Why?
Anything with anime “Mo”, porn, or “furry” in it. I’m not hating on them, it’s just not for me.
- A spider community because I ain’t about that life as an arachnophobic person.
- A bunch of minecraft communities because I completely ditched the game after they decided that Java players aren’t allowed to use adult words anymore on their private single player worlds and also because of the whole chat thing where all messages you send are linked to your specific account.
- Entomology because I don’t fuck with bugs.
- A few different AI communities because I try to avoid AI if possible.
- A community about dicks and dick pics. Not my cup of tea and I don’t feel like seeing them on any feed since I don’t blur NSFW images.
Those are just a few. The rest are minor things or other communities that are the same thing essentially, but on different instances.
“Elon” “Musk” “Trump” “Donald”
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.
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…
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.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.
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.
the extremist ones and the porn ones. include triad, i dont block bahaj one, as i have no issues with it.
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.
