Why?
I don’t have any. I instead subscribe to as many communities I find interesting and set my feed to only my subscriptions. I rarely venture out to All and only do when I want to discover more communities.
I’ve found this is exactly the best way to enjoy Lemmy.
That’s what I do, too. However, I did block some communities, mostly meme- or politics related, so I can briefly browse the “all” category once in a while.
This is why i think subject tagging for communities makes a lot of sense. I want to remove anime, k-pop, video games, sports, region-specific, tv/movie, “anarchy”/“everything sucks” and plenty of other entire categories from my “All” feed, but blocking is a never-ending effort.
Great idea. I’d love a “No German” switch.
Es gibt kein Entkommen!
deleted by creator
Den erwischen wir!!
Hexbear is blocked for me.
hexbear,ml, lemmygrad all filled with nasty people.
Aka all the instances that make lemmy worth hanging around for.
deleted by creator
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 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.
They mostly don’t have the language set at all, like 99% of all posts and the reason is nobody cares.
I actually really enjoy translating the whole comments pages sometimes if I get the meme through context clues, can’t tell if things get lost in translation or German humor is just really odd though…
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.
Blocked most furry and trans communities. I’m not against it, not into it and its overrepresented here for obvious reasons.
whoo boy time to block infosec.pub…
Made me laugh, anyway.
For those not in on the joke:
Some of today’s best hackers are members of the furry community, and infosec.pub is a hub for Cybersecurity discussions.
Some of today’s best hackers are members of the furry community,
BWAHHAHAHAHAHAH no
I think you’re in denial.
I challenge you (and anyone) to explore the furry community and not run across some excellent Cybersecurity content!
You don’t know me but I’ve been working in IT since before the internet had pictures, and actual credit hours in cybersecurity. Yes there is a subsection of furries that are into it, but you’re naive if you think that today’s best hackers even have a publicly accessible profiles.
The intersection is interesting, but points more to the confluence of social media activity and subversive mindsets than any inherent proclivity for tech.
I.e. people active on social media and therefore more well known are likely to have nontraditional values, and a certain percent are tech savvy that’s not too far off from the per-capita of any other terminally online subculture.
More to the point, there are several subcultures that claim to have ‘today’s best hackers’, anons, modders, crackers, AI bros, cryptobros, kernel contributors, hell even freaking gacha bros have a legit claim.
Being furry is no more an indicator than being into NFTs but people like to create narratives in their head that uplifts their chosen values, it’s just standard tribal monkey behavior
None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.
Mostly just subjects I don’t have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.
I have the lemmy.ml instance blocked, some non-English speaking and anime communities blocked.
Oh my god, soooooo many. An unreal amount of dreck here. The worst part is that I’ve blocked all that stuff and now it’s mostly terrible world news. And so, to answer your question, no it hasn’t made the experience here better. I guess my interests don’t jive with the main niches around here.
Anything with anime “Mo”, porn, or “furry” in it. I’m not hating on them, it’s just not for me.
what is mo?
I assume moe? Which I think means cute?
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.
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.
