Why?
Nothing, but i have a word blocklist on trump, elon and ice. So that way I am up to date because some stuff still comes through, but not knee deep in the fascism takeover of the US (at least on Lemmy 🥲)
Mostly just sports communities. They tend to post a lot, and I just don’t really care about sports outside of Motorsport. If Arsenal has some insane game, or gets a great player signed, I’ll hear about it at work sooner or later, either from coworkers or a customer. I would say the only big sport that doesn’t apply to between those played in North America and Europe is probably cricket, cause nobody has time for it. Then again, haven’t seen a single cricket post, either.
I can stay current on what’s going on with the NFL, NBA, MLB, Premier League, rugby and even hurling, just by showing up to work, so there’s no real benefit to seeing it here, too.
Also, AI communities get blocked pretty much as soon as they pop up in my feed. The novelty of “Hah, that’s crazy that a computer made this image” has long since worn off, and I have no interest in seeing the umpteenth iteration of some AI take on art or photography.
I don’t have the option ticked to show nsfw content, and people have generally been good about tagging such content, so I haven’t had to block anything there.
All of lemmy.ml
A bunch if german communities. No hate to the Germans, I just don’t understand your deeply ridiculous language
Sports and Linux.
I have no interest in sports.
I also have no interest in Linux, I have installed and used Linux around ten years ago. If and when I need Linux I’ll just go to the mainstream internet or just unblock them and join. But for now no.
Have LꝏꝏꝏTs communities blocked , but noteworthy types :
- Most (meme|shitpost|news) communities . Oversaturation from seemingly homogenous threadiverse userbase
- (Meme|shitpost) content dœsn’t lend itself well to conversations (which’s what am here for) IMO . If I wanted those I’d just browse tumblr oar some thing
- Prefer getting my news elsewhere
- “(Cringe|Trashy)”-adjacent communities . Thankfully not many exist
- All (.*)(girl|babe)s NSFW communities , don’t like seeing photorealistic imgs of conventionally attractive women
As far’s instances , only one can remember 🏧’s hilariouschaos bcus TERF community on there I think
- Most (meme|shitpost|news) communities . Oversaturation from seemingly homogenous threadiverse userbase
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games I don’t play but which tend to clutter All by being highly posted/active (Hololive, Honkaistarrail, etc.)
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“stop drinking” related comms because they were too frequent in the feed, I already stopped drinking because I’m too old and cranky to deal with hangovers, and a lot of them were giving me creepy cult vibes tbh
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“witchesvspatriarchy” and related because I find that kind of humor snobby and grating
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a few other women/feminism related comms. I’m a lesbian who struggles with internalized misogyny, I’ll fully admit that. But some of these posts are unhinged misandry and a lot of them are just depressing to read and probably not good for my mental health
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All of the trans communities.
I don’t like their patronizing, berating attitude coupled with censoring anyone who might raise a valid point against them.
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I don’t have any. I instead subscribe to as many communities I find interesting and set my feed to only my subscriptions. I rarely venture out to All and only do when I want to discover more communities.
I use the opposite strategy, which is what I did on Reddit: browse All, and block everything that isn’t interesting. Sports teams, shows I didn’t care about, other niche communities. I prefer this approach because I like finding content I never would have thought to subscribe to.
I alternate. I have my own curated list of subscriptions, which is mostly serious reading, so I’ll spend some time perusing that.
And then I move to All and enjoy the randomness, sometimes adding communities to my subscriptions, sometimes banning subs or content creators if they annoy me.
I’ve found this is exactly the best way to enjoy Lemmy.
That’s what I do, too. However, I did block some communities, mostly meme- or politics related, so I can briefly browse the “all” category once in a while.
Personally I block anything that ends with “moe” I’m not really into thirst traps and anime thirst traps feel like the bottom of an already unwanted barrel.
Oh yeah, forgot about this. Each time I rotate accounts I’ve got to go on an anime blocking spree. Nothing against anime but the fans are creeps.
Thankfully you can block a handful of users and then you won’t get included in their new perversions.
I also switched to blocking users who post Moe content. I’d be happy to chill with them in the comments, but it was just too much content for my feed.
Before I changed tactics, I was keenly aware of each time one of our top contributors discovered a new anime.
It was funny for awhile, but got to be too much effort to keep currating my feed.
I appreciate everyone who adds content here. Some just isn’t for me.
Thiccmoe aren’t even thicc.
Whack-a-Moe. Seems endless. I point to that as a main reason lemmy will never gain popularity.
Since it might help your feed, I’ll share something that worked for me.
I realized that we have a relatively small number of very active Moe champions who post to a variety of topical Lemmy’s. I switched to blocking those users, and it cleared Moe content from my feed.
I came to the same realization eventually! Pro tip!
This is why i think subject tagging for communities makes a lot of sense. I want to remove anime, k-pop, video games, sports, region-specific, tv/movie, “anarchy”/“everything sucks” and plenty of other entire categories from my “All” feed, but blocking is a never-ending effort.
Great idea. I’d love a “No German” switch.
Es gibt kein Entkommen!
Best we can do is a “No, German” switch.
Den erwischen wir!!
When I got started on Lemmy, browsing All, I was stunned by all the Furry/Brony crap. Blocking that made All more feasible… but man, it was a lot!
Hexbear is blocked for me.
hexbear,ml, lemmygrad all filled with nasty people.
Aka all the instances that make lemmy worth hanging around for.
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The tankie triad and anything anime related. I swear anime bros make a new comm for each of their favorite characters in a specific outfit
Too many to list but in general:
Non-English
Politics
Anime
AI gen
Ball sports
NSFW/Cosplay
Furryi had to block the main politics one, because they start shilling for israel low-key.
Mostly just subjects I don’t have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.
