How many communities are you blocking?
I'm up to 92 so far. A mix of non English, furry and hentai porn, and a few I just don't see the point of. I've got 6 or 7 users to, mostly bots that repost reddit content, and the piped link bot.
79 so far. If we could just block instances it would be so much better. OR if we had a distinction between NSFW porn and NSFW non porn. I just don't want porn in all, but I want to be able to discover new communities. And I don't want to block all NSFW because I enjoy some content that is marked as NSFW...I just don't want porn.
I would like to see a more finely grained nsfw filter. It could have categories like
Uhh that's all I can think of right now. Sometimes I like porn but I pretty much never want to see gore.
Yep, I got the same issue with blocking communities. It would be so much simpler to simply block pornlemmy and lemmynsfw than to block the myriad of communities that pop up
Exactly. Well put.
The connect app has the ability to block instances, which I find very helpful.
It's a fantastic feature, but the app just does not work well for me
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I had problems in the past where Connect would not populate random certain communities in my subscriptions, making it unusable as an app.
But I just redownloaded it and it appears to work now so I may play with this a bit more!
Edit: Wait nope. Now it seems to randomly glitch out often and delete ALL of my subscriptions. Maybe even worse than before...
Kbin allows you to do this, too
I want some stuff from lemmynsfw, just not furry or hentai. There is a yiff instance I wouldn't mind blocking, but Liftoff doesn't have instance blocking yet and that's the app I prefer.
I'm already blocking one user after roughly one month here.
He was in so many comment sections posting the same gif of a woman shitting.
Allowing users to post gifs was a mistake.
Is this the troll in sh.itjust.works? Thankfully all their stuff has been taken down before I've seen it
I don't remember the user . They'd just show up and respond to a top comment with that gif.
So glad you can block individual accounts.
Why would ANYONE do that? I literally don't wanna see that shit.
Zero.
I only view by subscribed. Who's out there trolling /all like a maniac?
Thats my current method of finding subs to subscribe to
That's literally all I do
A lot, mostly porn.
I'm not morally opposed to porn--but like 99.9% is aimed at straight men, or is the Disney-style furry art, and it does NOTHING for me. It's like being drowned in, I dunno...football communities. It's boring as shit and I Just. Don't. Care.
Exactly. I have absolute nothing against porn...I just am not interested and don't want it flooding and dominating my feed.
How are y’all seeing all this porn and furry stuff?
I don’t see any of it on my /all/ feed. There’s like, some girls and boobs and stuff occasionally, but it’s rare.
I wonder if it's instance specific. I can see the porn communities but no posts show up in them for me on my lemmy.one account.
I know initially porn was blocked lemmy-wide and has only recently started rolling out.
All the meme communities i can find. I dont need to see the same unfunny trash from reddit
Same here, no need for that unfunny trash
It was ok when there's only a few memes but it got old when it's every other post on "new".
I’d really like a feature to block communities by name match. Something like block all with a name that contains “meme” would be ideal.
I haven't blocked anything yet. I just signed up and I'm having trouble finding anything. My timeline is just the same few things repeating. How are you all seeing stuff you haven't subbed to?
Change your settings not to show read posts will probably help, too!
I'll look around in settings and try to find that, thank you!
You can use the "All" section of the instance you are using. You can also search for more communities from other instances using the Lemmy Community Browser.
Change the sort from active to topSomething
Basically anything political, anything not in English, and anything that starts with "Fuck xyz" because those communities are always toxic as hell.
My own philosophy is that if a community can only be described with negative values it will ultimately be a shitty community.
Anything that starts with anti- or fuck noun even if I agree with them is a instant block for me.
Dude I agree so much. Because I've fallen for the trap of thinking "oh yeah, I support being against that too, fuck it!"
But then slowly realize that even if I support being anti whatever, the community itself is just filled with negativity and hate. Justifiable or not, it's always an emotional drag, so yeah, best to just cut it out of my life, I don't need it.
i've been here for 15 minutes as a refugee from reddit. i immedialtely got the "fuck cars" (community?) in my feed. i did not like their dislike of cars.
Are you sure they weren't lovers of cars/cussy?
Zero blocks of any sort currently. I mainly use my subscribed feed, and while I do check all periodically, I have pretty tough eyeballs.
102 so far. It's mostly porn and the creepy hentai and furry stuff, some of the foreign language communities that get through the filters, and things like different sports, that I'm never going to be interested in.
As other people have said, I want to be able to browse through All to discover new content, but there's no point in seeing things that I'm never going to like.
That's my exact use case as well.
I have managed to block fuckcars 6 six times. Which is funny because every time I block it a new one pops up
We'll get to you eventually, there's no running away!
There’s plenty of running, but my car is faster.
None so far. At this point you might as well use the "Subscribed" tab. Whitelist instead of blacklisting communities.
I use subscribed most of the time, but enjoy local and all to see what else is out there. Just added !sciencefiction@lemmy.world today after finding it in all
I hope to get to that point soonish, but without a starting set of mostly interesting and inoffensive subs, building a collection of subscribed thingies is slow going. In the meantime, I'm scrolling all and blocking all the communities that seem mostly like a place to be angry.
you cannot whitelist anything if you don't go to /all
What? Why are you blocking communities so much? Just go through the list of communities and subscribe to what appeals you you then just browse subscriptions.
Not speaking for OP, but I do it because if you block communities they don't show up when you browse by "all". That's my preferred way to find new stuff (even if it's meme heavy). I like that it's as easy to hide communities I'm not interested in as it is to subscribe to new communities. It's a great feature.
Yep, this is why. I browsr All often to find new stuff and don't want to wade through all the other stuff.
Because new communities are still coming up and it may be relevant to us
None, I am open to all the filth humanity has to offer.
So you like all the beans then?
I'm not sure how to see, but I've blocked every non-english, sports, and state/town/city community that I've come across. I kinda wishcommunities had tags for stuff like that, cause theres a lot of languages, sports, and places to block out there
0 so far
So many anime and meme communities....
I just blocked Politics.
I felt that politics posts and discussions on reddit led to a separation of communities and echo chamber when platforms like that an Lemmy would ideally, be politics free.
It leads to a more friendly positive and inclusive place to be.
I think it would be impossible to keep politics off Lemmy so best I can do for now is filter it out.
A lot. The way I curate my feed is I subscribe to communities that I'm actively and significantly interested in and block all of them that I don't see myself ever wanting to check out. The rest are places that I might want to see, but maybe not all the time. This way I can filter by Subscribed to see a very focused feed and by All if I want some more randomness, but still without topics I'm really disinterested in.
That's very close to the way I do it.
You can choose to filter by language in the Lemmy ui directly. I selected English and Unspecified and it eliminated all the German, dutch and Philippine subs.
I have English and undefined selected, but still get some non English stuff.
Because if you don't select which language you're posting in, it gets posted as undefined. That's why in the settings it warns you not to unselect undefined, or you'll get almost no content.
This is useful thanks. Ive been blocking all the non English c/'s in All but I've now updated language in the Lemmy web settings. Cheers
On my single user instance All and Subscribed are the same so none.
I block some users who insulted me and weren't interrmested in discussiond. And I block threads.com
All of the nsfw communities, please provide me a complete list so I don't miss any of them.
You can block thembin your settings
All the meme ones that keep flooding /All. I‘m at around 7 so far?
I don't understand why you need to block anyone? I subscribed to what I like and that's all I have in my feed how are you getting these other communities?
I browse the local and all feeds to find new stuff. Local shows everything on the instance I am in, and All shows the local feed, plus communities on other instances that other people on Lemmy.World follow.
Ah gotcha, I guess I never check that tab.
I don't block anything.
I view subscribed day-to-day, and browse through All when I want to find new communities to sub to.
There's all kinds of shit in All that's not for me, and that's... how it's supposed to be?
I do this but I block stuff I won’t have any interest in ever like programmer humor, furry this and that, weird porn. I know I won’t ever subscribe or find anything I want to see in some communities
!reddit@lemmy.world is the only one. I don't care what Reddit does. I couldn't care less. I don't want to read about it.
It got a lot easier when I blocked whole instances. No more talkie, fashion, qanon level bullshit. No more weird and gross porn or AI porn.
Can't seem to find this option in Liftoff. Would love to block lemmygrad
You might try navigating to your instance's page in a browser and doing it there. I use Jerboa and have to do this for certain things.
Oh god yes would love to block lemmygrad too on Liftoff.
None, I just block some bots I don't find useful and that's mostly it.
None, so far.
I blocked all nsfw content. I haven't blocked any specific communities. It was just a check box when I joined lemmy.
Only a handful, if there is a way to block non English speaking ones.... I keep getting German or Dutch
I have English set as my language, but still get some foreign stuff now and then.
I just block mostly communities that are not in my mother tongue except this one and a few others
Also the adhd community, it reeks of virtue signaling
Upwards of 200, a lot of stuff I'm not interested in or "main" communities
Communities: Just 196 and languages I don't understand.
Instances: exploding-heads (probably a couple more to follow)
Lemmy.world blocked exploding heads at the instance level, so I don't need to worry about them thankfully. Before they were blocked by our admin I had pretty much every community of theirs I saw blocked.
I have blocked exactly 10 magazines, all non-English.
Been thinking about the Usenet days when everything was built out as a hierarchy like alt.sports.falcons.gogogo
It would be nice if it was still organized like this. It could make it easier to block entire hierarchies you’re not interested in, like sports.
That would be cool. I've never messed with usenet
Is there a way to look? I haven't exactly kept track.
It's listed in your profile
Only a handful, I tend to only block communities that I'm completely disinterested in, find offensive, or are in languages I don't speak.
Wow, not as much as I thought. I've blocked 3 communities, 3 users, and 2 domains.
None. Not sure why I’d want to in all honesty.
I like to browse the All feed to see new stuff, but there are things I know I'm never going to want to see, so it's nice to have all of that not even show up rather than wade through it to see other stuff.
Let's see...
One instance, one magazine (which was later deleted) and 17 users. I block bigots, people posting explicit things without tags, hostile people, and folk with genitals as their profile pic... mostly.
What's wrong with the piped bot?
I mainly use lemmy on mobile, and the piped site doesn't work on Firefox. The videos never play for me.
I use libretube on my phone, which uses piped for videos. Most of the time it works pretty well, sometimes it doesn't work as well so I switch over to newpipe x sponsorblock
How do you check?
It should be in your profile
Not a whole lot (4 communities, 7 people, 3 domains), but posting to mention that if you're on kbin.social, you can block by domain like so:
https://kbin.social/d/facebook.com
Block button is on the right in the domain information panel.
Not sure if Lemmy has this feature yet.
It doesn't yet.
I might have to block Lemmy.ml because these fuxking tankies are getting on my last nerve.
That's not a community mate? I mean they are, but it's an instance. btw you should check out hexbear to really lose your nerve.
Man I'm getting close to following in your footsteps. All the pro-Russia/pro-China bullshit really gets under my skin.
How can I tell? My first two days here and I've been blocking left and right.
The list should be in your profile
200+ and growing 10 each day. I had few thousands on reddit. sports, non-English, anime, memes, bikini bottom bullshit, mindly circle jerk infuriating balooney. and I got nsfw off. if I turn it on, I just won't be able to calmly read the interesting stuff, I will be forces to tap the bans all day. please stop moving reddit here. kthnx.
Us politics, lemmygrad, us sports, lbtq, German and French