Why?

  • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    14 hours ago

    -games I don’t play but which tend to clutter All by being highly posted/active (Hololive, Honkaistarrail, etc.)

    • “stop drinking” related comms because they were too frequent in the feed, I already stopped drinking because I’m too old and cranky to deal with hangovers, and a lot of them were giving me creepy cult vibes tbh

    • “witchesvspatriarchy” and related because I find that kind of humor snobby and grating

    • a few other women/feminism related comms. I’m a lesbian who struggles with internalized misogyny, I’ll fully admit that. But some of these posts are unhinged misandry and a lot of them are just depressing to read and probably not good for my mental health

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 day ago

    Nothing, but i have a word blocklist on trump, elon and ice. So that way I am up to date because some stuff still comes through, but not knee deep in the fascism takeover of the US (at least on Lemmy 🥲)

  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
    115·
    1 day ago

    Don’t have any instances blocked, but I block all the political, trans, furry, and mental illness communities. I wish people wouldn’t post political stuff to the YSK or general memes communities, there are 5 million better places to post that on lemmy, but it’s manageable.

  • wildcardology@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 day ago

    Sports and Linux.

    I have no interest in sports.

    I also have no interest in Linux, I have installed and used Linux around ten years ago. If and when I need Linux I’ll just go to the mainstream internet or just unblock them and join. But for now no.

  • Oberyn@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 day ago

    Have LꝏꝏꝏTs communities blocked , but noteworthy types :

    • Most (meme|shitpost|news) communities . Oversaturation from seemingly homogenous threadiverse userbase
      • (Meme|shitpost) content dœsn’t lend itself well to conversations (which’s what am here for) IMO . If I wanted those I’d just browse tumblr oar some thing
      • Prefer getting my news elsewhere
    • “(Cringe|Trashy)”-adjacent communities . Thankfully not many exist
    • All (.*)(girl|babe)s NSFW communities , don’t like seeing photorealistic imgs of conventionally attractive women

    As far’s instances , only one can remember 🏧’s hilariouschaos bcus TERF community on there I think

  • hraegsvelmir@ani.social
    3·
    1 day ago

    Mostly just sports communities. They tend to post a lot, and I just don’t really care about sports outside of Motorsport. If Arsenal has some insane game, or gets a great player signed, I’ll hear about it at work sooner or later, either from coworkers or a customer. I would say the only big sport that doesn’t apply to between those played in North America and Europe is probably cricket, cause nobody has time for it. Then again, haven’t seen a single cricket post, either.

    I can stay current on what’s going on with the NFL, NBA, MLB, Premier League, rugby and even hurling, just by showing up to work, so there’s no real benefit to seeing it here, too.

    Also, AI communities get blocked pretty much as soon as they pop up in my feed. The novelty of “Hah, that’s crazy that a computer made this image” has long since worn off, and I have no interest in seeing the umpteenth iteration of some AI take on art or photography.

    I don’t have the option ticked to show nsfw content, and people have generally been good about tagging such content, so I haven’t had to block anything there.

  • propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    All of the trans communities.

    I don’t like their patronizing, berating attitude coupled with censoring anyone who might raise a valid point against them.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    All the non-English ones. If I can’t read it then there’s no point to having it clutteting things up.

    Also all the porn. That’s not what I’m here for.

  • nomad@infosec.pub
    183·
    3 days ago

    Blocked most furry and trans communities. I’m not against it, not into it and its overrepresented here for obvious reasons.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        1·
        1 day ago

        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.

          • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
            1·
            8 hours ago

            I think you’re in denial.

            I challenge you (and anyone) to explore the furry community and not run across some excellent Cybersecurity content!

            • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
              1·
              8 hours ago

              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

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
    60·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
      17·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
        101·
        3 days ago

        Thankfully you can block a handful of users and then you won’t get included in their new perversions.

        • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
          2·
          1 day ago

          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.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        2·
        1 day ago

        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.

  • scytale@lemmy.zip
    62·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      351·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Akasazh@feddit.nl
        6·
        3 days ago

        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.

    • DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    101·
    2 days ago

    Blocked furry and most trans stuff. A ton of the porn that littered my feed. That’s probably 75% of my blocklist. Many non-english communities, though I’ve kept a few to run through translators just to see what’s going on in other countries. Communities with high post counts of memes that spam my feed. Any /c with no interest in good faith discussion.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    22·
    3 days ago

    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!