I’m playing whack a mole constantly, blocking all these anime subs!

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Join a smaller instance. As long as members don’t subscribe to the anime communities, they won’t feed into the feed.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    ?

    I don’t see any anime subs by default just browsing the lemmy.world all page when sorted by hot, active, scaled, or new. So what exactly are you doing, and where do I sign up?

      • mrvictory1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I had to do this for US politics but I don’t recall when I last saw an anime related post.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yes, blocking something you don’t want to see usually results in seeing fewer of that thing.

        • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Not when that thing has dozens of communities for every little nuance a genre can have. For example:

            • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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              2 months ago

              I’m with you on this. That may not be the intent, but it sure as hell is the vibe they give off.

              • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                2 months ago

                What “vibe”? The only descriptive words this person used are “worst” and “loli” and the obvious extrapolation there is a beyond serius accusation.

                If you can acknowledge it’s not the “intent”, then why the fuck are you still “with” someone who seems to think that judging anime fans together with the absolute worst of humanity, is anywhere close to reasonable?

                • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  I absolutely didn’t acknowledge that it isn’t the intent, I said it may not be.

                  I absolutely think that is the intent and I find those communities to be gross and have them all blocked.

                  You are so weirdly defensive about it. Almost like you know a lot of people find it highly questionable and they may have a point. If you think every anime fan is into that crap, you are very sorely mistaken, and if you don’t, you are using inapplicable generalizations to make a point and that’s just deceptive.

            • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              2 months ago

              I resent that.

              Please don’t go around commenting things that will make readers think “moe” means something it doesn’t.

              And we have different ideas of what “majority” means: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].

              My reasons for setting up the communities are explicitly non-pornographic, and even the quite sexy content is not the kind anyone faps to.

              Its about charachter art that is adorable and compelling in a way that provokes attachment. Not arousal, or at least not just that.

              The newest [email protected] specifically does not allow lewd content at all, even though it includes adult characters, because I know people like you would instantly make it weird.

              And it is wierd, but not in the fucked up way you’re thinking of.

        • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Right (appreciate the sparky comment), but there seem to be anime subs for every little anime niche there could possibly be. If it was all limited to a few anime subs this would never have been an issue. Block one or two communities, and you’re done.

          Instead, you have to play wackamole and block communities every couple of weeks that get created for some new niche that apparently is t filled.

          • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I got the impression it’s just a few people and the one I replied to was very hostile. They thought it was their right to post as much borderline loli as possible.

          • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            2 months ago

            On the other hand, imagine wanting to block Linux communities, it feels like every other day there’s a new one

          • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Are you actually checking the creation dates on the communities?

            Or are you just mad that there are a lot of them, and that people actually post to them, even months after they get created, and so you end up seeing a new one now and then.

            Because as one of the biggest anime content posters, “every couple weeks” is just not the case. There’s daily content but it’s from a definite group of subs that you absolutely can block.

            Here, I even have a list: https://ani.social/post/284178

    • LilDumpy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yes, OP’s post is unpopular.

      I would also like to sign up for Anime news and updates.

      Please lmk how to do this.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It comes and goes in waves I believe. There was a time when you’d see a wave of Moe themed communities. The same has happened for music, and ai too. If you haven’t seen it, or don’t recall, then count yourself lucky.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Oh, they never stopped. I’m still posting regularly to all of them, but I set up all the ones I wanted, so if you blocked them you wont have seen any new ones pop up in a while.

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Seriously, I would love to see anime communities, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one… Lemmy for me seems to be 99% US politics, 0.99% LLM bros trying to sell their scams, 0.01% other posts, of which about 0.01% might actually be interesting… 😐

        • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          26 days ago

          Eh, I’m more into tentacles and whatnot.

          Still, we were talking about seeing stuff by default, not by looking it up.

          And the thing about Lemmy and having to look up stuff that you don’t see by default is that once you find it it turns out to be the same dozen or so posts you found the last time you looked. And the previous one. And the one before.

          In the most tragic cases you can see a user posting stuff for a week or two around the time of the Reddit API exodus, hoping to attract other lemmings interested in the same stuff so they’d post their own… and slowly losing hope until they stop. It’s fucking sad.

          Don’t get me wrong, Lemmy is still far better than Reddit is now, and orders of magnitude more alive if you don’t count the bots (Reddit is more alive in the sense that a decomposing corpse full of maggots is more full of life than the poor critter was before dying, except the maggots are bots, which aren’t alive at all), but it’s far from what Reddit was before it killed itself, let alone when when it was good.

          Also, holy necromancy Batman… this thread was about a month old…!

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Wait where are you seeing all the sports content? Any sport communities I browse have only a handful of regulars knocking about (don’t get me wrong, I’m glad of them, but it’s not quite the same as Reddit)

        • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Ah the one from a week ago or so? There were a couple new ones for me in there, but none of the sports I’m interested in (basically football* & rugby) have super active communities. I’m glad I’m an arsenal fan at least because we’re the one team community I’ve seen that seems to have something new every day.

          *The international kind, not NFL

          (Also cheers to you for keeping the content up in the new communities community, definitely found a lot through your posts)

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        With sports it is more annoying because they tend to come in through bursts for very specific communities, like individual sports teams. Blocking each sports team community one at a time is like playing whack a mole.

        It isn’t that they are overwhelming the All - Hot feed all the time, but there are bursts where they do.

        • SatyrSack@lemmy.oneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Back in the day, when Reddit was a thing, I always wanted some sort of dynamic curated block list. If I were to subscribe to the “sports” block list, then all the current sports subs would be added to my filters. Every time a new sports sub gets created, users have the ability to add that new sub to the dynamic “sports” list. At that point, everyone else that is subscribed to that “sports” list gets that new sub added to their filters automatically.

          • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Categorizing things for blocklists is great concept, but since most content isn’t even marked for language I doubt the categories would be reliable enough to use.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
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        2 months ago

        I’ve been getting a lot of formula 1 and WWF lately, sorting by “all”, “active”, and “new.” I just keep scrolling.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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      2 months ago

      this is how i manage it, people say use subscribed but that shit blocks you in. fedi needs people posting across communities to liven it up

      • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        2 months ago

        fedi needs people posting across communities to liven it up

        Curious coming from someone with 0 posts.

        But yes, we do need more people

          • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            2 months ago

            By the way, is this your first account or an alt? If it’s your first, how do you find Lemmy after a month?

            • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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              2 months ago

              migrated after kbin.run got epstein’s so been around a hot minute.

              either way, deff won’t skip a chance to shill fediverse. personally i prefer mbin as my instance. big believer in decentralized social media and willing to suffer QoL hits for it. fediverse does fix the itch reddit used to fix so high hopes we can get it to the level where it becomes the defacto social media of the world without any of the nasty corpo bullshi that happened as result of web2.0.

              doing my part.jpeg

  • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    Oh no, that terrible anime subs and content. Quick everyone post more fully qualified !links to more of these groups so i can avoid them, there’s only been a few in the thread so far

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Yeah :D

          It’s a pity not everyone wants me around, but I’m not going anywhere, so complaints are quite pointless.

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Don’t let them get you down. I feel like everything I post has SOME downvotes. People called me mentally deranged because I made a post in the Fediverse community that what the fediverse needs overall is for celebrities to call the fediverse home, and bring their userbases with them.

            You know how you might see a celebrity say “Follow me at @CelebrityName”. Well right now, that username is universal. They want that same exact username on twitter, on youtube, on instagram. And I suggested that we need to have more of a profile system on the fediverse. So when you register MentalEdge on one fediverse platform, you’re registering the name MentalEdge. Nobody else could have that. And sure, you might be [email protected], but if someone were to come to Lemmy, and knew who MentalEdge was, they’d just search @MentalEdge. Then the search would find you [email protected], and maybe you signed up to pixelfed, and it finds that too. Because you’re the only MentalEdge.

            People ignored the concept, and instead said “WE DON’T NEED CELEBRITIES HERE!!! AHHHH OTHER PEOPLE WHO AREN’T US ARE AWFUL!!!”

            But, in kindergarten I had a rough first day of school. Kids made fun of me. And when I came home, my great aunt edna gave me advice that applied 36 years ago, and it applies today.

            “FUCK EM! FUCK THE WHOLE LOT OF EM’! THEY DON’T KNOW SHIT! I BET THEY POOP THE BED EVERYNIGHT!”

            Great advice then, great advice now.

              • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 months ago

                And like I replied there, when’s the last time a celebrity gave out their email address? They care more about the username brand that works across all platforms. Their publicist may know where to email them, but for general fans, they just put out a username like @Username. You never see [email protected]. And the reason is because it would be too easy to grab a duplicate email and impersonate them. Which was the whole point of the post. Right now I could register Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social and if someone is on an interface that they don’t see which instance you’re home to (such as how I don’t see your home instance right now), I could be you. I could say things you whole heartedly disagree with, and if people thought I was you, they would attribute you to saying such things. Maybe offensive things. Maybe posting offensive or illegal pictures. And now you are credited with having done that, despite never having done that.

                So the risk for a celebrity being cancelled is too high for them to migrate to an unproven platform if they can’t even control their own username. Thus they won’t come, and thus the fediverse as a whole stays small and unknown as a result.

                • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  Right now I could register Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social and if someone is on an interface that they don’t see which instance you’re home to (such as how I don’t see your home instance right now), I could be you. I could say things you whole heartedly disagree with, and if people thought I was you, they would attribute you to saying such things. Maybe offensive things. Maybe posting offensive or illegal pictures. And now you are credited with having done that, despite never having done that.

                  I maintain a list of alt accounts in my bio. I don’t care that much about that, if those impersonators (implying they use my profile picture, otherwise it’s just another Blaze, I have two friends called John, they’re not impersonating each other, they’re their own distinct person) get spotted, their accounts will probably get removed, they aren’t mine.

                  But I’m not a celebrity.

                  Should we report @[email protected] and get that account banned?

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          MentalEdge goes on 7 day vacation.

          You: “Hello, police? I think MentalEdge has been kidnapped or murdered. I haven’t seen any anime titties lately!”

          Police: “…what is going on now?”

  • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Downvoted because this is true.

    Y’all watch too many Japanese car-toons, and the apparent age of the female characters is fucking questionable, and every time someone brings it up yous start bleating about projecting to try and excuse it

    Fucking weird, guys

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Considering the art style has big heads and eyes, and omits age-indicating facial details to the point that in some stuff character straight up don’t have noses, I always find it funny when people say adult anime characters look like 10-year-olds.

      Based on what, the way real people look?

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          MentalEdge literally keeps the anime communities alive. You have six posts.

          Such rage for something you can just Side Menu > Block Instance for.

  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Your anime is not unique enough to not just be posted in one mega anime community. That’s easier to block. Probably has the same voice actors, too.

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You can choose to browse all, local or subscribed. My guess is, you don’t spend much time checking the subscribed feed if you end up seeing stuff you don’t care about. It’s true that pretty much everything in the “all” menu is irrelevant stuff I don’t want to see, so I don’t really check that place very often.