To address conspiracy theories
Excluding szmer
We block it for being a straight on propaganda outfit for authoritarian regimes.
Which fits the definition of “nasty people” in my book!
The OP is on-point. It’s not about the particular ideological tinge, it’s about the caustic experience of interfacing with them.
Also, I’d add forcing to impose alt history without credible evidences. They’re also… difficult and too angry in conversations.
They said they are only guilty of “wanting to build a better world”. But really there is no way a better world could come from such a community. It just doesn’t work
Lemmygrad was a communist instance with a nice community before genzedong left reddit. I would look at the new posts every day and the community was friendly. Lately I view Lemmy much less than I had been back then. I definitely feel like lemmygrad has become hostile.
I’ve very recently started using the user blocklist in the lemmy settings to remove a couple users from my feed who I feel are obnoxious/overly confrontational. I feel like this has actually been a lot more helpful than I was expecting, but it’s only been a few days.