Gonna be the odd one out here and say that all of these names are kinda stupid, but Lemmyverse is probably the best of the bunch.

Use a custom DNS to block stuff like this. PiHole, nextdns, adguard etc.

Both uBlock Origin and my piHole are blocking prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com (which is the video autoplaying). My browser (Librewolf) also blocks it - as blocked because the triggering iframe has the sandbox flag set.. Stuff like this always is down to your own set up.

You may wish to use a script to change all Lemmy links to point to your home instance https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher

Switches all lemmy links to your instance.

Piefed is another federated social aggregator https://piefed.social/ akin to Lemmy.

Whelp, guess I’m joining the Boycott US movement

Edit:

Swapped Google for Ecosia

Brave for Librefox (also swapped Firefox Nightly for Iceraven on mobile)

Swapped Uber for Bolt/Uber Eats for Just Eats

It’s better if you untick “show read posts” in your lemmy settings.

I made a list of casual communities on Lemmy awhile ago https://lemmy.world/post/2216085 just subscribe to stuff you like and curate your own feed. Block the politics subs. Boom.

Lobsters has blocked the Brave browser since a scam in 2019. We still block it because they lie about following standards so they scrape and sell copies of websites. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but they have previously targeted Lobsters by name and have a years-long pattern of bad behavior.

Well, that’s a new one. What you see if you visit it via Brave Browser.

Unrelated to this but worth noting that Sync will be broken in the soon to come 1.0 update for Lemmy. The dev for Sync is awol. Might be worth checking out the other apps like Boost for Lemmy, Summit, Thunder, Jerboa, etc.

No, but you can export your data/subscriptions through your settings, sign up on another instance and import it. But moving posts/comments over, no.

/u/murd0x@lemmy.ml

On the surface I’m against this but I guess it depends on what we get out of it. Ultimately, leaving the EU puts us in an awkward spot. We have to pick and choose our battles.

this comment is how I learned Truth Social was based on Mastodon.

In a general election, you vote for your local representative to represent you in parliament.

Ridings are what Canada call their electoral districts. An area in which a member of parliament stands for election.

Nepean is a location in Ottawa. Mark is running for election there.

You can block ads

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Finishing work

Some additional details here https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-tajikistan-border-deal-historic-peace-agreement/33345668.html

Don’t let imperfection get in the way of progress. If you move slightly towards the left, you’re opening doors for more left ideology.