Why?

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
    53·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
      15·
      10 months ago

      Oh yeah, forgot about this. Each time I rotate accounts I’ve got to go on an anime blocking spree. Nothing against anime but the fans are creeps.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
        101·
        10 months ago

        Thankfully you can block a handful of users and then you won’t get included in their new perversions.

        • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
          2·
          10 months ago

          I also switched to blocking users who post Moe content. I’d be happy to chill with them in the comments, but it was just too much content for my feed.

          Before I changed tactics, I was keenly aware of each time one of our top contributors discovered a new anime.

          It was funny for awhile, but got to be too much effort to keep currating my feed.

          I appreciate everyone who adds content here. Some just isn’t for me.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        2·
        10 months ago

        Since it might help your feed, I’ll share something that worked for me.

        I realized that we have a relatively small number of very active Moe champions who post to a variety of topical Lemmy’s. I switched to blocking those users, and it cleared Moe content from my feed.

  • scytale@lemmy.zip
    51·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      291·
      10 months ago

      I use the opposite strategy, which is what I did on Reddit: browse All, and block everything that isn’t interesting. Sports teams, shows I didn’t care about, other niche communities. I prefer this approach because I like finding content I never would have thought to subscribe to.

      • Akasazh@feddit.nl
        4·
        10 months ago

        I alternate. I have my own curated list of subscriptions, which is mostly serious reading, so I’ll spend some time perusing that.

        And then I move to All and enjoy the randomness, sometimes adding communities to my subscriptions, sometimes banning subs or content creators if they annoy me.

    • DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      That’s what I do, too. However, I did block some communities, mostly meme- or politics related, so I can briefly browse the “all” category once in a while.

  • AE5NE@lemmy.radio
    231·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
    211·
    10 months ago

    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

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    Too many to list but in general:

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

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      i had to block the main politics one, because they start shilling for israel low-key.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    14·
    10 months ago

    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!

  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      91·
      10 months ago

      Same. I block every instance and topic thats not in english. I cant read it and am not about to learn danish or german or whatever it is, so its an utter waste of my and lemmys time and bandwidth to show it to me. It should really be a standard feature.

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      10 months ago

      They mostly don’t have the language set at all, like 99% of all posts and the reason is nobody cares.

    • simulacra_procession@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I actually really enjoy translating the whole comments pages sometimes if I get the meme through context clues, can’t tell if things get lost in translation or German humor is just really odd though…

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    10 months ago

    Oh my god, soooooo many. An unreal amount of dreck here. The worst part is that I’ve blocked all that stuff and now it’s mostly terrible world news. And so, to answer your question, no it hasn’t made the experience here better. I guess my interests don’t jive with the main niches around here.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    All the non-English ones. If I can’t read it then there’s no point to having it clutteting things up.

    Also all the porn. That’s not what I’m here for.