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
I would love it if blocking all users from an inatance was available as a separate option from the users. I think the majority of my blocked users are from two instances.
Hexbear and lemmy.ml?
The fact that you can so easily guess which two instances proves it would be a useful tool to be able to block all their users.
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Yes, those two.
Got pretty tired of playing furry porn community whackamole.
Coincidentally, the furry porn whack-off-a-mole community is not very popular.
Be the change you want to see. (:
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.
I’m gonna need a list of these ridiculous communities. You know, to block them. /S
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.
LemmyWorld is already defederated from a lot of instances that the average user is likely to be blocking, anyway, so chances are those communities won’t show up in your All feed to begin with.
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
All those fucking Moe ones. Don’t think I can see that on jerboa, maybe 10?
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).
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.
I mostly just block users who post awful shit. But I have blocked a lot of niche Linux communities just because they were taking up most of the page and while I appreciate Linux, I’m not a super hardcore fanboy.
Oh yeah, I didn’t think about the Linux communities…I do have a lot of those distro-specific ones blocked. And a bunch of communities for software I don’t use
I’m heavy handed with blocking.
I block all the major NSFW instances. Non-english speaking instances. A few of the terminally argumentative instances.
Quite a few communities that cover topics or issues I don’t care to read about. And some that are low effort article spam pits.
I block people that want to argue about substanceless nonsense, or try to low-effort goad me.
Bots are also blocked in settings.
That, plus all the obvious propaganda, dogmatic echo chambers, and people who misspell stuff voluntarily, or make extremely basic mistakes (“your wrong”, “its that”, “there logic”, etc) more than once.
Glad I’m not the only one ruthlessly blocking people for petty reasons. I deliberately go into controversial threads just to find the “fuck X”, ACAB, eat the rich etc. comments only to block the users. If that’s your style of commenting then I’m not interested in what else you’ve got to say. I don’t mind disagreement. I’m simply just not interested in seeing that kind of low effort shitposting on my feed.
“I NEED to be the first to post this popular sentiment but I have literally nothing else to add”
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
The subreddit is really shit though. I’ve had posts removed where it wasn’t political, but got removed because “UHHHH IT NO AN UNPOPULAR OPINION! UHHH!!”
When, just gazing at the front page of the subreddit, you’ll find dozens of shit that were allowed to be posted that contradicts the entire meaning of the subreddit itself at every second.
The problem is that the moderators just cannot handle it when someone truly has something spicy of an unpopularopinion to express that isn’t gender, race or politically related.
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.
You know how adblock has blocklists… what if we had shareable lemmy blocklists like that? Anyone could create a blocklist and you could import into your client. Would be pretty sweet.
Would have to be fairly frequently updated and constantly monitored.
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.
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.
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…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
It’s hard to say. I use a keyword block that auto-blocks any community with “meme” in its title. So it could be dozens, or even hundreds. I’ve never counted. I have similar keywords for things I’m not interested in like “waifu”, “anime”, and most stuff adjacent to those topics.
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.
I don’t block any but, as an Admin, I tend to check on all communities (theoretically) in case there’s shenanigans. As I am on a smaller instance Local is manageable and then I use Subscribed. All is too much of a firehose of content to use much. So I am more opt-in than opt-out.
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)
Glad you like it.
