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.
trans, furry, and mental illness in the same breath?
If lemmy were sane you would have been banned months ago
Huh? I'm literally talking about like anxiety memes, adhd, autism, etc. Just not topics I find interesting.
All of lemmy.ml
A bunch if german communities. No hate to the Germans, I just don't understand your deeply ridiculous language
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’ve found this is exactly the best way to enjoy Lemmy.
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.
wow that's ridiculously naive
Explain this.
I have to make some assumptions about you here, forgive me for the parts I miss on.
From your post history I feel you are asking this out of a sincere belief that rational debate over every topic leads to greater understanding and more positive outcomes. This is a noble belief but it is not born out by real world experience.
I was there when 4chan got overrun by stormfront, I was there when Digg was overrun by powermods, I was there when reddit was overrun by MAGA and in EVERY one of those circumstances the initial crack that gave space to the bad actors that would come to subvert those platforms was the same mistaken belief you have; that open debate about every topic is acceptable and productive.
There are some ideas that need to be deplatformed if the platform they are hosted on is to continue being a positive community. Humanity isn't nearly as rational as you assume, and even if you personally feel yourself resilient to such platform manipulation, the vast majority of others are not.
Fair explanation. I appreciate your taking the time.
then, you know, upvote maybe?
Oops. Sorry about that. Done.
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.
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!
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.
Hexbear is blocked for me.
hexbear,ml, lemmygrad all filled with nasty people.
Aka all the instances that make lemmy worth hanging around for.
Anything with anime "Mo", porn, or "furry" in it. I'm not hating on them, it's just not for me.
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.
Too many to list but in general:
Non-English
Politics
Anime
AI gen
Ball sports
NSFW/Cosplay
Furry
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.
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.
I have the lemmy.ml instance blocked, some non-English speaking and anime communities blocked.
Mostly just subjects I don't have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.
Almost all anime and a lot of the ai communities
Anything Linux. We get it. You like Linux. If I wanted to be converted by religious nuts I'd still be talking to a whole side of my family.
None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.
The short answer is anything I don't like or want to see. The shorter answer is .ml.
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.
Anything involving AI image generation
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.
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