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.

  • alokir@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 year ago

    Communities I usually block if I see them more than once:

    • cities/towns (outside of mine)
    • porn
    • US politics
    • sports teams
    • tankies and neonazis
    • meme communities that flood my feed
    • meme communities of other countries
    • most Reddit repost communities
    • communities that focus mostly on negativity (making fun of people, ranting, artificial drama, "haha these people are stupid" etc.)
    • countries that only post in a language I don't understand
    • communities with too many stereotypical Reddit users where I can already predict what 80% of the comments will be (commenting the same 10 jokes, only allowing the same opinions, referencing old Reddit posts etc.)