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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (6 children)

You're right, we should focus on Lemmy.ml instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Their memes instance crashed and burned. Since then I don't see the big deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I sure have lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.

In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.

This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.

This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click "Settings".

At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says "Blocks".

Here you will see "Block user" "Block community" and "Block instance". Click the down arrow below "Block instance".

This will open up a search bar. Type "lemmy.ml" and click it after it shows up.

That's it! You've blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance. Now you don't need to make a feud post every day complaining about .ml and other instances you disapprove of. Think of all the time you will save!

But wait, we aren't done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under "Block user". Now type "UltraGiGaGigantic" Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They are not as extreme, but you cannot realistically have a civilized discussion on their servers. Unfortunately they are much more established with several big communities which are hesitant to move to more reasonable servers so while hexbear was an easy insta-ban for me and most other Lemmy users, we're stuck individually blocking ml users for now.

But hopefully because of the idiotic choice of the ml domain, they will eventually go the way of hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

They are not as extreme

IMO they're just more subtle about it because they don't want a larger call for defed to happen, I'm sure they all have alts on Hex/Grad where they let out their..."restraints".

They're very quick to deride .world as nothing but a "Reddit 2.0 CIA front propaganda machine" and yet won't defed from it themselves....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Wasn't the whole .ml domain an issue way back during the reddit migration too, cause its the domain for Mali? I remember it being an issue when I came over to Lemmy, which was back during that migration. When Reddit locked down its api and a bunch of redditors (me included) did a "blackout" to protest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

cause its the domain for Mali

Cyberspace colonialism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes it was. That's exactly what I was referring to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

How come nothing came of that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I blocked the entire instance and I'm doing just fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't really help retain newcomers any if we all just bury our heads in the sand

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I mean, it's better than nothing I guess

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

I did too but I still see the users. It just blocks all their communities.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad you're using lemmy the way you want and not being weird and expecting the admission to block things for you. Take care, peace.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Don't talk to me.