So I've been attempting to block communities I don't want to see on my main feed, but it's pretty much impossible to do these days because the communities get mirrored on so many different instances that when you block one single community 5 times, there are still 3 more versions on different instances with the exact same crap. Block them? There's still more!
This site is rapidly becoming completely useless, the way I've been using it before.
...which isn't even really possible anymore, which is the whole point of this post.
You mentioned 8 versions of a community in the OP. If you block all of them, you should be good until a new one appears.
That's going to be time consuming, but there isn't any better option at the moment
It's not just time consuming. It takes up all of the time I spend here and still doesn't actually progress to anything better.
I'm not saying it's hard, I'm saying it's become impossible recently. My block list is absolutely enormous these days, and there's no end in sight.
Piefed allows you to block keywords, maybe that can help?
You can import your settings from Lemmy
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list