None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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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.
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.
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.
Mostly murican politics, politics memes, trump/musk stuff (it's like playing whac-a-mole), some anime and furry stuff.
Pretty much all non English/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian instances. No point having them in my feed if I can't read them.
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.
So many good communities don't have a language set, either because they didn't bother or they are multiligual.
Yeah, but if the community doesn't properly set their ~~package~~ language, they may end up breaking through depending on your setup.
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.
I have stopped using the "All" feed for that reason, it's best to find communities that you're interested in and only look at those in my experience. Finding them without the All feed is the challenge though. I've found Lemmy to be quite nice when it was new, but it seems this is the way all communities go when they reach a certain size.
Using “All” is the best way to find those. How else are you really supposed to?
My app ( Boost) used to have a "random subreddit" button that I really liked, but it got removed a couple years ago when reddit changed their TOS, but something like that could be really nice
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ZeroBytes.monster I don't want a reddit bot in my feed. I wanted a clean break during the reddit 3rd party app backstabbing.
I block the German ones cause I don’t understand the posts, and all the stupid green text 4chan stuff.
Most of them I don't know why. I just came back to this account because of lemm.ee.
Lemmygrad.ml seems kinda obvious, but I have a completely naive question about lemmy.ml. Is it essentially the same? Why is it a controversial instance.
Based on just the sidebar description it sounds like a cool instance: A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers
But I also see a lot of people saying they have it blocked
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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.
the extremist ones and the porn ones. include triad, i dont block bahaj one, as i have no issues with it.
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.
Lemmy.today and hilariouschaos.com for the same reason
All the Sports and racing stuff. They're really spammy and i just don't care about sports.
All communities with AI generated content.
Religion
Hexbear, AuthLeft
Advertising communities
Political parties
"General", unspecified non-meme communities (nowherelsetopost etc)
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)
I don't block much but I do have a couple of filters that do good work on Piefed.
*meme*
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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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.
None yet! Are there any I should be wary of?
Because you get it back in the form of services and perks.
None, although there's an ADHD sub that pops up often that is annoying and ive comsidered blocking it