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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 24 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

All the anime, furries, sports, non-English, news, and politics.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

Anything Linux. We get it. You like Linux. If I wanted to be converted by religious nuts I'd still be talking to a whole side of my family.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 39 minutes ago

I'd like to talk to you about climate change. Do you happen to have a minute?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

So much furry content, holy smokes.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

The short answer is anything I don't like or want to see. The shorter answer is .ml.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Blocked furry and most trans stuff. A ton of the porn that littered my feed. That’s probably 75% of my blocklist. Many non-english communities, though I’ve kept a few to run through translators just to see what’s going on in other countries. Communities with high post counts of memes that spam my feed. Any /c with no interest in good faith discussion.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] vala@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Rick and Morty com. No explanation needed.

[–] Nomad 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Blocked most furry and trans communities. I'm not against it, not into it and its overrepresented here for obvious reasons.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

whoo boy time to block infosec.pub...

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Anything with anime "Mo", porn, or "furry" in it. I'm not hating on them, it's just not for me.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 1 points 24 minutes ago

I did the same! Much more enjoyable experience

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago
  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.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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).

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

Almost all anime and a lot of the ai communities

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours 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.

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..

[–] Drekaridill@feddit.is 7 points 12 hours ago

Anything involving AI image generation

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours 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!

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 7 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 18 points 16 hours 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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 13 hours ago

So far none.
Only individual users.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Too many to list but in general:

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

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[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 56 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

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 26 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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 points 12 hours 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.

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