I honestly cannot find it. I find that Hexbear and Lemmigrad are frowned upon (hadn’t previously encountered them), but I actually find a few recommendations about Lemmy.ml. And many of my own subs are from there. I’d really like to understand!

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 2 points 12 hours ago

The hexbear folks were the worst. Like, putting all of their political opinions aside, they would just swarm posts and flood it with low quality buzzwords and memes and every formatting option to be as visually obnoxious as possible.

I don't know if I blocked them, they blocked me, or if my instance defederated from then, but holy shit my Lemmy experience got so much better when I stopped seeing their shit everywhere.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Third post on that community: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21703037

On the same topic: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/23836769

[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Huh, interesting! Thanks a lot! I guess I’ll keep reading the communities on lemmy.ml but avoid joining more. And if I ever encounter the issues described I hope I’ll find similar communities elsewhere. So far everything on Lemmy is so much better than in any other platforms that I’m quite happy.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, one nice thing is that you can remove the problem communities and you see a lot less of them

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml is actively spreading malicious authoritarian propaganda, better to just avoid it

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I sometimes wonder if they get more power to do harm, if people that are aware just block them instead of using their votes while staying outside.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There was a list of alternatives communities to lemmy.ml: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/16923582

[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 19 hours ago

Thanks!