What communities or instances do you have blocked to make your Lemmy experience more enjoyable?
What communities or instances do you have blocked to make your Lemmy experience more enjoyable?
Why?
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!
Mostly just subjects I don't have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.
None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.
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.
No instances, but I've blocked 868 communities so far. Either languages I don't understand or topics I'm not interested in... the vast majority of which being sports and anime/furry porn.
I've found I don't really subscribe to communities to see a feed of just those. I'd rather see EVERYTHING and curate the feed reductively. Kinda seemed sisyphean at first, but my 'All' is fairly personalized now, so I'd recommend that approach to anyone who browses All frequently.
Oh my god, soooooo many. An unreal amount of dreck here. The worst part is that I've blocked all that stuff and now it's mostly terrible world news. And so, to answer your question, no it hasn't made the experience here better. I guess my interests don't jive with the main niches around here.
I have the lemmy.ml instance blocked, some non-English speaking and anime communities blocked.
Politics and memes.
Social media is a terrible source for accurate, unbiased information. And memes are low quality content that shouldn't be consumed by anyone.
I think I've blocked over 500 communities. Not because they're all bad, mostly because it's stuff I'm not interested in.
Do not feel bad about blocking communities you're disinterested in. It cuts out the noise for you.
Almost all anime and a lot of the ai communities
ZeroBytes.monster I don't want a reddit bot in my feed. I wanted a clean break during the reddit 3rd party app backstabbing.
Mostly porn communities that I dont vibe with or are what I would consider to be disgusting, like incest, sounding, and farting. Ive also banned a lot of furry communities, not because I dislike it but because its also a lot of porn. Anything AI is banned with prejudice. I have a lot of foreign ones banned but I realized I could just mute them instead, oh well.
When I scroll all, I block anything that doesn’t relate to my tastes. It would be best if there was a way to block certain topics.
Anything involving AI image generation
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.
Religion
Hexbear, AuthLeft
Advertising communities
Political parties
"General", unspecified non-meme communities (nowherelsetopost etc)
The short answer is anything I don't like or want to see. The shorter answer is .ml.
- A spider community because I ain't about that life as an arachnophobic person.
- 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.
- Entomology because I don't fuck with bugs.
- A few different AI communities because I try to avoid AI if possible.
- 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.
Meme communities, anime, sports, furries, hexbear, moe, and tankie instances. I just block these categories to maintain All as a viable browsing option. I want to be able to subscribe to a limited array of communities while keeping up with trends and events.
All the Sports and racing stuff. They're really spammy and i just don't care about sports.
So far none.
Only individual users.Lemmy.today and hilariouschaos.com for the same reason
I don't block much but I do have a couple of filters that do good work on Piefed.
the extremist ones and the porn ones. include triad, i dont block bahaj one, as i have no issues with it.
All communities with AI generated content.
Just checked and it's a whole bunch of nsfw ones (I don't block all nsfw, but there are a lot of weird communities in that category that I don't need to see), a bunch of German ones because they were taking over the feed at one point, and theonion (which I don't really find funny anymore)
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.
*meme*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).
Some foreign language communities don't seem to have their language marked so they still show up despite my language settings, so I blocked them to make things easier.
Mostly murican politics, politics memes, trump/musk stuff (it's like playing whac-a-mole), some anime and furry stuff.
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.
None yet! Are there any I should be wary of?
Because you get it back in the form of services and perks.
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
None, although there's an ADHD sub that pops up often that is annoying and ive comsidered blocking it
