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Finally deleted my reddit account after the AI news. What communities do you recommend on lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.

Anyways, what communities do you recommend?

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[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 66 points 9 months ago

I want to stress that you are expected to block communities you're not interested in.

There's no content curation between instances (an instance is like a niche mini-reddit, but seamlessly connected to this one), so you will end up with US Politics next to Furry porn, next to Star Trek memes, next to NZ local news, next to sports statistics, next to AI Porn, unless you start blocking.

Upside is you can get great science content, AND local news, AND your favorite porn, AND your brand of shitpost/memes in your feed/subscriptions without any hassle.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So. Much. Furry. Porn.

I e basically gotten to a point where my subscriptions make up such a long list of things I’m even tangentially interested in that I don’t even browse all anymore. I locked so much of the furry porn, but maybe opening all of the communities to block them manually made my feed think I was into it?

[-] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lemmy doesn’t cater the All feed to you like other social media platforms - it doesn’t take into account which posts you open, which posts you upvote, etc.

[-] SundryTornAsunder@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago

I'm new here. I never realized how much I've always hated the entire concept of an algorithm until now. This is amazing.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

It's almost all on a couple instances. I don't remember if lemmy supports instance blocking yet, but several apps do, so it's a lot easier to block that way.

[-] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Lemmy supports instance blocking as of version 0.19. Some clients also support instance blocking for pre-0.19 instances.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

My client is just set to not display nsfw posts. I never see it and I've blocked very few communities.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I started an alt account on here for the porn subs and went to a porn specific instance, and my god, that was a lot of blocking, almost not worth the effort compared to what I have on my Reddit porn account.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

My biggest peeve is people who start many dozens of porn starlet comms with a handful of posts, or celebrity stalking comms with a handful of posts, or the myriad US sports teams fed by some bot.

I wish there was a way to just block whole categories of comms, now I've had to resort to blocking the user starting them, which seems like overkill.

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My biggest pet peeve is when an up and coming thot takes one pic and spams it everywhere.

I end up blocking a ton of content creators as a result of that. I don't need to see your same exact pic in 20 different communities.

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 2 points 9 months ago

My biggest pet peeve is that i don't know what a pet peeve is.

[-] autokludge@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

There are tons of moe-related anime communities that annoy the hell out of me. It’s insane and stupid af.

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