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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?

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[–] Drusas@kbin.run 2 points 1 year ago

Don't know how to check, but I am on mbin, not Lemmy.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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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.

I don't know, but it's mostly memes and gay stuff.

[–] blargerer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[–] yukichigai@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Here? Not many, I sub to things I find interesting and browse my subscribed feed.

Reddit? Hundreds of subreddits if not more. If it's full of rage or engagement bait, intolerance or it's a community devoted to punching down I've probably blocked it.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I've blocked 10 or so instances and over 500 individual communities. Mostly by browsing /new and just killing anything I don't have the slightest interest in.

The instances I've blocked are leftist, furry, porn and anime related, plus one that's hosting sports communities exclusively.

[–] sag@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

hexbear, lemmygrad and all news communities. Also turn off the NSFW post.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only these 2:

Because they:

  • Spam up your feed
  • Spread depressing content (since it attracts more attention thus earns them more)
  • Try to manipulate you
[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Earns them more what? There are no ads here unless you locked yourself into an app that pushes them.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each article,
links to a news site,
which is riddled with data trackers,
which collects info about you,
which is sold.

In addition the sites contain advertisements.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The 'them' in your first comment was pretty obviously about the lemmy admins on those servers profiting from doom scrolling. Now you are talking about "news" sites selling your data.

This sounds like something you made up to not be wrong. It is ok to be wrong. Just incorporate the new info and move on.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

How do you think news sites earn money? They do not provide that content for free,
you are their product of which they benefit.

I use NoScript,
which tells me about each JavaScript piece a website has, most if not all of them contain trackers (= data collection).

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