I wouldn’t say I’m “facing” it exactly… 🙃

“yes”

Yeah I don’t see it either, surely it’s just out of frame in the picture? 😞

There are whole entire huge events that happen in the world that when I search the Threadiverse find no matches to those keywords, as if it did not occur or at least it went unacknowledged by this community. So not even just lack of “niche” content, but lack of content beyond tankie and/or USA politics and Linux v. Windoze.

Communities there are like “<insert name of game here, global version, community #2>”, while here it be like… “games”. Same for the vast majority of movies or TV shows.

However, I completely get it - this is a toxic bunch, and I for one have stopped recommending Lemmy to people IRL. I don’t want to lose friendships over them coming here, seeing how we can be (without SUBSTANTIAL amounts of blocking), and then noping out, thinking I am one of “them”.

We need the content, I am agreeing with you, but we will never get it because we chase everyone away by being too toxic. I am putting my hopes now not into Lemmy anymore but into PieFed, and in particular better moderation tools that could potentially save the Threadiverse from perpetually remaining in obscurity. Though it still needs quite a bit of polish first imho.

Usually there’s an uptick of violent bOtH sIdEs SaMe-style rhetoric just prior to an election in some Western nation. I’m not sure if that is what is happening now or something else.

I think people leave because of the lack of niche communities.

That is also true:-). What they say for themselves is (1) tankies, (2) toxicity, (3) too confusing (this must be Lemmy bc PieFed’s sign up wizard is outstanding), and (4) yeah, lack of content.

I haven’t moderated a community on PieFed, but in addition to what Skavau said, PieFed has many tools that alleviate the need for moderation in the first place, like keyword filtering (you wouldn’t need to make a community rule to reduce the amount of Musk or Trump content when users can filter that out on their own without needing a mod to do it for them) and user icons (next to e.g. highly contentious users with >10-fold more downvotes than upvotes, so you better know what you are getting into if you choose to respond).

The people who are most likely to become blocked by following my advice are well-known to be anti-choice (in the sense that they don’t want others to have the ability to block them). Which ironically is one of the best reasons to go ahead and do so.

Block early and often is practically the motto of Lemmy. Many people got banned from Reddit for a reason, and then they all came here. People with a conscience also came here too, but there’s definitely a lot of noise amidst the signal.

And moderation tools here suck, so it’s much less regulated overall, which is somewhat a good thing but then people don’t want to discuss the bad side where people straight-up leave here as a result, as evidenced by e.g. the Monthly Active User counts in decline and also comments in spaces such as r/RedditAlternatives.

Ah, just purely a joke then, carry on! :-)

There are ways but they are quite difficult. The Sync or Connect apps offer that, although I think they aren’t updated often iirc. Some exceedingly few instances have defederated from lemmy.ml, but none of the major ones. You can also get into customized uBlock Origin filtering rules, if you want…

Or just switch to PieFed, which has tons of features that Lemmy lacks. Like seriously, just tons and tons of them, and more keep being added practically weekly. Lemmy can or will not keep up, so it will fall behind and PieFed continue to pull ahead, watch and see. https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser

And they can vote on your content, reply to you, send you DMs, triggering notifications, etc. The “instance block” doesn’t really block much at all…

Moving to PieFed is about the only realistic way to be able to block all users from an instance. (Otherwise there’s Sync and Connect, neither of which are updated iirc, and from there you start getting into custom uBlock Origin filtering rules… PieFed is just way easier, plus has tons of other features that Lemmy lacks and likely will either never have or at least will take many years to begin to catch up, at which point PieFed will continually have added even moar-er features… it’s a virtuous cycle:-)

Idgi, what’s the deal with .nl?

Disinformation only hinders the cycle. Misinformation if offered in good faith can cause hiccups but perseverance can overcome those and aid all involved.

Argumentation in bad faith helps nobody - it’s purely emotional vomit.

I think I have… it’s you! 😉

Cat did a cost to benefit ratio analysis and decided that being good just wasn’t worth it:-P

Admiral Patrick definitely approves (look at his profile pic:-P

The reason it looks so very similar to the Alt-Right, is because it basically is.

… we don’t?

I literally can’t do what the meme suggests, because I’ve already blocked all users from that instance automatically.

You might try slrpnk.net for what you were looking for. I guess you know that by now, but in case anyone else is reading and thinking similarly.