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?
Yes, those two.
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
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
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
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?
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
Just 5 - 3 from hexbear, 1 quasi NSFW that keeps popping up (I have NSFW turned off), and the Far Side one because they’re a lot less funny and more boomer humor than I remember.
I get you but I disagree about Far Side because it’s almost entirely wholesome. Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is
Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is
As opposed to humor boomers actually like…
Boomer humor is not all humor that boomers like. It’s humor that was primarily popular in their era - like “I hate my wife” jokes fit because don’t really play well anymore
I block controversial stuff as it pops up. Anything that hits with racebaiting, gender, sexuality… I’m too mentally ill to try and have those conversations with internet groups so if some heavy post pops up I just nope out and move on. No bigotry, I’m just too fragile to say the wrong thing and get slammed by an avalanche. In my personal network I like diversity, in public I try and avoid heavy stuff. I like random tidbits and pop media, easy stuff. especially nature and hobbies.
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
It would be cool to be able to set communities to ‘read only’ so I could read the comments, but replies would be disabled or would pop up with a ‘you have set this community to read only’ warning first to discourage myself from engaging. This would work for a lot of LGBTQ+ communities where I don’t have anything substantial to add the vast majority of the time, but am still interested in learning. The read only part would help to keep me from goofing up when tired/stoned/drunk.
Not worth development time though, since the same outcome can come from self control.
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’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 do the same thing. I use all as my home page so I can see new and interesting stuff.
I tend to block most 'ism and 'ism-adjacent communities, Foreign language communities, political communities, NSFW/Fetish, and a few highly specific tech/app/language communities that mostly only post version updates.
Bots. lots of bots. If your community is 90% bot posts/repost aggregation and I see 5-10 posts consecutively in ‘all’ because your bot just vomited up it’s entire load in a 120 second span then I’ll probably block it.
- 8 Keywords (Voyager app feature)
- 186 Users.
- 964 Communities.
- 38 Instances.
There’s way too many communities consisting solely of bots reposting from the subreddit of the same name. I do not understand why anyone would want that. There’s rarely comments
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.
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.
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.
Yep, and if I wanted a filtered feed I’d view subscribed.
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.
I’ve got hundreds of straight porn related communities blocked which were a lot of repeating themes which could be combined in one! Sprinkled in are some about sports, furries, and anime porn. I like exploring All and blocking the communities that don’t speak to me. My block list is going to be huge before long, at the rate duplicates are made.
Oh man I totally agree about the repeating themes. That’s true even on the non-porn communities…especially during the gold rush to copy every single subreddit but none of the rules that made them unique
I don’t really use Lemmy for porn but I don’t mind seeing it since I have NSFW posts blurred. Aside from sexuality/kinks I’m not into, I block a lot of communities with users that post like 20 things at once.
Yeah, it’s truly wild that the rules didn’t transfer over (those were clearly written on each subreddit). The gold rush was poorly done, if it were better managed we’d have had a better default experience! Lemmy is one of several sources for unique erotic content (as gay NSFW is more scattered online). Often the only ones posting are the mods of said community so often I don’t need to block them as it’s all unique. I’ve almost fully curated my Lemmy experience now; since I’ve invested more time in this fediverse social platform.
