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China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

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[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I use a client that can block instances, so I have all of Hexbear blocked. It radically improves the Lemmy experience.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tell me your wisdom, duck of the lake.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] orphiebaby@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I use a Violentmonkey script to do so

[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync let's you do it. Also possibly Connect? I forgot the other one, but i think it might be Connect.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Yes, connect lets you block instances, but it still shows that there was a comment there and lets you show it. It's handy to see how much you're blocking.

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Kbin allows users to do this (noting kbin isn't a client it's a compatible platform).

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memmy app let’s you do it as well.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am using Eternity or Voyager, I will be so happy when instance blocking comes to those.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Connect does instance blocking and I think LiftOff does as well.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I just.tried Liftoff and i did not see that option

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give Memmy a try. I switched to it so I could block entire instances. It’s made my feed so much better!

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for the recommendation, but I'm on Android, so I can't use it. On spezit I loved, and supported Infinity, the Infinity fork Eternity is very good. I love having my own colour theme, it's great for qol, and all the other nice features it has.

[–] TheRealTurducken@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sync is an outstanding Lemmy client for Android.

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apologies! I should have mentioned it was for iOS.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

No worries at all

[–] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Never hear a dissenting opinion. I'll take, what is an echo chamber for $200.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

There's differing opinions and then there's just shittalking. When it comes to differing opinions most of Hexbear interactions deliberately (by the admission of their own users) fall under shittalking. They deliberately antagonize and troll anyone with a different opinion because in their mind anyone who doesn't agree with them should be trolled. You don't get differing opinions from Hexbear, you get a bastardization of a differing opinion. One that is different only on the basis them telling you you're wrong, and in most cases even that has to be intuited.

Nobody should wade through shit to get a few nuggets of gold which is why most people just block Hexbear.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 year ago

Just because they blocked Hexbear doesn't mean they block all the opinions they dislike.

Hexbear is just full of radicals and trolls.