Looking forward to the comments saying this true but good, actually.

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      I don’t think they’re saying everyone here was banned from Reddit. They’re saying everyone ever banned from Reddit is here…which, (gestures vaguely at my massive block list) isn’t an inaccurate statement lol.

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        We should have some kind of “block list” sport competition here on Lemmy playing by category:

        • Longest users list 🏆

        • Longest communities list 🏆

        • Most blocked user 🎖️

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          It helps to block whole entire instances. Some innocents may get caught up in that, but that is a sacrifice that I am willing to make.

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            This. The way I see it, if an admin can’t (or won’t) moderate their users, the problem can only get worse.

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              And it does. Then they seem shocked - Shocked I say, SHOOKETH! - when the same behavior that gets them many upvotes in their home instance is met with… “resistance” outside of their echo chambers.

              Blocking hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, or lemmy.ml will improve people’s experiences on the Threadiverse by 90% - while blocking all 3 raises that to >99.99%, although self-admitted alt accounts on more standard instances (such as [email protected]) remain to have to be blocked one by one.

              Nobody explains any of this to newcomers of course, which helps (it seems to me) explain the high rate of people leaving. Your instance https://startrek.website/ even has a huge, full-page advertisement from the Lemmy developers Nutomic and Dessalines, the latter at least seems to spend a great deal of his time moderating the users of a highly contentious political instance rather than editing the Lemmy sourcecode. i.e. a donation to that team goes a long way towards contributing to the formation of those very same echo chambers that drive Redditors away from the platform, rather than donations to the codebase being separate from donations to the lemmy.ml instance itself. I am not making this political - they are the ones who already made it political, I am just reporting that fact.