored viewpoints like “genocide is necessary so we can survive” I would just make another reddit account.

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      I just had to block that whole instance as well, especially because the same people mod all the subs. They literally delete me comments for being “uncivil,” though I was literally just repeating back what was said to me. Those comments were allowed to stay, of course. The mod was supposedly generous for not banning me. It’s cool, bro, I’ll ban myself.