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?

HubertManne ,

Im on kbin and it does not show a total but I block anything in languages I don't know or that seems to be all memes or sports related but certainly not anime or porn.

glimse OP ,

Since you're an anime enjoyer, I have a question: do you ever find that there's a lack of variety in the art styles? I was pretty into it in the 90s/2000s but it seems like there's a new anime every week that looks identical to the one before it

HubertManne ,

Yes but I think thats a bit the same with all media. There is still tons of relatively recent anime that is really unique like attack on titan or To Your Eternity or even spy family.

glimse OP ,

I saw the first two seasons of AoT and liked it a lot. It has a well-defined art style. My only "complaint" is that I had a hard time telling a few characters apart

Do you know the word/name for the art style I described in my other comment? I call it "kawaii anime" but I know that's not right lol

HubertManne ,

Im sorta a poser when it comes to fandom. I like stuff but I don't have the obsession that drives really getting into a lot of details. So I totally don't know are styles and such. Its sorta like museums. I like to go and I like what I like but I don't necessarily have great depth of knowledge of art style or periods or such. Its only due to memes that I know the getting sucked into a fantasy world has a name and I can't even recall that atm. I mean I could google it right now but I just don't care much that the particular term is X but if someone mentions it in a convo I will likely remember that what they are talking about with context clues. im thinking its like ikea with an s somewhere and i or something.

glimse OP ,

IKEA anime actually works really well for what I'm describing lol

Not necessarily bad but it is bland and unoriginal. The main difference for this analogy is that I wouldn't consider IKEA to be childlike

HubertManne ,

lol. not my intention but cool. Maybe it will become a thing.

MacedWindow ,
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I have two accounts. One has all the more serious news type stuff blocked and the other is unfiltered. Its nice to be able to take a break from reading about war and disease. I get most of that news from Mastadon anyway.

Peppycito ,
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That's a good idea. I've blocked so much almost all I get is depressing news. They need to let you export blocked lists. Mines so long it's probably worth something.

pruwybn ,
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Just 5 - 3 from hexbear, 1 quasi NSFW that keeps popping up (I have NSFW turned off), and the Far Side one because they're a lot less funny and more boomer humor than I remember.

glimse OP ,

I get you but I disagree about Far Side because it's almost entirely wholesome. Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is

As opposed to humor boomers actually like...

glimse OP ,

Boomer humor is not all humor that boomers like. It's humor that was primarily popular in their era - like "I hate my wife" jokes fit because don't really play well anymore

AFKBRBChocolate ,

My point is that lots and lots of us didn't really love that kind of stuff at the time. It's just that those kinds of jokes stand out, along with race jokes, because they've aged so badly.

glimse OP ,

It must suck to be a "normal" boomer in the internet getting lumped in with the shitheads of your demographic. Hell...you're the ones who pushed the civil rights movement.

It's a shame your generation (not you specifically, of course) fucked the world up to the point that every generation after you looks back in disgust and doesn't even consider the things you did right.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

What sucks is that people attribute stuff like that to the whole generation; we get painted broadly as very right wing conservatives who are against any social programs. But look at things like the age demographics of the last couple presidential elections. Yes, you'll see that more older people voted conservative than liberal, but not by a large margin. You'll also see that, though more younger folks voted liberal, that margin wasn't huge either. And in our society, it's not unusual for folks to get more conservative as they get older (the opposite for me personally, but it's often true), so it won't be surprising if younger folks today vote more conservatively when they're older.

Huge hunks of boomers are fighting for equal rights for all people, are big proponents of social programs that help those who are disadvantaged, advocate for universal healthcare, and all sorts of other progressive issues. Large numbers of younger people are against those things. The fact that total numbers might tip one way or another doesn't change that, and applying a stereotype to millions of people is always wrong.

glimse OP ,

I think it's really the policies pushed by the politicians that your generation voted in that led to the boomer hate. My generation will surely be remembered for Trump just like yours for Reagan

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Okay, but there were go again. Remember that the oldest boomers were in their mid 30s when Regan was first elected. Take a look at these demographics. Boomers were the ones mostly voting for Carter.

glimse OP ,

Sorry I think we're on the same page here, my generation is largely anti-trump but we're going to be remembered for voting him in. I was trying to draw the comparison of falsely placed blame.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

I understand, and I didn't mean to come off too strong, but you have no idea how many times I've seen people in these communities saying that all boomers are horrible, some even going so far as to say that the world would be better if we were all dead. Unironically. Can you image the backlash if someone said that about any other demographic? A gender? A race? It gets a bit frustrating to be worse than dismissed because of the year I was born, regardless of the fact that I'm a pretty progressive liberal on the same side as most of the people doing the dismissing.

blargerer ,

30ish

someguy3 ,

All those fucking Moe ones. Don't think I can see that on jerboa, maybe 10?

lvxferre ,
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Zero - I browse by subscribed. I probably have 100~200 comms subscribed to through this account, plus a dozen in my ani.social account.

Nemo ,

samesies

Sotuanduso ,
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29 communities, mostly news. I'm here for memes, not links to articles.

Also a few atheism communities, because I'm not a fan of seeing posts bashing my religion from a community where the rules forbid me from saying anything in its defense.

Sotuanduso ,
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To be clear, I'm not trying to say it's unfair for atheism communities to have those rules. Your community, your rules. But if I'm seeing those posts, I'm going to be bothered, and if I respond, I'm going to break the rules and bother everyone else. Better to not see it in the first place.

In the same way, I'd expect atheists to block a Christian community if it were trending - though I'd be willing to meet them in constructive debate in such a community if the rules permitted it.

Blocking is a community is how I control my personal feed, it's not a condemnation.

glimse OP ,

I'm "atheist" but I can't stand the atheism subs. There's just not much to talk about. You could replace them with one post titled "religion sure is stupid, right??" and nothing would be lost.

Sotuanduso ,
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Makes sense. You don't exactly have atheist scriptures to study and discuss, and you're not going to have any atheological discussions on how nature reflects the lack of a god.

glimse OP ,

Yep. I don't like calling myself an atheist because I can't stand emphatic atheists. I'm not gonna define my identity by what I don't believe and I could not care less about what other people believe as long as what they practice isn't harmful. If religion brings you joy and you aren't oppressing someone in it's practice, why should I have an opinion on it? You do you!

Ephera ,

Well, there can be some things to talk about, like if you live in a country that's mostly religious, then how did you find a romantic partner, or how did you "come out" to your parents etc..

But the "Religion, am I right?"-posts are easy to make and will naturally get a lot more upvotes than a discussion post, so the latter get buried, unfortunately.

Emperor ,
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I don't block any but, as an Admin, I tend to check on all communities (theoretically) in case there's shenanigans. As I am on a smaller instance Local is manageable and then I use Subscribed. All is too much of a firehose of content to use much. So I am more opt-in than opt-out.

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)

Glad you like it.

Hypx ,
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I've basically blocked all meme communities.

Shady_Shiroe ,
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I'm only here for the memes

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tal ,
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I don't blacklist.

I whitelist, view Subscribed rather than All.

What I want to go hunting for new communities to subscribe to, I use lemmyverse.net, which can see all of the communities on the Threadiverse, not just the ones that someone on my instance has subscribed to.

TexasDrunk ,

I browse all, but I've only blocked a couple of dozen. Every one is just a language I don't understand or American football (I'm just not a fan). But I have a "disable NSFW" button on my client so I use that if I'm in public.

I don't mind seeing things in my feed that aren't my thing as long as they don't take over.

Gerudo ,

I have my main feed as no NSFW. I might have half a dozen blocked.

My NSFW feed, probably has 40+ blocked.

Drusas ,

Don't know how to check, but I am on mbin, not Lemmy.

NaClKnight ,
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Wait, you're blocking porn, sports, and anime?

Those are the fun parts...

intelisense ,

Nope, porn sport and anime bore me to tears... all blocked, plus a bunch of hyper-regional communities (sorry, Seattle, I'm in Europe, so the internal affairs of your city have little interest to me). I also had to block c/India because it kept getting pushed into my /all list.

glimse OP ,

I actually really like the regional communities lol

I know a lot about Bedfordshire now!

NaClKnight ,
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Blocking regional communities is one thing, sure.

I was partially joking, but anime, cartoons, sports, and some tasteful/ethical NSFW are all topics I'm hella interested in but don't get much play here. There's basically no boxing/MMA/basketball/football here.

Each day i feel too normie for this place

I'm not into the skinny models that most porn features and a lot of irl porn comes with a host of ethical issues,

Ephera ,

Yeah, same about c/india. It kind of annoys me, because I would have been interested in some of their culture, food etc., but it was just a ton of posts and mostly about politics...

glimse OP ,

Porn: there's so much of it on here. If I didn't block most of it, it'd be half my feed

Sports: I simply do not give a shit about the stats of some cricket game I didn't know about

Anime: I'm frankly just sick of the art style that so much of it shares. I don't dislike anime as a rule but for a lot of shows, you could drop any character into another anime and they'd fit right in. And on top of that, I can't stand the hyper sexualization of immature female characters that is so prevalent in the genre. I don't think middle schoolers are hot so I don't like when "sexy" characters act like one

NaClKnight ,
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Sure! Your reasons are valid and I'm not asking you to defend them.

I certainly don't like everything in any of those categories either. I've got slices I'm into, but yeah, the broad categories are def part of my interests.

Ephera ,

Interesting. Here on lemmy.ml, none of the porn shows up, because I guess, it's blocked at the instance level. Unfortunately, I do still get horny anime posts every so often...

glimse OP ,

Lemmynsfw must not be federated with lemmy.ml and that's where it's concentrated so that makes sense. Horny anime posts are an instant block for me and I think I've taken care of most of them. I usually just see the -moe communities pop up now.

Isoprenoid ,

About 65 communities. It's either due to them being too active so they flood my feed, or if most of the content is ragebait (e.g. politics based)

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