Ask Lemmy

I don't use a filter. I subscribe to communities that interest me. Keep NSFW posts turned off. browse by hot, scaled and multi cummonies related to tech and all that I like.

I browse All pretty much exclusively. You can make it a decent feed, but it takes some doing...

I am on .world and filter nothing because there is nothing sketchy really...

There's so little content, I can't imagine filtering it. I just browse All, sorted by Hot.

Block any community that is either sports, local area, news, crypto, AI, music, and us politics.

Ive blocked worldnews and that seems to have done the trick.

I dont know enough about how lemmy works, but see a bunch of discussion about "let's defederate with other instances" so its possible that whoevers running this show is doing the censoring for me. If it works something like I think it does, I dont like the concept but am pretty happy with the results so

I'm raw dogging it, dump the whole feed into my gaping maw

I Block any AI community that schlorps its sweaty corpse up on the shores of All.

I filter foreign language subs/instances, not because of any disdain towards them, but just because when they wake up for the day, my feed is flooded with .de posts that I unfortunately do not understand.

I've blocked tons of communities that are dedicated solely to posting voluptuous anime women, and one or two instances that are clearly dedicated to trolling and rage bait. Not much other than that I don't think. I frequently browse all, but if I'm not in the mood for politics and cynicism I just stick to my subscribed feed, which is nice to be able to do.

Those anime women communities are like a hydra, though. Block one and two more take its place

Nothing really. I just block idiots.

Blocking the tankie instances does most of the work for me.

Nothing, I just never browse All. Being subscribed to the right communities is enough.

Personally i just block whatever crosses my feed that i do not ever want to interact with.

LOTS of weird porn, trans or women communities i have nothing to contribute to, the occasional user i personally don't vibe with. Certain political communities, most america centric news communities, there is tons of things to potentially not be interested in / annoyed with.

I browse /all and block communities I'm not interested in.

I only block users who are spamming, trolling, or harassing. I don't really like blocking people. Everyone has a bad day sometimes and it shouldn't count against you in the long run. Of course, if you just come here to exploit people, I don't think you have anything to offer so I will block someone like that. I'm not here to spend money, so anyone who exists to extract money won't have anything to offer me.

I only view by subscribed > new

The only posts I have to downvote are video links without text synopses.

None. I subscribe to about 50 groups or so, and it's fine. None are NSFW or anything, some are news, most are hobbies or general interest.

I also never block anyone, I find that really weird. Been online for decades, never had a need for it.

I don't bother with all, I don't see the point.

IDK, I just block NSFW posts in settings, haven't seen anything really objectionable so I think it's working. From there I block all the politics and news communities., that helps my blood pressure. After that it's just a matter of filtering the stuff that simply doesn't interest me. I honestly wish you could just whitelist comms or users to show up on your feed rather than having to block everything.

Blahaj modding and a few manual user blocks, plus blocking communities I’m uninterested in. I haven’t blocked any terms, because I don’t like the idea of missing posts that happen to match one keyword and potentially missing a post I’m interested in.

I’m pretty good at mentally filtering out posts and comments I’m not interested in that come up on my curated home feed. Even in topics I dislike, there can be informative or entertaining discussions so I don’t block unless it’s obvious spam or a bad attempt at trolling.

I also don’t like the low effort comments such as “fuck (unpopular thing on Lemmy)” but then I realized that it doesn’t matter enough to engage with or be annoyed over.

Nothing. I just take what it gives.

I just block bots and ml

Nothing. lemmy.world seems to be good at filtering spam instances out without hiding too much human content.

I subscribe to communities I'm interested, from time to time I browse all to find new stuff, and block some of them.

Also some alt accounts to emulate the multis from reddit.

And on Voyager I use color coded tags for users. I try not to block users, that's just a mute button.

I block subjects containing the names Trump or Musk. They’ve slowed down, but even with the filters I still get plenty about them. For a while it seemed like they were half my feed.

I have All because I like the diversity. But that means community, keyword, and user blocks are needed.

Obviously ML is blocked, quite a few NSFW communities, gender-centric communities, religion-centric communities, political ideology communities, fan art/anime communities... Basically if it's not of interest, or of social contraversy, and loud, it gets blocked because of the types of people it attracts. This makes for a relatively toxic-free experience, few soapboxes, but still a big diversity of posts and topics come in.

Keywords go in and out when I'm fatigued by US politics or the same headlines about the same people over and over.

For users, I find it weird that many Lemmy users are obsessed with their enemies or the things they disagree with, so user blocks get dished out when I see people behaving that way too. Doesn't matter what the topic is they're "discussing".

The basic blocking system.

Feels bad to use, though, blocking whole communities. I wish there was a simple "mute" button. But if there is I haven't found it.