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Need more bait posts like this to help expand my blocklist, just got so many. Thanks OP!
Right? Filter out enormous swathes of obnoxious shitheads from your feed in one fell swoop!
And here I am, back again, adding more blocks to the list lmao. Goddamn I love this, their brigading makes it so easy to block them, they just gather themselves all in one place for you, EZPZ.
We wouldn't want you to be exposed to any viewpoints outside the Western propaganda cannon, that would be too much intellectual effort
Yeah cause .ml and .hexbear are toootally not propaganda echo chambers.
"no guys it's totally not an echo chamber, we just ban and/or relentlessly attempt to troll anyone with a differing opinion than ours!"
I'd say it's an impressive level of cognitive dissonance, but then, you'd already have to have that to believe China is a socialist utopia. Really it's just Tuesday for them.
I said it elsewhere, but a space where the dominant opinion is fringe among the general population is not really an echo chamber, while one where the space aligns with the dominant views and bans dissenting views is. You can't avoid engaging with the dominant ideas of society.
Secondly, I have never seen anyone say the PRC is a socialist "utopia." It's socialist, yes, but not a utopia. Marxism is anti-utopian.
They aren't, no.
They are less echo-chambery than Lemmy.world, in my opinion, as Lemmy.world largely aligns with the status quo and as such cutting out communists means you aren't exposed to communist perspectives at all, while on Hexbear, which is less broadly federated than Lemmy.ml, you still can't avoid engaging with liberalism when off of Hexbear.
In other words, Hexbear is a place carved out for communists by communists, but Hexbear users can't actually avoid interacting with liberals. Lemmy.world, on the other hand, aligns with the status quo, and cuts out viewpoints that go against that, meaning they can avoid engaging with communists to a far greater degree.
Got to cultivate that echo chamber