Why?
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ZeroBytes.monster I don’t want a reddit bot in my feed. I wanted a clean break during the reddit 3rd party app backstabbing.
Mostly just subjects I don’t have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.
Politics and memes.
Social media is a terrible source for accurate, unbiased information. And memes are low quality content that shouldn’t be consumed by anyone.
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.
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.
Whack-a-Moe. Seems endless. I point to that as a main reason lemmy will never gain popularity.
Since it might help your feed, I’ll share something that worked for me.
I realized that we have a relatively small number of very active Moe champions who post to a variety of topical Lemmy’s. I switched to blocking those users, and it cleared Moe content from my feed.
I came to the same realization eventually! Pro tip!
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.
I also switched to blocking users who post Moe content. I’d be happy to chill with them in the comments, but it was just too much content for my feed.
Before I changed tactics, I was keenly aware of each time one of our top contributors discovered a new anime.
It was funny for awhile, but got to be too much effort to keep currating my feed.
I appreciate everyone who adds content here. Some just isn’t for me.
Thiccmoe aren’t even thicc.
Pretty much all non English/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian instances. No point having them in my feed if I can’t read them.
For Lemmy, kbin and piefed you can specifically choose which language posts you want to display if anyone doesn’t want to go with instance blocking.
Yeah, but if the community doesn’t properly set their
packagelanguage, they may end up breaking through depending on your setup.So many good communities don’t have a language set, either because they didn’t bother or they are multiligual.
None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.
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.
Best we can do is a “No, German” switch.
Es gibt kein Entkommen!
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.
I use the opposite strategy, which is what I did on Reddit: browse All, and block everything that isn’t interesting. Sports teams, shows I didn’t care about, other niche communities. I prefer this approach because I like finding content I never would have thought to subscribe to.
I alternate. I have my own curated list of subscriptions, which is mostly serious reading, so I’ll spend some time perusing that.
And then I move to All and enjoy the randomness, sometimes adding communities to my subscriptions, sometimes banning subs or content creators if they annoy me.
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.
I don’t block much but I do have a couple of filters that do good work on Piefed.
Hexbear is blocked for me.
hexbear,ml, lemmygrad all filled with nasty people.
Aka all the instances that make lemmy worth hanging around for.
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There’s a lot of freaky porn out there that I don’t want to see
They all kind of suck.
