Since the federation the comment sections got so inflammatory. Literally everything gets turned into some political “capitalism bad” or “the west bad” discussion. It made Lemmy very annoying for me to use…

  • kek
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    1 year ago

    No.

    This is how you kill the fediverse. I don’t think people enjoy hopping from instance to instance & eventually they’ll stop altogether.

    Fair enough if it the content is illegal, but we shouldn’t defederate just because the content annoys you or you don’t agree with it.

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      1 year ago

      What if it will annoy a big percentage of normal users?

      E.g. would you enjoy having exploding-heads content in your feed?

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        1 year ago

        instance hopping should be normal: i have 8 accounts simultaneously open in my Connect app. Also connect allows u to hide comments from filtered (blocked) insntance of ur choice, including hexbear.

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          1 year ago

          But I generally like this instance.

          • zoe
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            1 year ago

            its okay, as i stated earlier, u can always filter an instance, including its users and their comments, just by using ur main