I would prefer to avoid having to ban every individual page on each instance that gains in popularity across lemmy.
Is the only option to host one myself?
It unfortunately became the de facto lifeboat for Redditors during the API changes and when third party apps shut down. This is because it’s run by admins who administer a similarly large Mastodon instance, and thus, lemmy.world was able to handle the influx of users as lemmy.ml and others struggled.
Also, people flocked there because it wasn’t one of the “tankie” instances.
So yeah it’s basically concentrated, Reddit liberalism. The politics comm specifically is cursed.
As others have said, you can block instances on some apps. Otherwise, just block some of their communities. The feature to block instances is being worked on, but the Lemmy devs are spread thin.
We don’t need big instances imo.
There’s is already flooded with so much pro-USA-no-matter-what content. The discussions are equally as one sided…
I definitely agree. The approach lemmy world took of catering to the reddit crowd and trying to become the biggest instance hosting all communities in one place was always doomed to create that sort of atmosphere. And open sign ups are a part of that issue. I spent a pretty long time on lemmy before making an account and settling on dbzer0 because it’s an anarchist instance. And people should’ve been encouraged to find an instance that’s right for them.
I’ve already blocked world since I’m using connect and my browsing experience is so much better again. The amount of reddit libs on .world is completely insufferable.
