In my personal opinion, this site is completely unusable without heavy content filtering. Just being picky about which communities to follow and users to block isn’t enough.

That said, I realize I might be in the minority on this, so I’m curious what others are doing to preserve their sanity.

  • limerod@reddthat.com
    1·
    3 days ago

    I don’t use a filter. I subscribe to communities that interest me. Keep NSFW posts turned off. browse by hot, scaled and multi cummonies related to tech and all that I like.

            • med@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              4·
              7 days ago

              Which is a pretty good advertisement for the fediverse actually. I’d love to know how many of those thousand blocked communities are still active, but not enough to bother working it out.

              • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                7 days ago

                Yeah a lot of those were communities that just appeared out of nowhere and spammed my All suddenly - which was likely just one person trying to get the ball rolling with a topic I’m not interested in. Whether that initial wave of content ended up attracting an active community vs just fizzling out, idk, but a good chunk of them are probably ghost communities now.

                Another good chunk are redundant communities - like 5 or 6 if those blocks are some variant of “To my badass hero” which is the same poster that keeps making new communities for softcore black and white porn… I can only assume in effort to circumvent blocks like mine.

                The number of real/active communities on my blocklist is probably closer to a couple hundred - the rest of just the result of content whack-a-mole to clean up short term messes.

    • Perspectivist@feddit.ukOP
      7·
      7 days ago

      I’ve similarly blocked all the communities I’m not interested in - to the point that my All feed is basically the same as my Subscribed feed, just with more memes on it.

      Still, it’s not enough. I don’t want to block entire news communities, for example, just because I’m not into certain stories.

      I even tried blocking users until I basically nuked my whole feed. That’s why I went back to just blocking the worst offenders and leaning harder on filtering out comments too.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    7 days ago

    Block any community that is either sports, local area, news, crypto, AI, music, and us politics.

  • tehmics@lemmy.world
    202·
    7 days ago

    There’s so little content, I can’t imagine filtering it. I just browse All, sorted by Hot.

    • limerod@reddthat.com
      1·
      3 days ago

      If you sort by Scaled. Posts will be sorted by community size and smaller communities will not get drowned by larger ones.

      Edit: added the missing ‘not’ word.

      • tehmics@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        I see. I think you meant “smaller communities will [not] get drowned out” in your first comment. I tried it out and it does show more variety, thanks

        • limerod@reddthat.com
          1·
          3 days ago

          It’s desirable if you want to browse diverse, niche and interesting communities without the bias of community size.

      • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 days ago

        I browse my home feed with new, when it starts to run dry I switch to All, which does not happen very often. I filter mostly US politics.

  • whelk@retrolemmy.com
    9·
    7 days ago

    I’ve blocked tons of communities that are dedicated solely to posting voluptuous anime women, and one or two instances that are clearly dedicated to trolling and rage bait. Not much other than that I don’t think. I frequently browse all, but if I’m not in the mood for politics and cynicism I just stick to my subscribed feed, which is nice to be able to do.

    Those anime women communities are like a hydra, though. Block one and two more take its place

    • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      6 days ago

      The anime women are the worst. I don’t like anime, and I’m a heterosexual woman. I don’t want to see my feed consisting of endless half naked anime women. No thanks. Make them go away and stay away.

    • grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      Seriously. The anime and furry communities are nuts. I have blocked so many of them, and the people posting in them but it seems like every day there’s a new batch to filter out. Is there really a need for so many communities dedicated to that?

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    6 days ago

    Ive blocked worldnews and that seems to have done the trick.

    I dont know enough about how lemmy works, but see a bunch of discussion about “let’s defederate with other instances” so its possible that whoevers running this show is doing the censoring for me. If it works something like I think it does, I dont like the concept but am pretty happy with the results so

  • KaChilde@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    6 days ago

    I Block any AI community that schlorps its sweaty corpse up on the shores of All.

    I filter foreign language subs/instances, not because of any disdain towards them, but just because when they wake up for the day, my feed is flooded with .de posts that I unfortunately do not understand.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    10·
    6 days ago

    Personally i just block whatever crosses my feed that i do not ever want to interact with.

    LOTS of weird porn, trans or women communities i have nothing to contribute to, the occasional user i personally don’t vibe with. Certain political communities, most america centric news communities, there is tons of things to potentially not be interested in / annoyed with.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    101·
    7 days ago

    I browse /all and block communities I’m not interested in.

    I only block users who are spamming, trolling, or harassing. I don’t really like blocking people. Everyone has a bad day sometimes and it shouldn’t count against you in the long run. Of course, if you just come here to exploit people, I don’t think you have anything to offer so I will block someone like that. I’m not here to spend money, so anyone who exists to extract money won’t have anything to offer me.

    • ccunning@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 days ago

      Seriously - if you run a video community you really need to have and enforce a rule that gives, at the bare minimum, a brief description of what the video is.

      I ain’t clicking on random YouTube links