Is there a way to shop around for a Lemmy instance based on how many instances are blocking it and how many instances it’s blocking? For example, I noticed that the lemmygrad.ml instance is relatively popular, but it seems like a lot of other instances block it. It also blocks a bunch of other instances. So, if there are any communities on there that might be relevant to me then I would be missing out. I guess I could just create an account on a walled instance, but I would prefer not to keep creating accounts. I’d like to just find one instance that maximizes my access. Is the answer to just run my own instance?

  • 7eter@feddit.de
    26·
    1 year ago

    U might want to take a look at the federation map. It might be a bit overwhelming but in the settings on the bottom left you may chose blocked and allowed in order to get some insights on who federates with whom.

        • jarfil@lemmy.ml
          14·
          1 year ago

          Why can’t a user choose to block an instance? That sounds like it should be a feature request, at least for the app.

        • CrimeDad@lemmy.oneOP
          8·
          1 year ago

          Okay, thanks for filling me in. I myself am skeptical about US-centric, mainstream criticism of China and DPRK et al., but I can see how that gets annoying when people get carried away with it. If there’s a way to mute instances rather than completely sever the connection for all the members of an instance with a block, I think that would have been more appropriate in this case. I think Mastodon has that functionality, but maybe not.

        • thevoyage@no.lastname.nz
          1·
          1 year ago

          Basically sums it up really, although it’s great fun to drop in and stir up shit every so often.

          They’re completely off the deep end though.

        • FaceDeer@lemmy.ml
          227·
          1 year ago

          Be mindlessly propagandistic “communist.” The countries they fawn over aren’t even particularly communist, they’re just authoritarian. Russia in particular is run by capitalist oligarchs.

          It’s just tiresome and pointless engaging with them.

            • comfy@lemmy.ml
              143·
              1 year ago

              It’s fine to be offended that they called you propagandised, but that doesn’t make it less offensive to immediately say the same thing back to them. You are both insulting each other, it’s not helping the Lemmygrad situation.

              • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
                55·
                1 year ago

                There is no “lemmygrad situation”, it’s gaslighting lemmy by liberals getting wind in the sails with reddit refugees and attacking us all the time. note this basically didn’t happen at all before, they just blocked us and maybe badmouthed in their dens, i don’t care, i;m not going there. The arguments we had on lemmy were heated but not resembling current offensive.

                  • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
                    32·
                    1 year ago

                    I appreciate the advice, but I have gotten the same talk from Muad before. This is me being patient and not slinging shit!

                    I’m specifically trying to get to the meat of the argument without wasting a lot of time effort-posting primary source essays no one will read.

                    I think it’s worthwhile to show the disparity between the liberal worship of polite debate and their actual actions.

            • FaceDeer@lemmy.ml
              74·
              1 year ago

              I’m not speaking about you specifically, I have no idea who you are. I’m talking about lemmygrad in general. Just like the person you were responding to was talking about. He asked “what did lemmygrad.ml do?” And I’m clarifying that.

              It’s not that lemmygrad.ml is simply “communist.”

                • FaceDeer@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  43·
                  1 year ago

                  Seems ironic in a thread where someone’s looking for minimally-blocked instances.

                  But on the plus side, perhaps it illustrates the value of blocking.

                • comfy@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  65·
                  1 year ago

                  They’re not sealioning, they’re responding to a bunch of strong, reasonably insulting allegations. Maybe not responding gracefully, but they’re not sealioning.

                  In fact, I don’t even think it’s possible for one reply to be sealioning, the whole point is that it’s repetitive harassment (as stated in the wiki link you posted). That’s why the original comic strip that defined it has so many panels.

                  • 0xc0ba17@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    42·
                    1 year ago

                    There’s a thread of replies arguing on the semantics of communism, name-dropping stuff like Krause and Nomad (willfully ignoring the fact that FaceDeer’s issue is about LemmyGrad and not communism), and repeating “you’ve chosen to engage with me” while this is very obviously the other way around.

      • fluffman86@lemmy.ml
        51·
        1 year ago

        @rrpeak@feddit.de linked one reddit post while I was searching for this one, so here it is anyway:

        https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/13zl7s1/fediversetips_i_do_not_recommend_lemmy_i_have/

        And here’s the OG mastodon post from fedi.tips:

        https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

        Make sure to “Show More” on each post in the thread, including the replies. I thought it was all spamming the same post for a minute, lol.

      • 7eter@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I assumed this shows if an instance whitelisted/allowed another instance.