3mo ago

Any recommendations to my blocklist?

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I don't mind politics, but I do mind:

Is there an easier way to curate content? Browsing "new" is like whack-a-mole.

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Feddit.org is bilingual and has a lot of users participating on English-language communities. So maybe better to block the individual communities if you don't want to decrease the userbase you can interact with.
- Oh really? I have only seen German communities coming from that. I initially thought it would be more than just that (considering .org) but after so many German posts, I just blocked the instance.
  Nothing wrong with the posts / communities itself, but I don't speak or read German so it's just noise to me
  
  There are a couple active English-speaking communities there, like /c/europe@feddit.org, but you're right that most content on the instance is in German. It's more that their userbase is also pretty active on other, English-speaking instances and I'm pretty sure that by blocking the instance, you won't see any of those posts and comments either.

Do you have to block communities? I thought you could just not join them to avoid their content.
- If you browse by "subscribed", you only see the communities you have joined. I sometimes browse "new" just to see what's happening now, and this shows all posts from any community (you haven't blocked). The sorting method "Active" is posts from 1-2 days ago and the content in "Hot" stays about the same throughout the day.
  
  Thank you, I did not know that.

lemmit.online, just contains automated reposts from Reddit.
- thanks, there's a reason I left Reddit!

It sounds like instead of 'disallow' list you want an 'allow' list feature...
- browsing by subscribed content works like that. I imagine it looks like I'm blocking everything and everyone but I'm just trying to curate my feed to make it as less noisy as possible

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