Question to people who block communities, how many? What's your criteria? I, uhhh, block a measly 586 communities.
My criteria is as follows:
- nuked nearly all meme ones
- nuked meta ones for instances outside of mine, as I find my ingerence unfair
- nuked meta ones for countries I've no past with and no interest in making future with
- nuked soft porn / porn ones from .world
- nuked duplicate communities from instances which block many instances, so I get most diversity of opinions since they crosspost anyway
- blocked AI art communities
- generally anything related to AI, crypto and other topics I don't have any interest in
- blocking all/near-all image and video oriented communities, because I'm here for engagement, not browsing images and most definitely not for videos
I'm very pro curating my own experience, as you may see. It's quite slow, but at least I seldom get things I don't want to check out, apart from some posts from technology.
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I blocked a ton of non-english communities because my app doesn't let you block instances. Also like 4 different hackernews repost bot communities because I want to read that on HN.
I wish there was a better way to get English only
The new Lemmy version will allow instance blocking. I personally fear using it, because I fear it may nuke the users even when they speak English. I also wish I was less lazy and just used a translator, but, alas, I'm lazy.
Hopefully the instance block feature let you choose between blocking only the posts or block both the posts and comments from that instance.
Or just communities. IDK how they'll implement it, but I cannot imagine any use for myself where I don't risk losing good content, so I'll just keep selective blocking.
I am blocking 95 communities. Blocking all porn, all memes, communities for games/etc that I don't care about.
Surprised more people don't default to browsing by All and selectively removing things that don't appeal to you. This way you always open yourself up to finding new things and if you see something you don't like, you can just block it.
Every single sports related one. All the teams and leagues and general sports ones at professional or college level. I just could not care less.
Fuck sports ball
Seconded
Blocked (filtered, using sync) a lot of furry communities (you guys do you it's just not for me), anything trying to show me a ding-a-ling (again not the target audience), and a lot of meme/WWF/MMA communities. Besides that I like the diversity of posts that I get browsing hot and top 24 hours.
nuked nearly all meme ones
I filter by new and all instances frequently every single day and I'd wager that low effort meme content is about 80% or more of Lemmy by engagement. There are far more posts created that aren't memes that nobody comments on or upvotes, but I consider those basically dead content.
Perhaps some day people will engage with more critical thinking topics, but until then blocking all memes is basically blocking Lemmy.
Well, you've just engaged with a non-meme content, so there's a start. :)
I'm definitely trying. This is not how I expected things to turn out on Lemmy. I tried starting with more high effort content and establishing a community for actual discussion, but lemmy world admins killed that and it hasn't recovered here on lemmy.ml.
Honestly that was a pretty big blow to my predictions of the future of Lemmy as a place to actually discuss more serious things with people. I hope Lemmy succeeds and does well as a place to actually talk to people, but I worry it is going to mainly be a place to repost memes for awhile until it gets smaller and smaller and eventually fades from anyone's thoughts.
You're the guy who ran science fiction on lw, right? That was a shame.
Zero.
I'm subscribed to ~120 comms so I usually browse by "Subscribed". Browsing by "All" is infrequent enough to not bother me with local comms, plus contrariwise to plenty posters here I don't mind seeing content in multiple languages.
Most communities from LemmyNSFW since I still want to see non-porn NSFW content.
I have an alt account for that purpose.
0.19 will make that way cleaner with the ability to block instances at the user level.
0.19 will make that way cleaner with the ability to block instances at the user level.
I probably won't use it, but it's great to see new QoL features that a lot of folks ITT will enjoy.
Oh man, probably over 100. I’m not into trans/gay/etc lifestyle so while I have no hate for our friends there, just not relevant to me. I block all the random celeb hot pix, any tankie shit, most of the 4chan-ish subs, anything right wing, any of the subs starting with “okbuddy_”, and some of the bigger non-English subs as I just cant read the content. I haven’t actually run into too much that was objectionable, just not relevant for the most part.
Edit: also furries and muscle women- who knew they were so popular!
Can you tell me what are the gay communities active enough you've noticed them? I didn't see a single one. :(
I see way more furry communities than gay communities.
I'm not a furry, I just wish I'd see any gay posts at all. I assume .ml has no gay content as it blocks nsfw instances and I assume gay topics may be on nsfw instances. :/
lgbtq_plus seems pretty active.
I've blocked quite a lot, seems easier than subscribing to individual communities. Blocked most meme and porn communities, and I just straight up block bot reposting accounts
Any politics and porn servers or communities get blocked.
I have blocked about 80 communities myself. Among them are:
- the worst tankie communities, though I really try to keep an open mind towards the hexgrad users
- all the furry, hentai, and other porn I really don’t care for (there is always another though)
- pcm, they were borderline alt right on reddit already.
- all the lgbtq communities, it’s just not relatable to me. But I’m glad they are thriving for the ones who can relate
- spamming communities in languages I don’t understand
- ai generated content and art
- that really annoying bot that reposts tons of reddit content
AI, porn, and non-english. Keepin it simple.
I've blocked about 20 communities. Mostly politics and porn. It's pretty rare that I don't browse by "subscribed" anyway.
About a hundred probably. Almost exclusively porn. I'm fine with porn, but I want to use All without scrolling past 10 pairs of tits to see one normal post.
And a handful of just annoying communities. The ones reposting Reddit content, US politics, crypto stuff, that sort of thing.
Why don't you subscribe to communities you're interested in instead and only browse those? Blocking that many communities sounds like a lot of work.
Why'd I choose to miss out on content I don't know of? Hell no.
I didn't even know users can block communities…
