How many communities do you have blocked?

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?

scrion ,

How do you guys block thousands of communities? I have blocked around 10. I can exhaust my /all feed around twice a day, there isn't even enough content showing up for me to block 1000+ communities.

Chozo ,
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LemmyWorld is already defederated from a lot of instances that the average user is likely to be blocking, anyway, so chances are those communities won't show up in your All feed to begin with.

Wanderer ,

How many is .ee blocking?

I signed up for what I thought was the most open connected free speech instance. But maybe I need to switch

Chozo ,
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On most Lemmy instances, you can go to the bottom of the front page and click the "Instances" link, and it'll show you all the other instances that one is connected to and which ones they block.

For Lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/instances

Wanderer ,

I feel like there is a crapload I'm not seeing

lord_ryvan ,

Seems like mine doesn't block anything?

https://ttrpg.network/instances

Thorny_Insight , (edited )

Running out of content to browse is not a bad thing in my view. Then I just go do something else.

Even on my subscribed feed about 5th of the threads are caught by my daily growing list of content filters. I lose nothing of a value by filtering out the noise from the signal. Still waiting for someone to come up with uBlock filter to block threads linking to specific websites.

glimse OP ,

If a community only has posts I scroll past anyway, why have them show up at all? I want to see an interesting post followed by an interesting post even if it means running out of posts. It's why I can't enjoy Instagram...every other post is an ad I have to scroll past to see what my friends post

AgentGrimstone ,
  1. Most of them are non english communities. Haven't had to block them in a while, I must have gotten all of them.
xkforce ,

How many communities are on lemmy.ml?

hark ,
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Zero.

TehBamski ,
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673 communities are blocked. Which, to be honest, is a hell of a lot more than I thought I had blocked. I thought I might have around 150 communities blocked. Most of them are sports, sports teams, video games I have no care for, weird ones, apps, gender communities, and furry oriented communities. I get around the porn ones by not having NSFW enabled.

MapleEngineer ,
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A lot. Not sure how many. Hundreds. Lots of the porn communities for shit that I'm not interested in. Most of the vegan communities. Anime and furry porn, twinks and ladyboys, any women/girls with penises, bondage porn, any community that's just an endless stream of pissing and moaning, tankies and fascists, bimbos and anything that glorifies plastic in female bodies, anything to do with unhealthy bodies, proana, etc. some local communities where I don't live, a fucking baseball communities that posts 100 times a day and lots of team communities. Lots of communities on .ML

I browse all so that I see new communities as they emerge then block them if I'm not interested.

dream_weasel ,

You forgot all the Montero and coin communities! It's a good start though to be sure.

Blackmist ,

The tankie trio, and a load of gay/trans stuff I have no interest in seeing.

Darkassassin07 ,
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Almost 200 pretty much exclusively from lemmynsfw before you could block a whole instance.

Once they added that, I've blocked very very few communities.

Tugboater203 ,
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Same here, instance blocking was a nice add on that I wish we had earlier.

obsolete ,
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Memes, politics and gay/gender stuff.

Psythik ,

Blocking Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Lemmy.ml fixed 99% of my issues with this place.

NaoPb ,

Oh right, I think I blocked those too.

RampantParanoia2365 ,

I don't know, but it's mostly memes and gay stuff.

getseclectic , (edited )

I exclusively browse All and have blocked 615 communities and 2 instances.

Is there a way to block non English content? The last time I looked into this, you could choose to only see English content, but that would also filter out all content which didn't have a language specified. This made the filtering unviable because most content doesn't specify the language and most content is in English.

glimse OP ,

I set my language and don't see a lot of non-English communities but I'm not sure if those two things are related. I don't mind filtering them out, it's no more than a couple per week

AFKBRBChocolate ,

You can choose both English and "unspecified." You'll still see some non-English stuff when people don't set the language, but it will filter out all of the posts where the language is set to something else.

getseclectic ,

Thanks, will try that!

antidote101 ,

28, all the gay porn, yiff/furry, and male anatomy ones that I've caught while browsing c/all.

glimse OP ,

Does the app you use let you block posts from an instance while not blocking the comments? If so, something to consider for yiffit.

KillingTimeItself ,

the yiffit users out in the wild are the funniest ones to me.

KillingTimeItself ,

i wasn't even aware that was a thing you could do, but i suppose it makes sense.

Oh and it's none just for the record.

Sunny ,
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Got 20 communities blocked and coincidentally 20 users blocked 🙃

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