1 yr. ago • 100%

Hello Beehaw - New User.

Hey there,

I'm a refugee from Squabbles/Squablr.co.

I didn't care for the recent changes to the TOS nor the "free speech site" dog whistle announcement.

I really liked the lack of downvoting there, so someone suggested Beehaw.

I've been slow to give Lemmy a try. I read that the founder developer and current owner of Lemmy.ML is a "tankie" - a European communist extremist.

Is it possible with my Beehaw account to filter lemmy.ml out and is it something I want to do?

I'm not familiar with subject driven fediverse social media yet.

Happy weekend to all

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It's not natively supported in Lemmy yet but lots of third party apps can. If you're on Android Sync and Connect both support it.

You're not wrong about the tankie thing, I'd say it's the major conflict in the "threadiverse" right now.

As you can see, I'm on lemmy.ml on this account. The moderation of the server is definitely weird. Since it is the flagship server there's more diversity of thought than you would expect.

If you want to avoid the tankie trolling and brigading the instances you want to block are lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net

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- I am generally of pretty radical political leanings but holy shit hexbear is stupid.
  
  Taking frustrations with the monsterous inequity and suffering of the current USA lead military hegemony to such a useless extreme that everyone who opposes the usa is an angle and anything that remotely aligns with the interests of the usa must be unredeemable evil.
  
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  Yeah, their whole schtick is pretty annoying
  
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- I'm using a desktop web browser.
  
  How would I block those instances?
  
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  Beehaw is already defederated from both.
  
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  if you have uBlock Origin set up you can adapt my filters: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1633853
  
  Something along the lines of this should work for you:
  
  beehaw.org##.person-listing[title$="@lemmygrad.ml"]:upward(:is(.post-listing, .comment)) beehaw.org##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title$="@lemmygrad.ml"]) beehaw.org##.person-listing[title$="@hexbear.net"]:upward(:is(.post-listing, .comment)) beehaw.org##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title$="@hexbear.net"])
  
  edit: beehaw seems to have defederated both already, so you don't need to do anything to block those two instances.
  
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  So both of
  
  https://alexandrite.app/
  
  https://vger.app
  
  are alternative web front ends to lemmy. The former is more desktop oriented. I don't think Voyager supports it yet but they update at a breakneck pace.
  
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- You’re not wrong about the tankie thing, I’d say it’s the major conflict in the “threadiverse” right now.
  
  That is GOOD to hear. I came across a post on Reddit about the founder a few months ago. I posted about it on my Mastodon account and got some crap from some guy about it, but that was about it aside from apathetic responses. I got the impression nobody cared.
  
  Thanks for the very helpful information.
  
  This is the nicest reception I've gotten on any platform since Reddit diaspora.
  
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  Fediverse people can be... territorial. I try to counteract it where I can, especially for newcomers. Welcome and you're welcome!
  
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Welcome and I hope you enjoy interacting in this space!

One thing to note is that communities across the instances (lemmy.ml being an instance) will have varying content and vibe, and may differ from what you might expect of an instance. So if you're selective with the communities you subscribe to and typically only scroll through your Subscribed front page, filtering out lemmy.ml might not be necessary.

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I’m not sure if it can block entire instances, but Voyager supports blocking communities. If you’ve used Apollo it’s pretty much that as a web app

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- Thanks, but I am a desktop web browser user.
  
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  As @Transform2942@lemmy.ml said, use https://alexandrite.app/ . It's a really good desktop interface to lemmy.
  
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- Thank you!
  
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