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?

3volver ,

I blocked /c/unpopularopinion after they deleted one of my posts, shut down the sublemmy, and then re-opened it with the rule "NO POLITICS".

Meanwhile, the top fucking post is "I think people in prison should be allowed to vote".

This is the type of shit guys.

glimse OP ,

That community, as well as the subreddit it came from, is a dumpster fire. It'd 99% bait or popular opinions.

I do agree with their no politics stance, though. There's 473773 communities to argue politics on already

3volver ,

Unpopular opinion with no politics is like having an art subreddit which only allows images of blank white painted walls. Boring as fuck.

glimse OP ,

Eh I disagree unless you use the right wing definition of which is "politics is politics plus anything I don't like"

There's a ton of fun stuff to argue about.

3volver ,

I just personally don't care to discuss trivial nonsense. Who gives a shit if someone likes their toast to be burnt?

glimse OP ,

It's just a conversation starter. The comments in those posts about weird opinions can be pretty funny

snownyte ,
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The subreddit is really shit though. I've had posts removed where it wasn't political, but got removed because "UHHHH IT NO AN UNPOPULAR OPINION! UHHH!!"

When, just gazing at the front page of the subreddit, you'll find dozens of shit that were allowed to be posted that contradicts the entire meaning of the subreddit itself at every second.

The problem is that the moderators just cannot handle it when someone truly has something spicy of an unpopularopinion to express that isn't gender, race or politically related.

card797 ,

If a community has reddit in the title. I block.

glimse OP ,

Don't want to see people bitch about a site you don't use eh?

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.

eldavi ,

getting a challenge to your world views can be healthy; i hope you enjoy your echo chamber

glimse OP ,

Uhh that's why I browse All, my dude.

But thanks to your obnoxious comment, I now understand that sports, porn, and anime are a "worldview" and I'm unhealthy for blocking them. You are right, my life would be better if I knew that the Dodgers were trading Jimmy McBaseball. Not sure how I lived without seeing hardcore anal porn or Generic Anime on my feed every day

therealjcdenton , (edited )
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A lot, I've blocked all political, non-english, and anime communities that show up

Asidonhopo ,
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302

glimse OP ,

Whatcha got on there?

Asidonhopo ,
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Porn, anime, sports, a bunch of video games I don't play, and some spammy or obnoxious communities too. Oh, and foreign languages I don't speak (until we get built-in translation)

Asudox Mod ,
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Zero. I don't need to block communities as I only browse subscriptions.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

About 330. A crap ton of porn stuff, furry, bondage, etc. Several non-English communities. Operating system related stuff like Linux or android. A few “normal” communities that are on instances that don’t allow much dissent or contrary opinion.

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.

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.

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

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.

RampantParanoia2365 ,

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

obsolete ,
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Memes, politics and gay/gender stuff.

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