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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

kindenough ,
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336 apparently, I did not realize I blocked that many.

glimse OP ,

It adds up!

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

hark ,
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Zero.

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.

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.

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

Trollception ,

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

fart_pickle ,

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

XEAL ,

Around 40 communities of irrelevant or annoying stuff.

ALERT ,
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1500+

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