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?
336 apparently, I did not realize I blocked that many.
How many communities are on lemmy.ml?
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 kiss 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 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.
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
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 have two bot accounts and five servers
No communities though?
I have 42 users blocked. Mostly bots but some spammy accounts, too.
Actually I think I do, but I’m not seeing them in the sync app. I’ve definitely blocked porn communities. Bots too.
A crap ton of them - too many to count quickly. My intent was to sort by subscribed, but we’re still getting a lot of new communities, so I mostly sort by new, and block communities I have no interest in or that spam a lot. The most common categories are gay porn, bot-generated content, and overly prolific meme communities.
bot-generated content, and overly prolific meme communities.
What, do you want to relive Reddit’s Greatest Hits 20 different communities??
Yeah, kind of dumb. I didn’t mind it as much if it’s a community for posting pics or videos, as long as the bot isn’t dumping huge numbers of posts. What really annoys me is when they do it for communities that are more discussion based. They were doing it in AITA and other question-oriented ones. It makes no sense: someone asks a question on Reddit and people here are going to answer it?
Hooollyy shit I totally forgot about those and had the exact same complaint! If I’m remembering correctly, at least some of those communities were from bots not flagged as bots. So you had people replying because they didn’t know…
They were some of my early blocklist entries for sure
Yep, mine too. If I could take care of the problem by blocking the account, I did that, but a lot of times I ended up blocking the community.
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’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.
I’ve blocked over 1000 communities.
How would you describe your blocklist? Like what categories and what ratio between them?
All things I’m not interested in that tend to fall into these categories:
- hyperlocal geographies
- sports
- specific games
- specific hobbies
- programming languages and other technologies
- porn
- meme groups about subcultures I’m not a part of
- shitposting
- subs where it seems everything is cross posted to another sub
Edit: I’ve probably also blocked a handful of obscurely named subs that have no description or shit descriptions. Like a sub called grobslafup and the description is “everything related to grobslafup!” As if people know what the obscure thing is but don’t know that a sub titled after it is going to be related to it. 🙄
Now I want to know more about grobslafup
I actually have no idea–I primarily use Eternity, and I’m not sure whether the “block community” button is a Lemmy thing or an Eternity thing.
But mainly I’ve blocked bot-post communities, furry stuff, and anything else that vomits dozens of posts in a row (I’ve got NSFW blocked, so c/all is pretty manageable).
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
Leaving a comment feels weird, too. There’s not even an OP to talk to, so it’s like shouting into the void.
In principle, I do get the need for these communities. Like, if you just want capybara pictures to show up in your feed, then you don’t need many comments on those.
But these bots usually spit out far too many posts for my liking, so more often than not, I do block them anyways.Bot-driven communities feel like ads as opposed to communities with bots that post, say, game patch notes automatically. I want there to be a reason something is posted other than to fill a void
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
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
All those fucking Moe ones. Don’t think I can see that on jerboa, maybe 10?
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
My point is that lots and lots of us didn’t really love that kind of stuff at the time. It’s just that those kinds of jokes stand out, along with race jokes, because they’ve aged so badly.
It must suck to be a “normal” boomer in the internet getting lumped in with the shitheads of your demographic. Hell…you’re the ones who pushed the civil rights movement.
It’s a shame your generation (not you specifically, of course) fucked the world up to the point that every generation after you looks back in disgust and doesn’t even consider the things you did right.
What sucks is that people attribute stuff like that to the whole generation; we get painted broadly as very right wing conservatives who are against any social programs. But look at things like the age demographics of the last couple presidential elections. Yes, you’ll see that more older people voted conservative than liberal, but not by a large margin. You’ll also see that, though more younger folks voted liberal, that margin wasn’t huge either. And in our society, it’s not unusual for folks to get more conservative as they get older (the opposite for me personally, but it’s often true), so it won’t be surprising if younger folks today vote more conservatively when they’re older.
Huge hunks of boomers are fighting for equal rights for all people, are big proponents of social programs that help those who are disadvantaged, advocate for universal healthcare, and all sorts of other progressive issues. Large numbers of younger people are against those things. The fact that total numbers might tip one way or another doesn’t change that, and applying a stereotype to millions of people is always wrong.
I think it’s really the policies pushed by the politicians that your generation voted in that led to the boomer hate. My generation will surely be remembered for Trump just like yours for Reagan
29 communities, mostly news. I’m here for memes, not links to articles.
Also a few atheism communities, because I’m not a fan of seeing posts bashing my religion from a community where the rules forbid me from saying anything in its defense.
To be clear, I’m not trying to say it’s unfair for atheism communities to have those rules. Your community, your rules. But if I’m seeing those posts, I’m going to be bothered, and if I respond, I’m going to break the rules and bother everyone else. Better to not see it in the first place.
In the same way, I’d expect atheists to block a Christian community if it were trending - though I’d be willing to meet them in constructive debate in such a community if the rules permitted it.
Blocking is a community is how I control my personal feed, it’s not a condemnation.
I’m “atheist” but I can’t stand the atheism subs. There’s just not much to talk about. You could replace them with one post titled “religion sure is stupid, right??” and nothing would be lost.
Makes sense. You don’t exactly have atheist scriptures to study and discuss, and you’re not going to have any atheological discussions on how nature reflects the lack of a god.
Well, there can be some things to talk about, like if you live in a country that’s mostly religious, then how did you find a romantic partner, or how did you “come out” to your parents etc…
But the “Religion, am I right?”-posts are easy to make and will naturally get a lot more upvotes than a discussion post, so the latter get buried, unfortunately.
Yep. I don’t like calling myself an atheist because I can’t stand emphatic atheists. I’m not gonna define my identity by what I don’t believe and I could not care less about what other people believe as long as what they practice isn’t harmful. If religion brings you joy and you aren’t oppressing someone in it’s practice, why should I have an opinion on it? You do you!
