Why?
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.
Almost all anime and a lot of the ai communities
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.
Anything involving AI image generation
I have the lemmy.ml instance blocked, some non-English speaking and anime communities blocked.
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!
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.
I have stopped using the “All” feed for that reason, it’s best to find communities that you’re interested in and only look at those in my experience. Finding them without the All feed is the challenge though. I’ve found Lemmy to be quite nice when it was new, but it seems this is the way all communities go when they reach a certain size.
If everywhere you go smells like shit, it might be time to check your own shoes.
As if a smug metaphor, delivered in the exact same dismissive tone I was criticizing is supposed to prove me wrong.
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
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 extremist ones and the porn ones. include triad, i dont block bahaj one, as i have no issues with it.
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.
Lemmy.today and hilariouschaos.com for the same reason
Personally I block anything that ends with “moe” I’m not really into thirst traps and anime thirst traps feel like the bottom of an already unwanted barrel.
Oh yeah, forgot about this. Each time I rotate accounts I’ve got to go on an anime blocking spree. Nothing against anime but the fans are creeps.
Thankfully you can block a handful of users and then you won’t get included in their new perversions.
Thiccmoe aren’t even thicc.
Whack-a-Moe. Seems endless. I point to that as a main reason lemmy will never gain popularity.
