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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.

I block the German ones cause I don’t understand the posts, and all the stupid green text 4chan stuff.

Hexbear is blocked for me.

Mostly porn communities that I dont vibe with or are what I would consider to be disgusting, like incest, sounding, and farting. Ive also banned a lot of furry communities, not because I dislike it but because its also a lot of porn. Anything AI is banned with prejudice. I have a lot of foreign ones banned but I realized I could just mute them instead, oh well.

Mostly just subjects I don't have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.

I think I've blocked over 500 communities. Not because they're all bad, mostly because it's stuff I'm not interested in.

Do not feel bad about blocking communities you're disinterested in. It cuts out the noise for you.

All communities with AI generated content.

Just checked and it's a whole bunch of nsfw ones (I don't block all nsfw, but there are a lot of weird communities in that category that I don't need to see), a bunch of German ones because they were taking over the feed at one point, and theonion (which I don't really find funny anymore)

Pretty much all non English/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian instances. No point having them in my feed if I can't read them.

All the Sports and racing stuff. They're really spammy and i just don't care about sports.

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.

None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.

Meme communities, anime, sports, furries, hexbear, moe, and tankie instances. I just block these categories to maintain All as a viable browsing option. I want to be able to subscribe to a limited array of communities while keeping up with trends and events.

ZeroBytes.monster I don't want a reddit bot in my feed. I wanted a clean break during the reddit 3rd party app backstabbing.

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.

*meme*

Religion

Hexbear, AuthLeft

Advertising communities

Political parties

"General", unspecified non-meme communities (nowherelsetopost etc)

None yet! Are there any I should be wary of?

Most of them I don't know why. I just came back to this account because of lemm.ee.

I don't block much but I do have a couple of filters that do good work on Piefed.

None, although there's an ADHD sub that pops up often that is annoying and ive comsidered blocking it

Some foreign language communities don't seem to have their language marked so they still show up despite my language settings, so I blocked them to make things easier.

Because you get it back in the form of services and perks.

Fuck cars, vegan communities, gender specific communities, cooking communities - because these types tend to be hard-line judgemental and fueled by hate (looking at you steak)

Mental health meme communities because they just post anything and say it's a trait of their condition. Does anyone else think about stuff? ADHD amiright?

Edit: oh and tHaNkSiMcUrEd because they just make fun of self help now

Anime art communities because there are so many and it's not my thing but I support their interests

Anything not in English because I can't read anything

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