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.
Good to know! I didn’t want to miss out on @kolanaki@yiffit.net comments, but now I won’t have to worry about it.
I did. Those usernames are too distracting and shout “look at me!”, so I’m filtering all of them.
I totally agree. Before I found the option to disable custom display names, I found that guy insufferable…2024 equivalent of xXxUSERNAMExXx. I don’t think I’ve noticed him since, though I’m sure I’ve read his comments
I’m this close to blocking ani.social as well because it’s mostly softcore porn. I like Anime, but not like this.
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. (:
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.
Memes, politics and gay/gender stuff.
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.
The tankie trio, and a load of gay/trans stuff I have no interest in seeing.
Blocking Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Lemmy.ml fixed 99% of my issues with this place.
Zero - I browse by subscribed. I probably have 100~200 comms subscribed to through this account, plus a dozen in my ani.social account.
samesies
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
A lot, I’ve blocked all political, non-english, and anime communities that show up
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.
Zero. I don’t need to block communities as I only browse subscriptions.
Zero.
I’ve basically blocked all meme communities.
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.
How many is .ee blocking?
I signed up for what I thought was the most open connected free speech instance. But maybe I need to switch
On most Lemmy instances, you can go to the bottom of the front page and click the “Instances” link, and it’ll show you all the other instances that one is connected to and which ones they block.
I feel like there is a crapload I’m not seeing
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
i wasn’t even aware that was a thing you could do, but i suppose it makes sense.
Oh and it’s none just for the record.
