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"Elon" "Musk" "Trump" "Donald"

1. A spider community because I ain't about that life as an arachnophobic person.
2. A bunch of minecraft communities because I completely ditched the game after they decided that Java players aren't allowed to use adult words anymore on their private single player worlds and also because of the whole chat thing where all messages you send are linked to your specific account.
3. Entomology because I don't fuck with bugs.
4. A few different AI communities because I try to avoid AI if possible.
5. A community about dicks and dick pics. Not my cup of tea and I don't feel like seeing them on any feed since I don't blur NSFW images.

Those are just a few. The rest are minor things or other communities that are the same thing essentially, but on different instances.

The whole lemmynsfw instance. Don't need that distraction here.

Text filters - any keywords for news topics that I've had enough of (mostly reoccurring political topics)

Weird meme shit from some strange community (or something that is just not my generation) - block the whole community.

A poster who's engaging in bad faith - blocked, never to be heard from again.

I also set my mobile client (Connect) to mark posts that I've scrolled by as read, and to only show unread posts.

I filter by All / Top 6 hours

My experience on Lemmy is getting better and better, and I feel no need to doom scroll here.

Almost all anime and a lot of the ai communities

The German ones who have the language set to English but only post in German. And the reason should be pretty obvious: They're assholes who are intentionally clogging up the feed of another language.

Anything involving AI image generation

I have the lemmy.ml instance blocked, some non-English speaking and anime communities blocked.

When I got started on Lemmy, browsing All, I was stunned by all the Furry/Brony crap. Blocking that made All more feasible... but man, it was a lot!

So far none.
Only individual users.

The tankie triad and anything anime related. I swear anime bros make a new comm for each of their favorite characters in a specific outfit

I don't block entire instances, but I block every single community I'm not interested in - which probably adds up to over 500 by now. I tried blocking all the mean or extremist users, but that ended up completely killing my feed, since that seems to be about 80% of active commenters. So nowadays, I use content filters to screen for keywords in comments and posts. My list of keywords is quite substantial and keeps growing every week. At this point, I'd say about 50% of the threads on my homepage get filtered out. While I can’t know exactly how many comments are being hidden, I’d imagine it’s about the same.

Funnily enough, even after all that filtering, a significant portion of what still gets through is full of mean, snide remarks, tribalism, toxicity, negativity, doomerism, hopelessness, and that classic crabs-in-a-bucket mentality. A smart person would probably just give up and bail - but I guess I’m not that smart.

When I scroll all, I block anything that doesn’t relate to my tastes. It would be best if there was a way to block certain topics.

Too many to list but in general:

Non-English
Politics
Anime
AI gen
Ball sports
NSFW/Cosplay
Furry

the extremist ones and the porn ones. include triad, i dont block bahaj one, as i have no issues with it.

No instances, but I've blocked 868 communities so far. Either languages I don't understand or topics I'm not interested in... the vast majority of which being sports and anime/furry porn.

I've found I don't really subscribe to communities to see a feed of just those. I'd rather see EVERYTHING and curate the feed reductively. Kinda seemed sisyphean at first, but my 'All' is fairly personalized now, so I'd recommend that approach to anyone who browses All frequently.

Personally I block anything that ends with "moe" I'm not really into thirst traps and anime thirst traps feel like the bottom of an already unwanted barrel.

Lemmy.today and hilariouschaos.com for the same reason

I don’t have any. I instead subscribe to as many communities I find interesting and set my feed to only my subscriptions. I rarely venture out to All and only do when I want to discover more communities.

I block the German ones cause I don’t understand the posts, and all the stupid green text 4chan stuff.

Mostly porn communities that I dont vibe with or are what I would consider to be disgusting, like incest, sounding, and farting. Ive also banned a lot of furry communities, not because I dislike it but because its also a lot of porn. Anything AI is banned with prejudice. I have a lot of foreign ones banned but I realized I could just mute them instead, oh well.

I think I've blocked over 500 communities. Not because they're all bad, mostly because it's stuff I'm not interested in.

Do not feel bad about blocking communities you're disinterested in. It cuts out the noise for you.

This is why i think subject tagging for communities makes a lot of sense. I want to remove anime, k-pop, video games, sports, region-specific, tv/movie, “anarchy”/“everything sucks” and plenty of other entire categories from my “All” feed, but blocking is a never-ending effort.

Hexbear is blocked for me.

All communities with AI generated content.

Mostly just subjects I don't have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.

Just checked and it's a whole bunch of nsfw ones (I don't block all nsfw, but there are a lot of weird communities in that category that I don't need to see), a bunch of German ones because they were taking over the feed at one point, and theonion (which I don't really find funny anymore)

All the Sports and racing stuff. They're really spammy and i just don't care about sports.

Pretty much all non English/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian instances. No point having them in my feed if I can't read them.