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?

sag ,
@sag@lemm.ee avatar

hexbear, lemmygrad and all news communities. Also turn off the NSFW post.

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!

eyy ,

I mostly use All as well. I have the following blocked:

  • all the meme communities that pop up. It's just spammy posts

  • all beehaw communities. Mostly because they were defederated with the largest lemmy communities, and I didn't want to talk to only a small subset of users. Not sure if they've changed anything since

  • hexbear because... Hexbear

glimse OP ,

Meme communities are "content" in the worst sense of the word. No substance, just sludge

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.

Default_Defect ,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

None, the insanity I sometimes encounter can be entertaining. I'll just log off if its too much.

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 ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Would have to be fairly frequently updated and constantly monitored.

Rikj000 ,
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Only these 2:

Because they:

  • Spam up your feed
  • Spread depressing content (since it attracts more attention thus earns them more)
  • Try to manipulate you
Bo7a , (edited )

Earns them more what? There are no ads here unless you locked yourself into an app that pushes them.

Rikj000 ,
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Each article,
links to a news site,
which is riddled with data trackers,
which collects info about you,
which is sold.

In addition the sites contain advertisements.

Bo7a ,

The 'them' in your first comment was pretty obviously about the lemmy admins on those servers profiting from doom scrolling. Now you are talking about "news" sites selling your data.

This sounds like something you made up to not be wrong. It is ok to be wrong. Just incorporate the new info and move on.

Rikj000 ,
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

How do you think news sites earn money?
They do not provide that content for free,
you are their product of which they benefit.

I use NoScript,
which tells me about each JavaScript piece a website has, most if not all of them contain trackers (= data collection).

Ephera ,

Or you guys just misunderstood each other. It is ok to misunderstand each other once in a while. No one needs to be declare right or wrong for this interaction.

Bo7a ,

Fair enough. Cheers,

ALERT ,
@ALERT@sh.itjust.works avatar

1500+

JakenVeina ,

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

tja ,
@tja@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yeah I have a similar strategy

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.

rufus ,

I just watch subscribed communities. To me that's just too much noise. So I haven't blocked any.

glimse OP ,

How do you know what to sub to? I've found Lemmy's search to be even worse than reddit's due to federation causing tons of "duplicate" communities

rufus ,

Idk. There have been some sites recommending the alternative to a subreddit. I scrolled through that. And put keywords for my interests into the search bar. Occasionally I spend some minutes scrolling through the 'All' feed and subscribing. Or when somebody links a crosspost. Over time I've also unsubscribed from lemmy.ml communities because I don't agree with their moderation practices. Found alternatives to that. And I've unsubscribed from most of the news communities, because reading about world politics is weighing me down and this place (Lemmy) is a lot about discussing the news.

I'm subscribed to roughly 100 communities now. Some of them are duplicates or a wasteland, that's just how it is. But I like that this way, my feed is somehow tailored to my interests. And there is no doom-scrolling any more, which I like too.

glimse OP ,

Fair enough! It's nice that we can tailor our experiences in completely different ways.

XEAL ,

Around 40 communities of irrelevant or annoying stuff.

Andromxda ,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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

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    glimse OP ,

    I'm with you there. It took me a bit to block some trans communities because I felt like it made me a bigot despite being an ally. I just have nothing to add to the conversation so it's the same as sports communities - just something I scrolled past anyway

    snooggums ,
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    It would be cool to be able to set communities to 'read only' so I could read the comments, but replies would be disabled or would pop up with a 'you have set this community to read only' warning first to discourage myself from engaging. This would work for a lot of LGBTQ+ communities where I don't have anything substantial to add the vast majority of the time, but am still interested in learning. The read only part would help to keep me from goofing up when tired/stoned/drunk.

    Not worth development time though, since the same outcome can come from self control.

    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.

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