I block the gay, male and trans nsfw communities. Im fully in support for their existence but its simply not the way I swing when I browse /all. that being said I hope those communities thrive and do well cause its really refreshing to see content for all.
Too many. I wish Lemmy had post tags, it would make things easier. There are communities I would be interested in, if I had any tools to help see the things I care about.
I'm left with more politics than I'd like, but that's still preferable to anything I block.
Broadly speaking:
Memes
Anime, mostly due to all the anime girl communities
Sports
Foreign language communities if I really can't read anything, or I'm seeing too many posts in a row from them
Communities that aren't for memes but that are overrun with them. Sometimes if this is driven by a particular user I might block them instead
Communities with porn in the name
Am gonna get alot of hate for this but I block the atheism and atheism memes community if i remember correctly I Usally block weird stuff and nsfw stuff
All the "middrif/glasses/office/has limbs-moe" communities. All the porn, furry, and celebrity stuff. Also Star Trek and Linux. Not because they were bad, but I felt like that was all I was ever seeing. Also the sports/team communities.
Basically only the communities in another language, I don't have any issues with it, other than not wanting to translate news articles.
I do have one user blocker that is a troll or bot that is constantly posting political stuff, something like 30+ posts a day and nearly 80 comments a day, most of which are down voted to hell for obvious reasons.
Most anything that is US-centric, like US-only news or US-only politics. Mainly 2 reasons:
These threads are usually filled with heated, badly-moderated, frustrating discussions that lead nowhere.
I am not american, so I cannot even vote or affect things over there in any way, which just makes hearing about the chaotic state of things even more frustrating.
Thus I simply elect not to see those posts at all.
I also block most meme communities, since they otherwise fill the All feed. I can easily just go on incognito/log out to view the all feed with memes if I want a laugh (it's not that I dislike memes in general).
I have over 100 communities in my block list. I scroll through All and if I see a community over and over that I truly don't care about I just add it to the block list. Scrolling through All becomes a way to find new communities I like instead of being 500 posts I don't care about
languages I don't speak, just because I can't read them anyway ;-)
I'm banned from one, so I insta-blocked it.
if I can't comment, I don't wanna see it.
Hmm. I guess I block anything where communication isn't bidirectional. I have a television, so I don't need passive consumption of non-interactive content here.
Without Linux and trek you miss out on the best of Lemmy lol
I have blocked a range of conservative, rightwinger, hexbear and lemmygrad communities and instances, copious amounts of furry and anime porn, a great many LGBT communities which i am not the target user for (esp. Nsfw ones), some weird niche porn I really dont want to ever see on my feed, any communities that post ai generated content, and a bunch of others.
I block about 20 or so communities. A few are ideological ones that although I don't dislike/disagree with, I just don't want to hear about, a couple of the star trek ones, pretty much anything with "news" or "politics" in the name, since that tends to be very American centric, or in the case of world news, mostly things only Americans would care about, and I also blocked the Baldur's gate and helldivers communities because they were constantly in my /all feed a while ago. I also block lemmit.online or whatever it is (an entire instance), because it was just reposts of Reddit posts made by a bot which annoyed me when I wanted to search for things
My instance federates with Lemmy World, but because of some technical issue with server lag, we don't see posts from lemmy.world for about a week (posts in LW communities from non LW users do pop up, but upvotes and sometimes comments don't federate, so they won't appear in all unless I scroll really deep). That has the effect of essentially meaning I don't see any posts in LW communities in /all unless I sort by top month or new
I don't block any communities. I'm confused as to what the point of blocking communities is—are you browsing All? I only see posts from communities I'm subscribed to
I use lemmy in two ways:
Whitelist: show me my subscriptions and only those (subscribed)
Or blacklisted: show me everything else except the things I want to never see.
The latter lead me to this thread! It's two different experiences for me and I get a bit out of my interest bubble from time to time.
I pretty much only browse Lemmy on either /local new/top day, or /all new. But to be fair, I mainly only care about local communities (and I'm on a local instance), and memes. I think if I used a general purpose instance, particularly one without its own communities, I would probably used subscribed mostly
That's not personally something I've ever seen, but if you know of any good communities that add alt text to their memes, I would be interested in at least taking a look. It's not the memes themselves that I have the problem with, it's the fact that they are images, and I've never seen a single one described unless I've asked for it.
Anything porn or erotic stuff. And those communities dedicated to anime girls. Furry stuff, too. But I honest to god can’t remember why. Might have been a reflex.
Edit: I just checked and I also have a lot of lemmygrad communities from back before the defederation. Aaaaaaand I blocked anything AI “art”. List looks like this:
They are probably referring to the almost propaganda-esque two party politics that's permeated almost every major sub on reddit with useless "gotcha" memes.
All the tankie (far "left") shit. It's all either bad faith arguments (trolling), blatant propaganda or people who never bothered to fact check the propaganda.
They also create an inordinate amount of communities, had to use the "block instance" button a lot.
NSFW stuff also gets annoying after a while, but that seems less prevalent. (Just had to block one instance to get 99%)
Looking at my block list, the AI images and niece music stuff also got added at some point.
Tankie is far left? I thought it was far right. I admit I never really was sure, though.
If you're in America, do you see the entire rest of the g-20 as really far left? They do free healthcare and schooling in the g-20 but require almost as much tax as America, and I'm wondering if that makes them appear really far left given America's parties are center-right and far-right and everyone could have that as their point of view.
I mostly see tankies as an authoritarian (far right?) group pretending to be far left. Or at least that's how they brand it, even though they openly advocate for government confiscation of all property.
@Jezebelley@fedia.io Tankies and Far left mostly, I'm not American, so I also block a fair amount of America-centric communities, as I am just not a target of those
Anything US-politics and anything erotic, like almost every community from furry & anime instances. Also every non-English communities like feddit.de and some hobby communities I don't care for. Over time my feed got way cleaner and more fun to sift through.
Everything everyone else said + cuckold porn… that stuff that’s like ordinary boring porn with a description about how cool it is that you’re getting turned on by looking at someone’s imaginary wife.
What is non-communist "leftism" though? That's so vague. Unless you just mean non-communist anarchists I guess. I prefer the label "far-left" which I think is much more clear about meaning "communists and anarchists". "Leftist" is so vague and many radlibs seem to self-identify that way.
In /All I’ll block things that are going to always be in a language I don’t understand, or communities or users with extreme opinions that don’t offer what I consider to be reasonable counterpoints to my own beliefs. I don’t want an echo chamber but I will only engage with factual discourse that priorities compassion and humanity.
That's not true at all, for Linux users or vegans. The problem is that there are people some that feel a sense of superiority because they use Linux or are vegan and they just won't shut the fuck up about it.