I sought out and discovered this feature existed only last week right after I wondered if I could block all of hexbear.

You also need to block everyone from Hexbear. I don't have the same reaction to everyone from ML (though I have that instance blocked too), but after I interact with them, they usually get blocked anyway.

He's in for a walloping

Ich_iel bothers me because you shouldn't have to block it. Lemmy has language filters built in. You should never see anything in a language you haven't told Lemmy you speak.

But ich_iel doesn't use that filter. Their users leave their posts' language seeing as unspecified. So everyone ends up seeing it.

Good point, thanks.

And the easiest way to handle blocking in many apps too, quick and easy peasy.

A lot of us are of the opinion that they're just falsely claiming to be Marxists.

It primarily comes from a specific instance though and they're slowly becoming more and more isolated. If you stick to the defaults on .world, you may not see them that much. Say something about China though and they'll find you.

Because you aren't federated with certain instances?

lemmy.world (your home instance) is currently defederated on an instancewide level from the main perpetrators of the CCP/Putin-sponsored drivel: lemmygrad and hexbear. They caused too many problems, and too many use abuse brigades/dogpiles, so they excised the cancer.

Defederation means that lemmy.world does not ask for, and does not accept, any kind of new content from either of those instances, nor does it send out new content from .world to them. They're effectively completely cut off.

you'll still see it from time to time on lemmy.ml, especially in their "World News" community (where you are banned for remotely indicating Russia is bad) as a lot of that is tacitly allowed and encouraged by .ml admins and the Lemmy devs. but it's a lot more subdued and easier to just ignore.

/c/all will definitely show instances like lemmygrad where it's very common

http://piefed.social/ has