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Blocking communities doesn't work at all
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2025
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Keep at it, if curating All is what you want. That's how I use this site too, and so far I've blocked over 900 communities - it has made All SO MUCH better.
You'll burn through the redundant communities.
Just don't try to do it all in one go - hit a few on each scroll and it'll add up without being a very noticeable effort.
I wish there were giant lists of related communities and an easy way to import them as blocks. Want to block all sports team communities? Here are all 1,000 of them. All the anime communities? Here are all 90,000,000 of them.
Community tags would enable that. Vice versa, it'd make those kinds of groupings easy to find and subscribe to for those interested.
I wish my Internet was fast enough to block that many communities. These days I usually get frustrated after waiting for 3-4 of the same communities I've already blocked 20 time to load, just so I can block them again, and give up on using lemmy.
Internet speed shouldn't make that big a difference in a site like Lemmy. If you're on mobile, consider trying an app (or a different app if you're already using one). If PC, maybe a different browser? I use Firefox, at about 50 mbps according to https://www.speedtest.net/ - lemmy loads up nearly instantly.
Another option is to use filters instead of blocks. I don't know of a way to do it on PC, but many mobile apps support filters. You'll have to find the right balance of being broad enough to zap all the redundant communities, but specific enough to not zap the unrelated ones that you might be interested in seeing. IMO that's more effort than just blocking, but if internet speed is a barrier, that would make for a good plan B.
Yeah, well, not everyone lives in an ideal situation. Fuck me, right?
If you're not able to try different apps, browsers, or filters, you do appear to be fucked.
I run it on PC through a mobile hotspot. For whatever reason lemmy seems to be the only site that regularly chugs like that for me. And yes, the fact I appear to be fucked is the point of this post, to inform anyone who cares of a rare use case which makes the site very difficult to use recently. If they don't prioritize fixing it, or if it's somehow prohibitively difficult that's just fine, I'm not entitled to a working site, especially with my unique situation, but I wanted to report the emerging problem. If it keeps going like this how long will it be before people with perfectly fine connections simply don't have the time to block enough communities to actually get rid of them (some guy said he had to block ~900 communities to get to where he wanted).
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