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?

Thorny_Insight , (edited )

I just counted it yesterday. 500 communities (for a large part porn, anime and foreign ones) and 550 users.

Still waiting for someone to come up with uBlock filter to also block threads linking to specific websites.

toiletobserver ,

I have that feature in the app i use. Sync.

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah many apps have features natively that I need to come up with workarounds for. I personally just don't want to use an app for something I can also do in browser. The less apps I have on my phone the better.

glimse OP ,

Wow that's a lot of users!

uhmbah ,

Over a thousand, for sure? I hate memes. I'm just scrolling light conversations. No deep politics or debates. No depressing news, anime, etc

glimse OP ,

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

friend_of_satan ,

I've blocked over 1000 communities.

glimse OP ,

How would you describe your blocklist? Like what categories and what ratio between them?

friend_of_satan , (edited )

All things I'm not interested in that tend to fall into these categories:

  • hyperlocal geographies
  • sports
  • specific games
  • specific hobbies
  • programming languages and other technologies
  • porn
  • meme groups about subcultures I'm not a part of
  • shitposting
  • subs where it seems everything is cross posted to another sub
  • pretty much all music subs (i'm not here for music)
  • pretty much all video subs (i'm not here for videos)

Edit: I've probably also blocked a handful of obscurely named subs that have no description or shit descriptions. Like a sub called grobslafup and the description is "everything related to grobslafup!" As if people know what the obscure thing is but don't know that a sub titled after it is going to be related to it. 🙄

glimse OP ,

Now I want to know more about grobslafup

seaQueue ,
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Here? Not many, I sub to things I find interesting and browse my subscribed feed.

Reddit? Hundreds of subreddits if not more. If it's full of rage or engagement bait, intolerance or it's a community devoted to punching down I've probably blocked it.

Adderbox76 ,

It's hard to say. I use a keyword block that auto-blocks any community with "meme" in its title. So it could be dozens, or even hundreds. I've never counted. I have similar keywords for things I'm not interested in like "waifu", "anime", and most stuff adjacent to those topics.

wonderfulvoltaire ,
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At least 20, most of them are political or I can't understand what they're saying so I don't want to post because of an incorrect translation to prevent unnecessary offense.

fart_pickle ,

I've blocked 40ish instances and hundreds of communities. Everything I find boring, not interesting or trying too hard.

notfromhere ,

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.

viking ,
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Would have to be fairly frequently updated and constantly monitored.

viking ,
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I've blocked 10 or so instances and over 500 individual communities. Mostly by browsing /new and just killing anything I don't have the slightest interest in.

The instances I've blocked are leftist, furry, porn and anime related, plus one that's hosting sports communities exclusively.

JakenVeina ,

I also browse exclusively all. I only bother blocking the non-English and porn communities. Looks like that's 315, for me.

tja ,
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Yeah I have a similar strategy

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

No specific communities, just the entire instance of hexbear.net (lemmygrad.ml is already blocked on my instance)

XEAL ,

Around 40 communities of irrelevant or annoying stuff.

gigachad ,

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.

ALERT ,
@ALERT@sh.itjust.works avatar

1500+

ryven ,
@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Zero. I typically browse All/Top 6 Hours. Nothing bothers me enough to want to block it.

Nycto ,

I do the same load but I have lots of blocks to keep down the static of things I am not interested in. Saves me some scrolling.

Iceblade02 ,

Yep, and if I wanted a filtered feed I'd view subscribed.

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