My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)
I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.
What about you?
No communities, but I blocked the whole Lemmy NSFW instance because I am not into porn and autoplay GIFs in my feed is not to my liking. (you all do you I just don’t care for it).
Communities related to Anime, soft porn stuff like “pictures of fit women”, local communities about some town that’s 5,000 km away from me and football.
You know how adblock has blocklists… what if we had shareable lemmy blocklists like that? Anyone could create a blocklist and you could import into your client. Would be pretty sweet.
Would have to be fairly frequently updated and constantly monitored.
Over a thousand, for sure? I hate memes. I’m just scrolling light conversations. No deep politics or debates. No depressing news, anime, etc
The worst part about meme subs is that they have a decade of subreddits to repost from. I know…insert xkcd comic about being the lucky 10,000…but personally I’ve seen all those reposts of overused templates 100 times over the years and don’t want to see them again
I’ve blocked 40ish instances and hundreds of communities. Everything I find boring, not interesting or trying too hard.
You can block communities?
Yes. Not sure what app you use but for me I click the dots in the corner of a post and pick Block Community and Block User
It works on Jerboa
Current version of Lemmy supports this natively
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I’m heavy handed with blocking.
I block all the major NSFW instances. Non-english speaking instances. A few of the terminally argumentative instances.
Quite a few communities that cover topics or issues I don’t care to read about. And some that are low effort article spam pits.
I block people that want to argue about substanceless nonsense, or try to low-effort goad me.
Bots are also blocked in settings.
That, plus all the obvious propaganda, dogmatic echo chambers, and people who misspell stuff voluntarily, or make extremely basic mistakes (“your wrong”, “its that”, “there logic”, etc) more than once.
Glad I’m not the only one ruthlessly blocking people for petty reasons. I deliberately go into controversial threads just to find the “fuck X”, ACAB, eat the rich etc. comments only to block the users. If that’s your style of commenting then I’m not interested in what else you’ve got to say. I don’t mind disagreement. I’m simply just not interested in seeing that kind of low effort shitposting on my feed.
“I NEED to be the first to post this popular sentiment but I have literally nothing else to add”
I do the same thing. I use all as my home page so I can see new and interesting stuff.
I tend to block most 'ism and 'ism-adjacent communities, Foreign language communities, political communities, NSFW/Fetish, and a few highly specific tech/app/language communities that mostly only post version updates.
Bots. lots of bots. If your community is 90% bot posts/repost aggregation and I see 5-10 posts consecutively in ‘all’ because your bot just vomited up it’s entire load in a 120 second span then I’ll probably block it.
- 8 Keywords (Voyager app feature)
- 186 Users.
- 964 Communities.
- 38 Instances.
There’s way too many communities consisting solely of bots reposting from the subreddit of the same name. I do not understand why anyone would want that. There’s rarely comments
Leaving a comment feels weird, too. There’s not even an OP to talk to, so it’s like shouting into the void.
In principle, I do get the need for these communities. Like, if you just want capybara pictures to show up in your feed, then you don’t need many comments on those.
But these bots usually spit out far too many posts for my liking, so more often than not, I do block them anyways.Bot-driven communities feel like ads as opposed to communities with bots that post, say, game patch notes automatically. I want there to be a reason something is posted other than to fill a void
Im on kbin and it does not show a total but I block anything in languages I don’t know or that seems to be all memes or sports related but certainly not anime or porn.
Since you’re an anime enjoyer, I have a question: do you ever find that there’s a lack of variety in the art styles? I was pretty into it in the 90s/2000s but it seems like there’s a new anime every week that looks identical to the one before it
Yes but I think thats a bit the same with all media. There is still tons of relatively recent anime that is really unique like attack on titan or To Your Eternity or even spy family.
I saw the first two seasons of AoT and liked it a lot. It has a well-defined art style. My only “complaint” is that I had a hard time telling a few characters apart
Do you know the word/name for the art style I described in my other comment? I call it “kawaii anime” but I know that’s not right lol
Im sorta a poser when it comes to fandom. I like stuff but I don’t have the obsession that drives really getting into a lot of details. So I totally don’t know are styles and such. Its sorta like museums. I like to go and I like what I like but I don’t necessarily have great depth of knowledge of art style or periods or such. Its only due to memes that I know the getting sucked into a fantasy world has a name and I can’t even recall that atm. I mean I could google it right now but I just don’t care much that the particular term is X but if someone mentions it in a convo I will likely remember that what they are talking about with context clues. im thinking its like ikea with an s somewhere and i or something.
IKEA anime actually works really well for what I’m describing lol
Not necessarily bad but it is bland and unoriginal. The main difference for this analogy is that I wouldn’t consider IKEA to be childlike
lol. not my intention but cool. Maybe it will become a thing.
All those fucking Moe ones. Don’t think I can see that on jerboa, maybe 10?
I have two accounts. One has all the more serious news type stuff blocked and the other is unfiltered. Its nice to be able to take a break from reading about war and disease. I get most of that news from Mastadon anyway.
That’s a good idea. I’ve blocked so much almost all I get is depressing news. They need to let you export blocked lists. Mines so long it’s probably worth something.
Just 5 - 3 from hexbear, 1 quasi NSFW that keeps popping up (I have NSFW turned off), and the Far Side one because they’re a lot less funny and more boomer humor than I remember.
I get you but I disagree about Far Side because it’s almost entirely wholesome. Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is
Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is
As opposed to humor boomers actually like…
Boomer humor is not all humor that boomers like. It’s humor that was primarily popular in their era - like “I hate my wife” jokes fit because don’t really play well anymore
My point is that lots and lots of us didn’t really love that kind of stuff at the time. It’s just that those kinds of jokes stand out, along with race jokes, because they’ve aged so badly.
It must suck to be a “normal” boomer in the internet getting lumped in with the shitheads of your demographic. Hell…you’re the ones who pushed the civil rights movement.
It’s a shame your generation (not you specifically, of course) fucked the world up to the point that every generation after you looks back in disgust and doesn’t even consider the things you did right.
What sucks is that people attribute stuff like that to the whole generation; we get painted broadly as very right wing conservatives who are against any social programs. But look at things like the age demographics of the last couple presidential elections. Yes, you’ll see that more older people voted conservative than liberal, but not by a large margin. You’ll also see that, though more younger folks voted liberal, that margin wasn’t huge either. And in our society, it’s not unusual for folks to get more conservative as they get older (the opposite for me personally, but it’s often true), so it won’t be surprising if younger folks today vote more conservatively when they’re older.
Huge hunks of boomers are fighting for equal rights for all people, are big proponents of social programs that help those who are disadvantaged, advocate for universal healthcare, and all sorts of other progressive issues. Large numbers of younger people are against those things. The fact that total numbers might tip one way or another doesn’t change that, and applying a stereotype to millions of people is always wrong.
I think it’s really the policies pushed by the politicians that your generation voted in that led to the boomer hate. My generation will surely be remembered for Trump just like yours for Reagan
I’ve blocked 15 instances for overall spam/trash comments and 210 individuals subs so far.
Furrys, anime, spam, porn, alt-right, etc.
I don’t think I’ve seen any far right stuff but I’m on .world which probably defederated already
Only those with other languages that I do not understand and that somehow still show on my feed.
