Why?
None, although there’s an ADHD sub that pops up often that is annoying and ive comsidered blocking it
So far none.
Only individual users.I don’t block entire instances, but I block every single community I’m not interested in - which probably adds up to over 500 by now. I tried blocking all the mean or extremist users, but that ended up completely killing my feed, since that seems to be about 80% of active commenters. So nowadays, I use content filters to screen for keywords in comments and posts. My list of keywords is quite substantial and keeps growing every week. At this point, I’d say about 50% of the threads on my homepage get filtered out. While I can’t know exactly how many comments are being hidden, I’d imagine it’s about the same.
Funnily enough, even after all that filtering, a significant portion of what still gets through is full of mean, snide remarks, tribalism, toxicity, negativity, doomerism, hopelessness, and that classic crabs-in-a-bucket mentality. A smart person would probably just give up and bail - but I guess I’m not that smart.
If everywhere you go smells like shit, it might be time to check your own shoes.
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!
the extremist ones and the porn ones. include triad, i dont block bahaj one, as i have no issues with it.
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.
The tankie triad and anything anime related. I swear anime bros make a new comm for each of their favorite characters in a specific outfit
All communities with AI generated content.
Just checked and it’s a whole bunch of nsfw ones (I don’t block all nsfw, but there are a lot of weird communities in that category that I don’t need to see), a bunch of German ones because they were taking over the feed at one point, and theonion (which I don’t really find funny anymore)
I block the German ones cause I don’t understand the posts, and all the stupid green text 4chan stuff.
Too many to list but in general:
Non-English
Politics
Anime
AI gen
Ball sports
NSFW/Cosplay
Furryi had to block the main politics one, because they start shilling for israel low-key.
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.
All the Sports and racing stuff. They’re really spammy and i just don’t care about sports.
Some foreign language communities don’t seem to have their language marked so they still show up despite my language settings, so I blocked them to make things easier.
Meme communities, anime, sports, furries, hexbear, moe, and tankie instances. I just block these categories to maintain All as a viable browsing option. I want to be able to subscribe to a limited array of communities while keeping up with trends and events.
