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How many communities do you have blocked? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by glimse@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)

I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.

What about you?

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[-] avguser@lemmy.world 78 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My blocked community list got significantly shorter when they introduced instance blocking. Got pretty tired of playing furry porn community whackamole.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago

I have 7 instances blocked. I'm really glad that you can block instances while not blocking the users of those instances. Like I don't want to see any posts from yiffit but being a furry doesn't mean your comments aren't worth reading, ya know?

The other blocked instances are porn and language-specific instances just to clean up my feed

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 18 points 6 months ago

I would love it if blocking all users from an inatance was available as a separate option from the users. I think the majority of my blocked users are from two instances.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 6 months ago

Hexbear and lemmy.ml?

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

The fact that you can so easily guess which two instances proves it would be a useful tool to be able to block all their users.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, those two.

[-] korny@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Good to know! I didn't want to miss out on @kolanaki@yiffit.net comments, but now I won't have to worry about it.

[-] Donut@leminal.space 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I did. Those usernames are too distracting and shout "look at me!", so I'm filtering all of them.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I totally agree. Before I found the option to disable custom display names, I found that guy insufferable...2024 equivalent of xXxUSERNAMExXx. I don't think I've noticed him since, though I'm sure I've read his comments

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 14 points 6 months ago

Got pretty tired of playing furry porn community whackamole.

Coincidentally, the furry porn whack-off-a-mole community is not very popular.

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Be the change you want to see. (:

[-] simple@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm this close to blocking ani.social as well because it's mostly softcore porn. I like Anime, but not like this.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I added that one fast for the same reason. I am not an anime-hater but there's way too much horny anime getting posted for my liking. Too many -chan characters that look basically identical middle schoolers.

[-] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

I'm gonna need a list of these ridiculous communities. You know, to block them. /S

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