My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)
I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.
What about you?
My blocked community list got significantly shorter when they introduced instance blocking. Got pretty tired of playing furry porn community whackamole.
I have 7 instances blocked. I’m really glad that you can block instances while not blocking the users of those instances. Like I don’t want to see any posts from yiffit but being a furry doesn’t mean your comments aren’t worth reading, ya know?
The other blocked instances are porn and language-specific instances just to clean up my feed
Good to know! I didn’t want to miss out on @[email protected] comments, but now I won’t have to worry about it.
I’m this close to blocking ani.social as well because it’s mostly softcore porn. I like Anime, but not like this.
I added that one fast for the same reason. I am not an anime-hater but there’s way too much horny anime getting posted for my liking. Too many -chan characters that look basically identical middle schoolers.
Zero - I browse by subscribed. I probably have 100~200 comms subscribed to through this account, plus a dozen in my ani.social account.
How do you guys block thousands of communities? I have blocked around 10. I can exhaust my /all feed around twice a day, there isn’t even enough content showing up for me to block 1000+ communities.
Running out of content to browse is not a bad thing in my view. Then I just go do something else.
Even on my subscribed feed about 5th of the threads are caught by my daily growing list of content filters. I lose nothing of a value by filtering out the noise from the signal. Still waiting for someone to come up with uBlock filter to block threads linking to specific websites.
If a community only has posts I scroll past anyway, why have them show up at all? I want to see an interesting post followed by an interesting post even if it means running out of posts. It’s why I can’t enjoy Instagram…every other post is an ad I have to scroll past to see what my friends post
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I’m with you there. It took me a bit to block some trans communities because I felt like it made me a bigot despite being an ally. I just have nothing to add to the conversation so it’s the same as sports communities - just something I scrolled past anyway
A lot. Not sure how many. Hundreds. Lots of the porn communities for shit that I’m not interested in. Most of the vegan communities. Anime and furry porn, twinks and ladyboys, any women/girls with penises, bondage porn, any community that’s just an endless stream of pissing and moaning, tankies and fascists, bimbos and anything that glorifies plastic in female bodies, anything to do with unhealthy bodies, proana, etc. some local communities where I don’t live, a fucking baseball communities that posts 100 times a day and lots of team communities. Lots of communities on .ML
I browse all so that I see new communities as they emerge then block them if I’m not interested.
You forgot all the Montero and coin communities! It’s a good start though to be sure.
No communities, but I blocked the whole Lemmy NSFW instance because I am not into porn and autoplay GIFs in my feed is not to my liking. (you all do you I just don’t care for it).
I blocked /c/unpopularopinion after they deleted one of my posts, shut down the sublemmy, and then re-opened it with the rule “NO POLITICS”.
Meanwhile, the top fucking post is “I think people in prison should be allowed to vote”.
This is the type of shit guys.
That community, as well as the subreddit it came from, is a dumpster fire. It’d 99% bait or popular opinions.
I do agree with their no politics stance, though. There’s 473773 communities to argue politics on already
Unpopular opinion with no politics is like having an art subreddit which only allows images of blank white painted walls. Boring as fuck.
Eh I disagree unless you use the right wing definition of which is “politics is politics plus anything I don’t like”
There’s a ton of fun stuff to argue about.
I just personally don’t care to discuss trivial nonsense. Who gives a shit if someone likes their toast to be burnt?
It’s just a conversation starter. The comments in those posts about weird opinions can be pretty funny
Communities related to Anime, soft porn stuff like “pictures of fit women”, local communities about some town that’s 5,000 km away from me and football.
At least 20, most of them are political or I can’t understand what they’re saying so I don’t want to post because of an incorrect translation to prevent unnecessary offense.
Zero. I typically browse All/Top 6 Hours. Nothing bothers me enough to want to block it.
Yep, and if I wanted a filtered feed I’d view subscribed.
I do the same load but I have lots of blocks to keep down the static of things I am not interested in. Saves me some scrolling.
Memes, politics and gay/gender stuff.
Thought there would be more. But I block em as I see em.
The irony about “enough musk spam” is they’re the ones spamming the most.
The second-to-last one made me actually laugh out loud. What the fuck is that title lol
Aboringdystopia is one of those communities that doesn’t resemble its namesake at all. The subreddit had rules to match the theme but the Lemmy equivalent is just the same news articles of shitty things happening that appear on all the other news communities. They’re so lax about what constitutes “a boring dystopia,” it feels so lazy to me
From what I’ve heard, that was the idea behind the Enough Musk Spam community, that the spam could be posted there and people could block it.
But yeah, it’s a bit counterintuitive…
673 communities are blocked. Which, to be honest, is a hell of a lot more than I thought I had blocked. I thought I might have around 150 communities blocked. Most of them are sports, sports teams, video games I have no care for, weird ones, apps, gender communities, and furry oriented communities. I get around the porn ones by not having NSFW enabled.
28, all the gay porn, yiff/furry, and male anatomy ones that I’ve caught while browsing c/all.
Does the app you use let you block posts from an instance while not blocking the comments? If so, something to consider for yiffit.
the yiffit users out in the wild are the funniest ones to me.
I browse all, but I’ve only blocked a couple of dozen. Every one is just a language I don’t understand or American football (I’m just not a fan). But I have a “disable NSFW” button on my client so I use that if I’m in public.
I don’t mind seeing things in my feed that aren’t my thing as long as they don’t take over.
