How many communities do you have blocked?
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
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.
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?
No communities, but I blocked the whole Lemmy NSFW instance because I am not into porn and autoplay GIFs in my feed is not to my liking. (you all do you I just don't care for it).
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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
The subreddit is really shit though. I've had posts removed where it wasn't political, but got removed because "UHHHH IT NO AN UNPOPULAR OPINION! UHHH!!"
When, just gazing at the front page of the subreddit, you'll find dozens of shit that were allowed to be posted that contradicts the entire meaning of the subreddit itself at every second.
The problem is that the moderators just cannot handle it when someone truly has something spicy of an unpopularopinion to express that isn't gender, race or politically related.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thought there would be more. But I block em as I see em.
The irony about "enough musk spam" is they're the ones spamming the most.
From what I've heard, that was the idea behind the Enough Musk Spam community, that the spam could be posted there and people could block it.
But yeah, it's a bit counterintuitive...
The second-to-last one made me actually laugh out loud. What the fuck is that title lol
Aboringdystopia is one of those communities that doesn't resemble its namesake at all. The subreddit had rules to match the theme but the Lemmy equivalent is just the same news articles of shitty things happening that appear on all the other news communities. They're so lax about what constitutes "a boring dystopia," it feels so lazy to me
The tankie trio, and a load of gay/trans stuff I have no interest in seeing.
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.
28, all the gay porn, yiff/furry, and male anatomy ones that I've caught while browsing c/all.
Does the app you use let you block posts from an instance while not blocking the comments? If so, something to consider for yiffit.
the yiffit users out in the wild are the funniest ones to me.
Blocking Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Lemmy.ml fixed 99% of my issues with this place.
Oh right, I think I blocked those too.
I browse all, but I've only blocked a couple of dozen. Every one is just a language I don't understand or American football (I'm just not a fan). But I have a "disable NSFW" button on my client so I use that if I'm in public.
I don't mind seeing things in my feed that aren't my thing as long as they don't take over.
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?
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.
Zero. I don't need to block communities as I only browse subscriptions.
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 just watch subscribed communities. To me that's just too much noise. So I haven't blocked any.
How do you know what to sub to? I've found Lemmy's search to be even worse than reddit's due to federation causing tons of "duplicate" communities
Idk. There have been some sites recommending the alternative to a subreddit. I scrolled through that. And put keywords for my interests into the search bar. Occasionally I spend some minutes scrolling through the 'All' feed and subscribing. Or when somebody links a crosspost. Over time I've also unsubscribed from lemmy.ml communities because I don't agree with their moderation practices. Found alternatives to that. And I've unsubscribed from most of the news communities, because reading about world politics is weighing me down and this place (Lemmy) is a lot about discussing the news.
I'm subscribed to roughly 100 communities now. Some of them are duplicates or a wasteland, that's just how it is. But I like that this way, my feed is somehow tailored to my interests. And there is no doom-scrolling any more, which I like too.
If a community has reddit in the title. I block.
Don't want to see people bitch about a site you don't use eh?
I've blocked 15 instances for overall spam/trash comments and 210 individuals subs so far.
Furrys, anime, spam, porn, alt-right, etc.
I don't think I've seen any far right stuff but I'm on .world which probably defederated already
It's hard to say. I use a keyword block that auto-blocks any community with "meme" in its title. So it could be dozens, or even hundreds. I've never counted. I have similar keywords for things I'm not interested in like "waifu", "anime", and most stuff adjacent to those topics.
492, apparently. Mostly bot communities, (US) politics, anime and tons of communities for specific sports teams, TV shows, games, technologies etc..
Well another commenter just told me that blocking sports and anime is equivalent to an echo chamber so we both better unblock them to have a healthier worldview /s
I forgot about the game subs in my estimate...I've got a lot of those blocked. I just don't care about patch notes for games I don't play.
A lot, I've blocked all political, non-english, and anime communities that show up
3, i don't remember why i blocked them
You probably blocked Risa for the same reason I did....wayyyyyy too many posts. It was half my feed before I blocked it.
Science_memes is basically just a generic meme sub and is very close to hitting my blocklist for the same reason
Entomology...I don't even have a guess. Are you grossed out by bugs, maybe?
You are very good at guessing
I exclusively browse All and have blocked 615 communities and 2 instances.
Is there a way to block non English content? The last time I looked into this, you could choose to only see English content, but that would also filter out all content which didn't have a language specified. This made the filtering unviable because most content doesn't specify the language and most content is in English.
I set my language and don't see a lot of non-English communities but I'm not sure if those two things are related. I don't mind filtering them out, it's no more than a couple per week
You can choose both English and "unspecified." You'll still see some non-English stuff when people don't set the language, but it will filter out all of the posts where the language is set to something else.
Thanks, will try that!
I've basically blocked all meme communities.
I'm only here for the memes
I just counted it yesterday. 500 communities (for a large part porn, anime and foreign ones) and 550 users.
Still waiting for someone to come up with uBlock filter to also block threads linking to specific websites.
I have that feature in the app i use. Sync.
Yeah many apps have features natively that I need to come up with workarounds for. I personally just don't want to use an app for something I can also do in browser. The less apps I have on my phone the better.
Wow that's a lot of users!
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.
About 65 communities. It's either due to them being too active so they flood my feed, or if most of the content is ragebait (e.g. politics based)
I don't blacklist.
I whitelist, view Subscribed rather than All.
What I want to go hunting for new communities to subscribe to, I use lemmyverse.net, which can see all of the communities on the Threadiverse, not just the ones that someone on my instance has subscribed to.
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:
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. 🙄
336 apparently, I did not realize I blocked that many.
It adds up!
I have two accounts. One has all the more serious news type stuff blocked and the other is unfiltered. Its nice to be able to take a break from reading about war and disease. I get most of that news from Mastadon anyway.
That's a good idea. I've blocked so much almost all I get is depressing news. They need to let you export blocked lists. Mines so long it's probably worth something.
Wait, you're blocking porn, sports, and anime?
Those are the fun parts...
Nope, porn sport and anime bore me to tears... all blocked, plus a bunch of hyper-regional communities (sorry, Seattle, I'm in Europe, so the internal affairs of your city have little interest to me). I also had to block c/India because it kept getting pushed into my /all list.
I actually really like the regional communities lol
I know a lot about Bedfordshire now!
Yeah, same about c/india. It kind of annoys me, because I would have been interested in some of their culture, food etc., but it was just a ton of posts and mostly about politics...
Blocking regional communities is one thing, sure.
I was partially joking, but anime, cartoons, sports, and some tasteful/ethical NSFW are all topics I'm hella interested in but don't get much play here. There's basically no boxing/MMA/basketball/football here.
Each day i feel too normie for this place
I'm not into the skinny models that most porn features and a lot of irl porn comes with a host of ethical issues,
Porn: there's so much of it on here. If I didn't block most of it, it'd be half my feed
Sports: I simply do not give a shit about the stats of some cricket game I didn't know about
Anime: I'm frankly just sick of the art style that so much of it shares. I don't dislike anime as a rule but for a lot of shows, you could drop any character into another anime and they'd fit right in. And on top of that, I can't stand the hyper sexualization of immature female characters that is so prevalent in the genre. I don't think middle schoolers are hot so I don't like when "sexy" characters act like one
Sure! Your reasons are valid and I'm not asking you to defend them.
I certainly don't like everything in any of those categories either. I've got slices I'm into, but yeah, the broad categories are def part of my interests.
Interesting. Here on lemmy.ml, none of the porn shows up, because I guess, it's blocked at the instance level. Unfortunately, I do still get horny anime posts every so often...
Got 20 communities blocked and coincidentally 20 users blocked 🙃
302
Whatcha got on there?
Porn, anime, sports, a bunch of video games I don't play, and some spammy or obnoxious communities too. Oh, and foreign languages I don't speak (until we get built-in translation)
I also browse exclusively all. I only bother blocking the non-English and porn communities. Looks like that's 315, for me.
Yeah I have a similar strategy
Over a thousand, for sure? I hate memes. I'm just scrolling light conversations. No deep politics or debates. No depressing news, anime, etc
The worst part about meme subs is that they have a decade of subreddits to repost from. I know...insert xkcd comic about being the lucky 10,000...but personally I've seen all those reposts of overused templates 100 times over the years and don't want to see them again
700 at last count
I block all communities based around a single sports team and most sports, also any based around a geographic location smaller than national-level. Anything based around a state, city, town etc is always negative.
I kinda like those regional communities for some reason!
You can block communities?
Yes. Not sure what app you use but for me I click the dots in the corner of a post and pick Block Community and Block User
It works on Jerboa
Current version of Lemmy supports this natively
I too browse like you and have blocked too much communities to keep track of .
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 mostly use All as well. I have the following blocked:
Meme communities are "content" in the worst sense of the word. No substance, just sludge
About 330. A crap ton of porn stuff, furry, bondage, etc. Several non-English communities. Operating system related stuff like Linux or android. A few “normal” communities that are on instances that don’t allow much dissent or contrary opinion.
over 30. I personally prefer more serious discussion because I'm a dork. I'm not into most sports, jokes, video games or other whimsical stuff. I like some of that stuff IRL, but I consider the internet primarily of use for deeper discussion of topics that most people might not necessarily have an interest in. Like NASAs nuclear powered project Orion spacecraft in the 1960s.
Peoples eyes normally glaze over when I talk about that stuff offline, but there are billions online, and usually someone else finds that niche stuff as interesting as me.
It would be nice if you could select which topics interest you rather than having to block every community that does not.
Niche communities are what makes the internet great.
It would be nice if you could select which topics interest you rather than having to block every community that does not.
I mean you kinda can do exactly that through subscriptions. Sub to the places you like and browse your main feed instead of All