Ask Lemmy

So far none.
Only individual users.

Most of them I don't know why. I just came back to this account because of lemm.ee.

Politics and memes.

Social media is a terrible source for accurate, unbiased information. And memes are low quality content that shouldn't be consumed by anyone.

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

I browse mostly by All/Everything, and it's about an 70/20/10 split of non-English communities, sports communities, and anime communities respectively.

The non-English communities are typically on non-English local instances (feddit.org, feddit.nl, jlai.lu, etc), but I don't want to block those instances entirely because their users will still participate in other communities in English and it's not their fault that I just don't speak the language.

The sports communities are just because I don't typically care for that type of content. There are only a couple of sports I actively follow, and within those sports I don't need to see communities dedicated to each and every specific team, so I just block to filter the ones I have no interest in.

As for the anime, I actually do love anime, but a lot of them are communities for specific series I'm not into (which, if I'm being frank, are almost all just utter shit-tier waifu bait material), and others are very creepy "X"-moe communities which just make me feel gross when they turn up (and for those, blocking a single user was enough to get rid of 99% of that).

Meme communities, anime, sports, furries, hexbear, moe, and tankie instances. I just block these categories to maintain All as a viable browsing option. I want to be able to subscribe to a limited array of communities while keeping up with trends and events.

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.

Religion

Hexbear, AuthLeft

Advertising communities

Political parties

"General", unspecified non-meme communities (nowherelsetopost etc)

I don't block much but I do have a couple of filters that do good work on Piefed.

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

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

Lemmy.today and hilariouschaos.com for the same reason

Nothing. I go through my feed raw and unfiltered .ml, hexbear, and everything

All communities with AI generated content.

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)

*meme*

Mostly murican politics, politics memes, trump/musk stuff (it's like playing whac-a-mole), some anime and furry stuff.

Fuck cars, vegan communities, gender specific communities, cooking communities - because these types tend to be hard-line judgemental and fueled by hate (looking at you steak)

Mental health meme communities because they just post anything and say it's a trait of their condition. Does anyone else think about stuff? ADHD amiright?

Edit: oh and tHaNkSiMcUrEd because they just make fun of self help now

Anime art communities because there are so many and it's not my thing but I support their interests

Anything not in English because I can't read anything

Edit: users

@pixelmeow@lemmy.world @Theatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.com @spankmonkey@lemmy.world @pedz@lemmy.ca @RebekahWSD@lemmy.world @SineIraEtStudio@midwest.social @10OhmResistor@aussie.zone

Some foreign language communities don't seem to have their language marked so they still show up despite my language settings, so I blocked them to make things easier.

None yet! Are there any I should be wary of?

Because you get it back in the form of services and perks.

None, although there's an ADHD sub that pops up often that is annoying and ive comsidered blocking it