Why?

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Instances:

    Communities: Many. But basically these types:

    • Anything sports
    • Anything anime
    • Any primarily in a language I do not understand
    • Localized for a place I have not and probably never will visit
    • nsfw stuff that doesn’t appeal to me
    • ai

    Keywords off the top of my head:

    • (trump|vance|musk|putin) (says|claims|threatens|promises|plans|wants|admits)
    • bitcoin
    • Hawk tuah
    • slams
    • blasts
    • mrbeast
    • pewdiepie
    • yiff
    • furry

    Links:

    • Breitbart
    • tiktok

    Users: Not that many, really. Vatniks, bots, and people beyond redemption, mostly.

    • HuskerNation@lemmy.zip
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      18 days ago

      I have to ask why sports? Surely there is some sport you are interested in.

      I’ve recently discovered I’ve been lying to myself on baseball, and how much I loved the game as a kid and I regret not pursuing it after highschool all because of the mlb strikes in the 90s. I just stopped watching and participating. For me and a lot of people during that time I guess the mindset was, I work in the heat all day, not just for 3 hours and those players are bitching about the millions they make aren’t enough. There’s some truth to that but it completely blinded me to what I loved, now I’m to old to even compete in men’s slow pitch leagues

      Since my daughter is now playing softball, just playing catch and working with her on pitching has made me truly realize how great the game is, the feel of the glove, the sound of the bat cracking, or the sound of a fastball hitting a glove.

      For a game that’s been played as much for so long and there are still records being broken or first time for something is truly amazing.

      My interest in football is at a all time low, no longer follow NFL, but still love college even though it’s becoming a shadow of its former self.

      And volleyball is peaking because of my daughter as well

  • nomad@infosec.pub
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    18 days ago

    Blocked most furry and trans communities. I’m not against it, not into it and its overrepresented here for obvious reasons.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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        16 days ago

        Made me laugh, anyway.

        For those not in on the joke:

        Some of today’s best hackers are members of the furry community, and infosec.pub is a hub for Cybersecurity discussions.

          • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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            15 days ago

            I think you’re in denial.

            I challenge you (and anyone) to explore the furry community and not run across some excellent Cybersecurity content!

            • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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              15 days ago

              You don’t know me but I’ve been working in IT since before the internet had pictures, and actual credit hours in cybersecurity. Yes there is a subsection of furries that are into it, but you’re naive if you think that today’s best hackers even have a publicly accessible profiles.

              The intersection is interesting, but points more to the confluence of social media activity and subversive mindsets than any inherent proclivity for tech.

              I.e. people active on social media and therefore more well known are likely to have nontraditional values, and a certain percent are tech savvy that’s not too far off from the per-capita of any other terminally online subculture.

              More to the point, there are several subcultures that claim to have ‘today’s best hackers’, anons, modders, crackers, AI bros, cryptobros, kernel contributors, hell even freaking gacha bros have a legit claim.

              Being furry is no more an indicator than being into NFTs but people like to create narratives in their head that uplifts their chosen values, it’s just standard tribal monkey behavior

  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    The German ones who have the language set to English but only post in German. And the reason should be pretty obvious: They’re assholes who are intentionally clogging up the feed of another language.

    • simulacra_procession@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      18 days ago

      I actually really enjoy translating the whole comments pages sometimes if I get the meme through context clues, can’t tell if things get lost in translation or German humor is just really odd though…

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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      18 days ago

      They mostly don’t have the language set at all, like 99% of all posts and the reason is nobody cares.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Same. I block every instance and topic thats not in english. I cant read it and am not about to learn danish or german or whatever it is, so its an utter waste of my and lemmys time and bandwidth to show it to me. It should really be a standard feature.

  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Don’t have any instances blocked, but I block all the political, trans, furry, and mental illness communities. I wish people wouldn’t post political stuff to the YSK or general memes communities, there are 5 million better places to post that on lemmy, but it’s manageable.

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    The whole lemmynsfw instance. Don’t need that distraction here.

    Text filters - any keywords for news topics that I’ve had enough of (mostly reoccurring political topics)

    Weird meme shit from some strange community (or something that is just not my generation) - block the whole community.

    A poster who’s engaging in bad faith - blocked, never to be heard from again.

    I also set my mobile client (Connect) to mark posts that I’ve scrolled by as read, and to only show unread posts.

    I filter by All / Top 6 hours

    My experience on Lemmy is getting better and better, and I feel no need to doom scroll here.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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          16 days ago

          I have to make some assumptions about you here, forgive me for the parts I miss on.

          From your post history I feel you are asking this out of a sincere belief that rational debate over every topic leads to greater understanding and more positive outcomes. This is a noble belief but it is not born out by real world experience.

          I was there when 4chan got overrun by stormfront, I was there when Digg was overrun by powermods, I was there when reddit was overrun by MAGA and in EVERY one of those circumstances the initial crack that gave space to the bad actors that would come to subvert those platforms was the same mistaken belief you have; that open debate about every topic is acceptable and productive.

          There are some ideas that need to be deplatformed if the platform they are hosted on is to continue being a positive community. Humanity isn’t nearly as rational as you assume, and even if you personally feel yourself resilient to such platform manipulation, the vast majority of others are not.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I browse mostly by All/Everything, and it’s about an 70/20/10 split of non-English communities, sports communities, and anime communities respectively.

    The non-English communities are typically on non-English local instances (feddit.org, feddit.nl, jlai.lu, etc), but I don’t want to block those instances entirely because their users will still participate in other communities in English and it’s not their fault that I just don’t speak the language.

    The sports communities are just because I don’t typically care for that type of content. There are only a couple of sports I actively follow, and within those sports I don’t need to see communities dedicated to each and every specific team, so I just block to filter the ones I have no interest in.

    As for the anime, I actually do love anime, but a lot of them are communities for specific series I’m not into (which, if I’m being frank, are almost all just utter shit-tier waifu bait material), and others are very creepy “X”-moe communities which just make me feel gross when they turn up (and for those, blocking a single user was enough to get rid of 99% of that).

  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Anything Linux. We get it. You like Linux. If I wanted to be converted by religious nuts I’d still be talking to a whole side of my family.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    18 days ago
    1. A spider community because I ain’t about that life as an arachnophobic person.
    2. A bunch of minecraft communities because I completely ditched the game after they decided that Java players aren’t allowed to use adult words anymore on their private single player worlds and also because of the whole chat thing where all messages you send are linked to your specific account.
    3. Entomology because I don’t fuck with bugs.
    4. A few different AI communities because I try to avoid AI if possible.
    5. A community about dicks and dick pics. Not my cup of tea and I don’t feel like seeing them on any feed since I don’t blur NSFW images.

    Those are just a few. The rest are minor things or other communities that are the same thing essentially, but on different instances.