For me it’s the Linux and Star Trek stuff. I’m curious to what communities you find annoying enough to block.
@[email protected] 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
And memes, they’re usually unfunny to me
I just block foreign language communities.
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
Nice that’s also exactly how I browse Lemmy, so much variety compared to only focusing on communities you subscribed to.
huh, so like a reverse subscription feed curation. Definitely an interesting take I hadn’t considered but would probably want an alt for that purpose as you can’t “undo” it that easily like you can switch between subscription feed and all feed. Could be a nice experience when I’m just in a viewing mood (bathroom, work breaks, etc) and not really looking to interact.
It’s funny. I look at blocking as some king of moral judgment against the community, and so I don’t end up using it to shape my feed due to annoyance.
But, man, would I like to browse all without a million 196 posts.
Maybe it’s time I start.
I am blocking everything religious.
I do not want to see christians and other religious folk trying to talk other people into their beliefs.
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.
Mostly just communities in languages I don’t know. I mostly stick to my subscribed feed though, not all.
Linux users, like vegans, will tell you they use it even if you never ask
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.
Yes it is
Well, most of those some of them are on Lemmy.
I use Arch, btw…
Kidding, of course - but there are some of those folks out there. TBF, they’re the vocal minority, but they are vocal nonetheless.
I use Arch, btw
(sorry)
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.
I have a loooong list of blocked stuff. I use it as an ever growing filter that blocks anything I don’t really care to see.
And also a few people who weren’t particularly kind to me. But those are not very common on here I’ve noticed
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.
Yous watched WAY too many Japanese cartoons when yous were kids
The only big one I did was block posts that mention elon musk, my feed was getting flooded with posts at one point.
For a spell I also blocked keywords to us politics, probably should just block the actual political communities.
Sports. I do not care. And keywords futa, yiff, and ecchi.
Anything that presents a risk of viewing a penis.
For me, the opposite. No vajayjay or teetaas. Blocked.
User name checks out
You know it.
That was my main problem with blue sky when I first signed up. I didn’t search for penis.
I was searching for fun and entertaining content and the occasional casual bob and vagene, and I got so much penis.
Like a disgusting amount of penis.
I got so much penis that I started to understand what it felt like to be a girl on a dating site.
Most are anime communities, but I have some sport- and bot-post communities blocked too.
