In my personal opinion, this site is completely unusable without heavy content filtering. Just being picky about which communities to follow and users to block isn’t enough.
That said, I realize I might be in the minority on this, so I’m curious what others are doing to preserve their sanity.
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At this point it might make more sense just to have a home feed
But then you can’t find new communities
People share communities all the time and there are communities dedicated to discovering new communities like /c/newcommunities@lemmy.world or /c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
I find it easier to occasionally exclude a community I’m not interested in than have to hunt for ones I am
Which is a pretty good advertisement for the fediverse actually. I’d love to know how many of those thousand blocked communities are still active, but not enough to bother working it out.
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Just browse the list of communities once in awhile. Pretty easy to do.
Congratulations, you’ve just earned yourself a block from @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world.
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I’ve similarly blocked all the communities I’m not interested in - to the point that my All feed is basically the same as my Subscribed feed, just with more memes on it.
Still, it’s not enough. I don’t want to block entire news communities, for example, just because I’m not into certain stories.
I even tried blocking users until I basically nuked my whole feed. That’s why I went back to just blocking the worst offenders and leaning harder on filtering out comments too.