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?

sin_free_for_00_days ,

I thought I blocked a lot, but seeing the posts here, I don't block nearly enough. I have about 100 communities and about 60 users blocked.

sag ,
@sag@lemm.ee avatar

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

RagingHungryPanda ,

I have two bot accounts and five servers

glimse OP ,

No communities though?

I have 42 users blocked. Mostly bots but some spammy accounts, too.

RagingHungryPanda ,

Actually I think I do, but I'm not seeing them in the sync app. I've definitely blocked porn communities. Bots too.

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,

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

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