Block Lemmygrad, hexbear, and may-be even .ml if your instance doesn’t

Don’t browse the c/ starting with politics/worldnews and similar

Keep on relax, cool, communities. places like [email protected], [email protected] or even [email protected] should be pretty safe compared to [email protected]

Edit: Lemmy cannot filter words, but some apps and alternative frontends can.

Lemmy can filter words, users, communities, or entire instances, if you know what you’re blocking for. Often illegal or excessive content will get reported by other users who browse new before it hits hot or active. But without forcing everything posted under a moderator review first, I’m not sure you could achieve perfect preemptive filtering.

This is Voyager’s filter settings, they should be accessible through the Web UI settings too.

Find a smaller instance and use the local and subscribed feeds. Then make use of the tools for more fine-grained blocking.

There is no golden rule for this, just like any social media, laws vary in different countries.

You should block all NSFW instances and all NSFW communities on general instances if you are concerned about breaking the law, doing that shows that you are intentionally blocking content that is seen as questionable.

My blocklist is huge, I tend to browse all, and add instances or communities to the list constantly. Most of the stuff is things I find annoying, ourt of sight, out of mind, other times it is hard NSFW and I don’t want to get porn by randomly browsing Lemmy, if that is what I am after I will use a dedicated account.

You can also just subscribe to communities you want to read and only browse those.

I don’t think you SHOULD avoid content that offends you. And I don’t think we shouldn’t judge people. I judge everybody I meet. It’s not a bad thing.

It’s how you know if you’re ACTUALLY offended, or if you’re told you SHOULD be offended.

And somewhere along the way society lost it’s ability to know if they’re truely offended, or if they’re offended because other people are offended.

I’ll give you an example. Chick-fil-a offends a LOT of people because of their christian views, and their donations to anti-LGBQT causes.

I fully understand if you’re offended by them if you have close ties to LGBQT communities. I’m not saying those who are genuinely offended by them are wrong for being offended.

But if you have no real feelings either way about it, then you shouldn’t be offended just because other people are offended. And it’s good for them to be offended, because it gives them a cause based in their own opinion. Them refusing to eat at chick-fil-a means something. It’s something that affects them.

But if you have no views on it, then it doesn’t affect you. You’re not actually offended, you’re playing along with who tells you that you need to be offended.

And in turn, this means that protests don’t have actual passion behind them. I haven’t bought anything from a local grocery store called Marcs. That’s MY protest. But if you protested it, because I told you to, then there’s an artificial protest.

And now we can’t trust protests as an indication of who really cares about things, and how to judge those things objectively. Thats how you end up with bullshit like the Jan 6th riots. A bunch of brainless mindless fools being told that they’re offended. So now they have go satisfy their master.

And we never would have gotten to this point if over the past 30 years these people would ask themselves “how do I feel about this?” rather than “how do my peers think I should feel about this?”

Blocking is the best way I think, can’t really avoid blocking the bad actors no matter where you go. Or just ignore em.