Why?
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.
trans, furry, and mental health communities
I’m surprised you have anything left to view on Lemmy.
I’m really just here for the memes and tech/science stuff, and the occasional interesting discussion
Well, memes and tech are certainly also in abundance.
All of lemmy.ml
A bunch if german communities. No hate to the Germans, I just don’t understand your deeply ridiculous language
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 🥲)
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.
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!
Thiccmoe aren’t even thicc.
Blocked most furry and trans communities. I’m not against it, not into it and its overrepresented here for obvious reasons.
None. I can handle other ideas and opinions just fine.
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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 the non-English ones. If I can’t read it then there’s no point to having it clutteting things up.
Also all the porn. That’s not what I’m here for.
So much furry content, holy smokes.
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!
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.
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.
They mostly don’t have the language set at all, like 99% of all posts and the reason is nobody cares.
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…
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
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.
Blocked furry and most trans stuff. A ton of the porn that littered my feed. That’s probably 75% of my blocklist. Many non-english communities, though I’ve kept a few to run through translators just to see what’s going on in other countries. Communities with high post counts of memes that spam my feed. Any /c with no interest in good faith discussion.
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!!
