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?

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

Gerudo ,

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

My NSFW feed, probably has 40+ blocked.

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.

MxM111 ,
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Only those with other languages that I do not understand and that somehow still show on my feed.

AgentGrimstone ,
  1. Most of them are non english communities. Haven't had to block them in a while, I must have gotten all of them.
xkforce ,

How many communities are on lemmy.ml?

RampantParanoia2365 ,

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

seaQueue ,
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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.

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.

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

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

Drusas ,

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

blargerer ,

30ish

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.

yukichigai ,
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Zero. Every time I've been on the verge of blocking a community (or instance, since kbin can do that) it winds up vanishing anyway.

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