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?

someguy3 ,

All those fucking Moe ones. Don't think I can see that on jerboa, maybe 10?

blargerer ,

30ish

pruwybn ,
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Just 5 - 3 from hexbear, 1 quasi NSFW that keeps popping up (I have NSFW turned off), and the Far Side one because they're a lot less funny and more boomer humor than I remember.

glimse OP ,

I get you but I disagree about Far Side because it's almost entirely wholesome. Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is

As opposed to humor boomers actually like...

glimse OP ,

Boomer humor is not all humor that boomers like. It's humor that was primarily popular in their era - like "I hate my wife" jokes fit because don't really play well anymore

AFKBRBChocolate ,

My point is that lots and lots of us didn't really love that kind of stuff at the time. It's just that those kinds of jokes stand out, along with race jokes, because they've aged so badly.

glimse OP ,

It must suck to be a "normal" boomer in the internet getting lumped in with the shitheads of your demographic. Hell...you're the ones who pushed the civil rights movement.

It's a shame your generation (not you specifically, of course) fucked the world up to the point that every generation after you looks back in disgust and doesn't even consider the things you did right.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

What sucks is that people attribute stuff like that to the whole generation; we get painted broadly as very right wing conservatives who are against any social programs. But look at things like the age demographics of the last couple presidential elections. Yes, you'll see that more older people voted conservative than liberal, but not by a large margin. You'll also see that, though more younger folks voted liberal, that margin wasn't huge either. And in our society, it's not unusual for folks to get more conservative as they get older (the opposite for me personally, but it's often true), so it won't be surprising if younger folks today vote more conservatively when they're older.

Huge hunks of boomers are fighting for equal rights for all people, are big proponents of social programs that help those who are disadvantaged, advocate for universal healthcare, and all sorts of other progressive issues. Large numbers of younger people are against those things. The fact that total numbers might tip one way or another doesn't change that, and applying a stereotype to millions of people is always wrong.

glimse OP ,

I think it's really the policies pushed by the politicians that your generation voted in that led to the boomer hate. My generation will surely be remembered for Trump just like yours for Reagan

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Okay, but there were go again. Remember that the oldest boomers were in their mid 30s when Regan was first elected. Take a look at these demographics. Boomers were the ones mostly voting for Carter.

glimse OP ,

Sorry I think we're on the same page here, my generation is largely anti-trump but we're going to be remembered for voting him in. I was trying to draw the comparison of falsely placed blame.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

I understand, and I didn't mean to come off too strong, but you have no idea how many times I've seen people in these communities saying that all boomers are horrible, some even going so far as to say that the world would be better if we were all dead. Unironically. Can you image the backlash if someone said that about any other demographic? A gender? A race? It gets a bit frustrating to be worse than dismissed because of the year I was born, regardless of the fact that I'm a pretty progressive liberal on the same side as most of the people doing the dismissing.

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.

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.

dhtseany ,

I've blocked 15 instances for overall spam/trash comments and 210 individuals subs so far.

Furrys, anime, spam, porn, alt-right, etc.

glimse OP ,

I don't think I've seen any far right stuff but I'm on .world which probably defederated already

kindenough ,
@kindenough@kbin.social avatar

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

glimse OP ,

It adds up!

yukichigai ,
@yukichigai@kbin.social avatar

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.

scrion ,

How do you guys block thousands of communities? I have blocked around 10. I can exhaust my /all feed around twice a day, there isn't even enough content showing up for me to block 1000+ communities.

Chozo ,
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LemmyWorld is already defederated from a lot of instances that the average user is likely to be blocking, anyway, so chances are those communities won't show up in your All feed to begin with.

Wanderer ,

How many is .ee blocking?

I signed up for what I thought was the most open connected free speech instance. But maybe I need to switch

Chozo ,
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On most Lemmy instances, you can go to the bottom of the front page and click the "Instances" link, and it'll show you all the other instances that one is connected to and which ones they block.

For Lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/instances

Wanderer ,

I feel like there is a crapload I'm not seeing

lord_ryvan ,

Seems like mine doesn't block anything?

https://ttrpg.network/instances

Thorny_Insight , (edited )

Running out of content to browse is not a bad thing in my view. Then I just go do something else.

Even on my subscribed feed about 5th of the threads are caught by my daily growing list of content filters. I lose nothing of a value by filtering out the noise from the signal. Still waiting for someone to come up with uBlock filter to block threads linking to specific websites.

glimse OP ,

If a community only has posts I scroll past anyway, why have them show up at all? I want to see an interesting post followed by an interesting post even if it means running out of posts. It's why I can't enjoy Instagram...every other post is an ad I have to scroll past to see what my friends post

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.

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

wesker ,
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I'm heavy handed with blocking.

I block all the major NSFW instances. Non-english speaking instances. A few of the terminally argumentative instances.

Quite a few communities that cover topics or issues I don't care to read about. And some that are low effort article spam pits.

I block people that want to argue about substanceless nonsense, or try to low-effort goad me.

Bots are also blocked in settings.

7heo ,

That, plus all the obvious propaganda, dogmatic echo chambers, and people who misspell stuff voluntarily, or make extremely basic mistakes ("your wrong", "its that", "there logic", etc) more than once.

Thorny_Insight ,

Glad I'm not the only one ruthlessly blocking people for petty reasons. I deliberately go into controversial threads just to find the "fuck X", ACAB, eat the rich etc. comments only to block the users. If that's your style of commenting then I'm not interested in what else you've got to say. I don't mind disagreement. I'm simply just not interested in seeing that kind of low effort shitposting on my feed.

glimse OP ,

"I NEED to be the first to post this popular sentiment but I have literally nothing else to add"

owenfromcanada ,
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I actually have no idea--I primarily use Eternity, and I'm not sure whether the "block community" button is a Lemmy thing or an Eternity thing.

But mainly I've blocked bot-post communities, furry stuff, and anything else that vomits dozens of posts in a row (I've got NSFW blocked, so c/all is pretty manageable).

Mellow12 ,

I do the same thing. I use all as my home page so I can see new and interesting stuff.

I tend to block most 'ism and 'ism-adjacent communities, Foreign language communities, political communities, NSFW/Fetish, and a few highly specific tech/app/language communities that mostly only post version updates.

Bots. lots of bots. If your community is 90% bot posts/repost aggregation and I see 5-10 posts consecutively in 'all' because your bot just vomited up it's entire load in a 120 second span then I'll probably block it.

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glimse OP ,

There's way too many communities consisting solely of bots reposting from the subreddit of the same name. I do not understand why anyone would want that. There's rarely comments

Ephera ,

Leaving a comment feels weird, too. There's not even an OP to talk to, so it's like shouting into the void.

In principle, I do get the need for these communities. Like, if you just want capybara pictures to show up in your feed, then you don't need many comments on those.
But these bots usually spit out far too many posts for my liking, so more often than not, I do block them anyways.

glimse OP ,

Bot-driven communities feel like ads as opposed to communities with bots that post, say, game patch notes automatically. I want there to be a reason something is posted other than to fill a void

AFKBRBChocolate ,

A crap ton of them - too many to count quickly. My intent was to sort by subscribed, but we're still getting a lot of new communities, so I mostly sort by new, and block communities I have no interest in or that spam a lot. The most common categories are gay porn, bot-generated content, and overly prolific meme communities.

glimse OP ,

bot-generated content, and overly prolific meme communities.

What, do you want to relive Reddit's Greatest Hits 20 different communities??

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Yeah, kind of dumb. I didn't mind it as much if it's a community for posting pics or videos, as long as the bot isn't dumping huge numbers of posts. What really annoys me is when they do it for communities that are more discussion based. They were doing it in AITA and other question-oriented ones. It makes no sense: someone asks a question on Reddit and people here are going to answer it?

glimse OP ,

Hooollyy shit I totally forgot about those and had the exact same complaint! If I'm remembering correctly, at least some of those communities were from bots not flagged as bots. So you had people replying because they didn't know...

They were some of my early blocklist entries for sure

AFKBRBChocolate ,

Yep, mine too. If I could take care of the problem by blocking the account, I did that, but a lot of times I ended up blocking the community.

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