Why?
Personally I block anything that ends with “moe” I’m not really into thirst traps and anime thirst traps feel like the bottom of an already unwanted barrel.
Oh yeah, forgot about this. Each time I rotate accounts I’ve got to go on an anime blocking spree. Nothing against anime but the fans are creeps.
Thankfully you can block a handful of users and then you won’t get included in their new perversions.
Thiccmoe aren’t even thicc.
Whack-a-Moe. Seems endless. I point to that as a main reason lemmy will never gain popularity.
I don’t have any. I instead subscribe to as many communities I find interesting and set my feed to only my subscriptions. I rarely venture out to All and only do when I want to discover more communities.
I use the opposite strategy, which is what I did on Reddit: browse All, and block everything that isn’t interesting. Sports teams, shows I didn’t care about, other niche communities. I prefer this approach because I like finding content I never would have thought to subscribe to.
I alternate. I have my own curated list of subscriptions, which is mostly serious reading, so I’ll spend some time perusing that.
And then I move to All and enjoy the randomness, sometimes adding communities to my subscriptions, sometimes banning subs or content creators if they annoy me.
I’ve found this is exactly the best way to enjoy Lemmy.
That’s what I do, too. However, I did block some communities, mostly meme- or politics related, so I can briefly browse the “all” category once in a while.
This is why i think subject tagging for communities makes a lot of sense. I want to remove anime, k-pop, video games, sports, region-specific, tv/movie, “anarchy”/“everything sucks” and plenty of other entire categories from my “All” feed, but blocking is a never-ending effort.
Great idea. I’d love a “No German” switch.
Es gibt kein Entkommen!
Hexbear is blocked for me.
hexbear,ml, lemmygrad all filled with nasty people.
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Mostly just subjects I don’t have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.
The tankie triad and anything anime related. I swear anime bros make a new comm for each of their favorite characters in a specific outfit
No instances, but I’ve blocked 868 communities so far. Either languages I don’t understand or topics I’m not interested in… the vast majority of which being sports and anime/furry porn.
I’ve found I don’t really subscribe to communities to see a feed of just those. I’d rather see EVERYTHING and curate the feed reductively. Kinda seemed sisyphean at first, but my ‘All’ is fairly personalized now, so I’d recommend that approach to anyone who browses All frequently.
None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.
Mostly porn communities that I dont vibe with or are what I would consider to be disgusting, like incest, sounding, and farting. Ive also banned a lot of furry communities, not because I dislike it but because its also a lot of porn. Anything AI is banned with prejudice. I have a lot of foreign ones banned but I realized I could just mute them instead, oh well.
Oh my god, soooooo many. An unreal amount of dreck here. The worst part is that I’ve blocked all that stuff and now it’s mostly terrible world news. And so, to answer your question, no it hasn’t made the experience here better. I guess my interests don’t jive with the main niches around here.
I think I’ve blocked over 500 communities. Not because they’re all bad, mostly because it’s stuff I’m not interested in.
Do not feel bad about blocking communities you’re disinterested in. It cuts out the noise for you.
There’s a lot of freaky porn out there that I don’t want to see
Too many to list but in general:
Non-English
Politics
Anime
AI gen
Ball sports
NSFW/Cosplay
Furryi had to block the main politics one, because they start shilling for israel low-key.
Pretty much all non English/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian instances. No point having them in my feed if I can’t read them.
For Lemmy, kbin and piefed you can specifically choose which language posts you want to display if anyone doesn’t want to go with instance blocking.
Yeah, but if the community doesn’t properly set their
packagelanguage, they may end up breaking through depending on your setup.So many good communities don’t have a language set, either because they didn’t bother or they are multiligual.
