I learned the other day that beehaw blocks lemmy.world due to the amount of bad faith actors in that instance and it got me curious so I decided to block it in my settings last night. It's a bit of weird move for me personally as I've always been one to say that blocking should only be used as a last resort. But I wanted to make myself contribute to some of the smaller instances as I dislike how so much is centralized at LW.

Has anyone on here done something similar? I'm curious to hear other peoples thoughts on the matter.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I've blocked lemmy.world and there are a lot fewer obnoxious users showing up. Less content as well, but not so much that I miss it.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm Lemmy.world and I can see you, odd .

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

I think it's a client side thing, so I can choose to reveal comments that .world lemmings make if I want. A user can't defederate unilaterally.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I've been browsing throughout the day and been liking it. You still get to see comments from users on that instance but it's a lot less noise so far.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've been considering it also lately. Either the instance grew or the userbase just changed somehow or maybe I only just noticed but LW just feels like it's culture is way shittier recently.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So many new users default to it so it just attracts all those newcomers and trolls. It's sad to do because there's a lot of good people and discussions on the instance. But more and more I just feel like discussions are becoming more and more annoying and a waste of time because it just leads nowhere. I don't mind the decrease in posts personally. I prefer quality over quantity personally.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

A hundred percent so. Lots of people want Lemmy to grow but I think we're already huge, so much so I feel the need to trim some of the fat.