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?
I too browse like you and have blocked too much community to keep track of .
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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)
My blocked community list got significantly shorter when they introduced instance blocking. Got pretty tired of playing furry porn community whackamole.
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 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
I would love it if blocking all users from an inatance was available as a separate option from the users. I think the majority of my blocked users are from two instances.
Hexbear and lemmy.ml?
The fact that you can so easily guess which two instances proves it would be a useful tool to be able to block all their users.
Good to know! I didn’t want to kiss out on @kolanaki@yiffit.net comments, but now I won’t have to worry about it.
I did. Those usernames are too distracting and shout “look at me!”, so I’m filtering all of them.
I totally agree. Before I found the option to disable custom display names, I found that guy insufferable…2024 equivalent of xXxUSERNAMExXx. I don’t think I’ve noticed him since, though I’m sure I’ve read his comments
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
hexbear, lemmygrad and all news communities. Also turn off the NSFW post.
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.
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.
You can block communities?
Current version of Lemmy supports this natively
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
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.
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
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Only those with other languages that I do not understand and that somehow still show on my feed.
Im on kbin and it does not show a total but I block anything in languages I don’t know or that seems to be all memes or sports related but certainly not anime or porn.
Since you’re an anime enjoyer, I have a question: do you ever find that there’s a lack of variety in the art styles? I was pretty into it in the 90s/2000s but it seems like there’s a new anime every week that looks identical to the one before it
Yes but I think thats a bit the same with all media. There is still tons of relatively recent anime that is really unique like attack on titan or To Your Eternity or even spy family.
I saw the first two seasons of AoT and liked it a lot. It has a well-defined art style. My only “complaint” is that I had a hard time telling a few characters apart
Do you know the word/name for the art style I described in my other comment? I call it “kawaii anime” but I know that’s not right lol
Im sorta a poser when it comes to fandom. I like stuff but I don’t have the obsession that drives really getting into a lot of details. So I totally don’t know are styles and such. Its sorta like museums. I like to go and I like what I like but I don’t necessarily have great depth of knowledge of art style or periods or such. Its only due to memes that I know the getting sucked into a fantasy world has a name and I can’t even recall that atm. I mean I could google it right now but I just don’t care much that the particular term is X but if someone mentions it in a convo I will likely remember that what they are talking about with context clues. im thinking its like ikea with an s somewhere and i or something.
IKEA anime actually works really well for what I’m describing lol
Not necessarily bad but it is bland and unoriginal. The main difference for this analogy is that I wouldn’t consider IKEA to be childlike
lol. not my intention but cool. Maybe it will become a thing.
How many communities are on lemmy.ml?
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.
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
Unpopular opinion with no politics is like having an art subreddit which only allows images of blank white painted walls. Boring as fuck.
Eh I disagree unless you use the right wing definition of which is “politics is politics plus anything I don’t like”
There’s a ton of fun stuff to argue about.
I just personally don’t care to discuss trivial nonsense. Who gives a shit if someone likes their toast to be burnt?
It’s just a conversation starter. The comments in those posts about weird opinions can be pretty funny
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.
