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?

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

LostWanderer ,

I've got hundreds of straight porn related communities blocked which were a lot of repeating themes which could be combined in one! Sprinkled in are some about sports, furries, and anime porn. I like exploring All and blocking the communities that don't speak to me. My block list is going to be huge before long, at the rate duplicates are made.

glimse OP ,

Oh man I totally agree about the repeating themes. That's true even on the non-porn communities...especially during the gold rush to copy every single subreddit but none of the rules that made them unique

I don't really use Lemmy for porn but I don't mind seeing it since I have NSFW posts blurred. Aside from sexuality/kinks I'm not into, I block a lot of communities with users that post like 20 things at once.

LostWanderer ,

Yeah, it's truly wild that the rules didn't transfer over (those were clearly written on each subreddit). The gold rush was poorly done, if it were better managed we'd have had a better default experience! Lemmy is one of several sources for unique erotic content (as gay NSFW is more scattered online). Often the only ones posting are the mods of said community so often I don't need to block them as it's all unique. I've almost fully curated my Lemmy experience now; since I've invested more time in this fediverse social platform.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I mostly just block users who post awful shit. But I have blocked a lot of niche Linux communities just because they were taking up most of the page and while I appreciate Linux, I'm not a super hardcore fanboy.

glimse OP ,

Oh yeah, I didn't think about the Linux communities...I do have a lot of those distro-specific ones blocked. And a bunch of communities for software I don't use

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.

avguser ,

My blocked community list got significantly shorter when they introduced instance blocking. Got pretty tired of playing furry porn community whackamole.

glimse OP ,

I have 7 instances blocked. I'm really glad that you can block instances while not blocking the users of those instances. Like I don't want to see any posts from yiffit but being a furry doesn't mean your comments aren't worth reading, ya know?

The other blocked instances are porn and language-specific instances just to clean up my feed

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

I would love it if blocking all users from an inatance was available as a separate option from the users. I think the majority of my blocked users are from two instances.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Hexbear and lemmy.ml?

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Yes, those two.

barsquid ,

The fact that you can so easily guess which two instances proves it would be a useful tool to be able to block all their users.

korny , (edited )

Good to know! I didn't want to miss out on @kolanaki comments, but now I won't have to worry about it.

Donut ,

I did. Those usernames are too distracting and shout "look at me!", so I'm filtering all of them.

glimse OP ,

I totally agree. Before I found the option to disable custom display names, I found that guy insufferable...2024 equivalent of xXxUSERNAMExXx. I don't think I've noticed him since, though I'm sure I've read his comments

simple ,
@simple@lemm.ee avatar

I'm this close to blocking ani.social as well because it's mostly softcore porn. I like Anime, but not like this.

glimse OP ,

I added that one fast for the same reason. I am not an anime-hater but there's way too much horny anime getting posted for my liking. Too many -chan characters that look basically identical middle schoolers.

Emperor ,
@Emperor@feddit.uk avatar

Got pretty tired of playing furry porn community whackamole.

Coincidentally, the furry porn whack-off-a-mole community is not very popular.

Enkers ,

Be the change you want to see. (:

Vex_Detrause ,

I'm gonna need a list of these ridiculous communities. You know, to block them. /S

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