I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of ‘hitlerites’

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    Hexbear.net, lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad.ml have a lot of extreme leftists who have very wild takes that could be mistaken for right wing takes.

    I personally don’t recommend blocking them because outside of political threads they make up a lot of the content/memes/discussions, but up to you if you want to try that out.

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      they make up a lot of the content/memes/discussions

      Shouldn’t be “rewarding” them with content/activity, they only have like 2 or 3 communities that crack the top 20 in MAUs these days anyways. And they’re all .ml

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      I’ve blocked all 3, I see comments from them but not posts.

      Most of the communities are are slowly moving away anyway, given how many users don’t want to engage with the instance at all.

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        There’s honestly a lot of high quality posts on lemmy.ml. Maybe some from Hexbear if you’re into leftist niches like veganism

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          Sure, but that content could go elsewhere where you can actually criticize China without catching a ban. And if those communities choose not to, that’s their problem when more and more people decide to block their instance as not worth dealing with.