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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

All the anime, furries, sports, non-English, news, and politics.

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[–] Drekaridill@feddit.is 9 points 2 days ago

Anything involving AI image generation

[–] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hexbear is blocked for me.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

hexbear,ml, lemmygrad all filled with nasty people.

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

I have the lemmy.ml instance blocked, some non-English speaking and anime communities blocked.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago
  1. A spider community because I ain't about that life as an arachnophobic person.
  2. 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.
  3. Entomology because I don't fuck with bugs.
  4. A few different AI communities because I try to avoid AI if possible.
  5. 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.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 17 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] vala@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rick and Morty com. No explanation needed.

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago
[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For Lemmy, kbin and piefed you can specifically choose which language posts you want to display if anyone doesn't want to go with instance blocking.

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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

So far none.
Only individual users.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I browse mostly by All/Everything, and it's about an 70/20/10 split of non-English communities, sports communities, and anime communities respectively.

The non-English communities are typically on non-English local instances (feddit.org, feddit.nl, jlai.lu, etc), but I don't want to block those instances entirely because their users will still participate in other communities in English and it's not their fault that I just don't speak the language.

The sports communities are just because I don't typically care for that type of content. There are only a couple of sports I actively follow, and within those sports I don't need to see communities dedicated to each and every specific team, so I just block to filter the ones I have no interest in.

As for the anime, I actually do love anime, but a lot of them are communities for specific series I'm not into (which, if I'm being frank, are almost all just utter shit-tier waifu bait material), and others are very creepy "X"-moe communities which just make me feel gross when they turn up (and for those, blocking a single user was enough to get rid of 99% of that).

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 7 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

Got the tankie triad in there. I switched from lemm.ee too and forgot to reblock those, mentioned that term in a comment thread on .ml and the content got removed for "bigotry". Reassures having them in there is a good idea.

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[–] termaxima@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I don't block entire instances, but I block every single community I'm not interested in - which probably adds up to over 500 by now. I tried blocking all the mean or extremist users, but that ended up completely killing my feed, since that seems to be about 80% of active commenters. So nowadays, I use content filters to screen for keywords in comments and posts. My list of keywords is quite substantial and keeps growing every week. At this point, I'd say about 50% of the threads on my homepage get filtered out. While I can’t know exactly how many comments are being hidden, I’d imagine it’s about the same.

Funnily enough, even after all that filtering, a significant portion of what still gets through is full of mean, snide remarks, tribalism, toxicity, negativity, doomerism, hopelessness, and that classic crabs-in-a-bucket mentality. A smart person would probably just give up and bail - but I guess I’m not that smart.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If everywhere you go smells like shit, it might be time to check your own shoes.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Nothing. I go through my feed raw and unfiltered .ml, hexbear, and everything

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