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?

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

fart_pickle ,

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

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.

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.

seaQueue ,
@seaQueue@lemmy.world avatar

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.

psion1369 ,

You can block communities?

glimse OP ,

Yes. Not sure what app you use but for me I click the dots in the corner of a post and pick Block Community and Block User

Hadriscus ,

It works on Jerboa

SquiffSquiff ,

Current version of Lemmy supports this natively

Trollception ,

I try to block communities discussing politics, cringe memes and Linux. I have about 50 blocked at the moment.

lil ,
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3, i don't remember why i blocked them

  1. !Risa
  2. !Entomology
  3. !Science_Memes
glimse OP ,

You probably blocked Risa for the same reason I did....wayyyyyy too many posts. It was half my feed before I blocked it.

Science_memes is basically just a generic meme sub and is very close to hitting my blocklist for the same reason

Entomology...I don't even have a guess. Are you grossed out by bugs, maybe?

lil ,
@lil@lemy.lol avatar

You are very good at guessing

Atomic ,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/d049c14b-929c-4e22-89b0-c11839b73f18.jpeg

Thought there would be more. But I block em as I see em.

The irony about "enough musk spam" is they're the ones spamming the most.

glimse OP ,

The second-to-last one made me actually laugh out loud. What the fuck is that title lol

Aboringdystopia is one of those communities that doesn't resemble its namesake at all. The subreddit had rules to match the theme but the Lemmy equivalent is just the same news articles of shitty things happening that appear on all the other news communities. They're so lax about what constitutes "a boring dystopia," it feels so lazy to me

Ephera ,

From what I've heard, that was the idea behind the Enough Musk Spam community, that the spam could be posted there and people could block it.
But yeah, it's a bit counterintuitive...

Legend , (edited )

I too browse like you and have blocked too much communities to keep track of .

BonesOfTheMoon ,

No communities, but I blocked the whole Lemmy NSFW instance because I am not into porn and autoplay GIFs in my feed is not to my liking. (you all do you I just don't care for it).

SquiffSquiff ,

700 at last count

I block all communities based around a single sports team and most sports, also any based around a geographic location smaller than national-level. Anything based around a state, city, town etc is always negative.

glimse OP ,

I kinda like those regional communities for some reason!

laverabe ,

over 30. I personally prefer more serious discussion because I'm a dork. I'm not into most sports, jokes, video games or other whimsical stuff. I like some of that stuff IRL, but I consider the internet primarily of use for deeper discussion of topics that most people might not necessarily have an interest in. Like NASAs nuclear powered project Orion spacecraft in the 1960s.

Peoples eyes normally glaze over when I talk about that stuff offline, but there are billions online, and usually someone else finds that niche stuff as interesting as me.

It would be nice if you could select which topics interest you rather than having to block every community that does not.

glimse OP ,

Niche communities are what makes the internet great.

It would be nice if you could select which topics interest you rather than having to block every community that does not.

I mean you kinda can do exactly that through subscriptions. Sub to the places you like and browse your main feed instead of All

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!

Ephera ,

492, apparently. Mostly bot communities, (US) politics, anime and tons of communities for specific sports teams, TV shows, games, technologies etc..

glimse OP ,

Well another commenter just told me that blocking sports and anime is equivalent to an echo chamber so we both better unblock them to have a healthier worldview /s

I forgot about the game subs in my estimate...I've got a lot of those blocked. I just don't care about patch notes for games I don't play.

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