For me it’s the Linux and Star Trek stuff. I’m curious to what communities you find annoying enough to block.
All the tankie (far “left”) shit. It’s all either bad faith arguments (trolling), blatant propaganda or people who never bothered to fact check the propaganda.
They also create an inordinate amount of communities, had to use the “block instance” button a lot.
NSFW stuff also gets annoying after a while, but that seems less prevalent. (Just had to block one instance to get 99%)
Looking at my block list, the AI images and niece music stuff also got added at some point.
Tankie is far left? I thought it was far right. I admit I never really was sure, though.
If you’re in America, do you see the entire rest of the g-20 as really far left? They do free healthcare and schooling in the g-20 but require almost as much tax as America, and I’m wondering if that makes them appear really far left given America’s parties are center-right and far-right and everyone could have that as their point of view.
I mostly see tankies as an authoritarian (far right?) group pretending to be far left. Or at least that’s how they brand it, even though they openly advocate for government confiscation of all property.
Have you ever spoken to a leftist?
Half of this comment section is people who probably consider themselves “centrist” but shriek tankie and block anybody even an inch left of biden. 🤣
Half of Lemmy, I would say. There’s a bimodal distrubution on Lemmy, centering around Leftism and Liberalism, with variance among those.
Holy shit, do I have a fucking list. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
I see it, I block it, boy oh boy do I have a list
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And they say fediverse does not have very niche communities…
Who knows how many are active, but yeah it’s really bad. I’ll be power scrolling All for random porn (I see something blurred out), I click on it, oh fuck, my eyes. Lol
Some of these names, too. It makes me laugh. “Welcome to… Gay Fisting”. 😆
The usual, politics, gay, whitepeopletwitter, news etc.
Many of the examples provided by other commenters are consistent with my banning policies.
Porn (or anything horny, explicit or not), Star Trek, vegans, communists.
This person blocked a vegan community showing vegan dishes, lmao
Average anticommunist
Darn, guess that ruins my plans for creating a community dedicated to Trekky vegan communist porn…
Anything that says yiff in the title, this stuff is so popular in lemmy. Not kink shaming, but really doesn’t do anything for me.
All the meme communities. I thought lemmy was going to be like reddit 15 years ago, but scolling all seems more like imugr.
Yous watched WAY too many Japanese cartoons when yous were kids
Most are anime communities, but I have some sport- and bot-post communities blocked too.
Hexbear and Lemmit.
Got bored of arguing with fanatical communists and I have no interest in mirrored content from Reddit.
Hexbear is no communist community. It’s a general leftist one. Lemmygrad (the one I’m on with this account) is (Marxism-Leninism)
To be fair, Hexbear is also Communist, just not exclusively so.
I guess you’re right
What is non-communist “leftism” though? That’s so vague. Unless you just mean non-communist anarchists I guess. I prefer the label “far-left” which I think is much more clear about meaning “communists and anarchists”. “Leftist” is so vague and many radlibs seem to self-identify that way.
I don’t block any communities. I’m confused as to what the point of blocking communities is—are you browsing All? I only see posts from communities I’m subscribed to
are you browsing All?
And sorting by new, yes.
I use lemmy in two ways: Whitelist: show me my subscriptions and only those (subscribed) Or blacklisted: show me everything else except the things I want to never see.
The latter lead me to this thread! It’s two different experiences for me and I get a bit out of my interest bubble from time to time.
I just block foreign language communities.
Linux users, like vegans, will tell you they use it even if you never ask
That’s not true at all, for Linux users or vegans. The problem is that there are people some that feel a sense of superiority because they use Linux or are vegan and they just won’t shut the fuck up about it.
Yes it is
Well, most of those some of them are on Lemmy.
I use Arch, btw…
Kidding, of course - but there are some of those folks out there. TBF, they’re the vocal minority, but they are vocal nonetheless.
I use Arch, btw
(sorry)
Anything US-politics and anything erotic, like almost every community from furry & anime instances. Also every non-English communities like feddit.de and some hobby communities I don’t care for. Over time my feed got way cleaner and more fun to sift through.
I am blocking everything religious.
I do not want to see christians and other religious folk trying to talk other people into their beliefs.
I have over 100 communities in my block list. I scroll through All and if I see a community over and over that I truly don’t care about I just add it to the block list. Scrolling through All becomes a way to find new communities I like instead of being 500 posts I don’t care about
It’s funny. I look at blocking as some king of moral judgment against the community, and so I don’t end up using it to shape my feed due to annoyance.
But, man, would I like to browse all without a million 196 posts.
Maybe it’s time I start.
Nice that’s also exactly how I browse Lemmy, so much variety compared to only focusing on communities you subscribed to.
huh, so like a reverse subscription feed curation. Definitely an interesting take I hadn’t considered but would probably want an alt for that purpose as you can’t “undo” it that easily like you can switch between subscription feed and all feed. Could be a nice experience when I’m just in a viewing mood (bathroom, work breaks, etc) and not really looking to interact.
