Personally I block anything that ends with "moe" I'm not really into thirst traps and anime thirst traps feel like the bottom of an already unwanted barrel.

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.

This is why i think subject tagging for communities makes a lot of sense. I want to remove anime, k-pop, video games, sports, region-specific, tv/movie, “anarchy”/“everything sucks” and plenty of other entire categories from my “All” feed, but blocking is a never-ending effort.

Hexbear is blocked for me.

Mostly just subjects I don't have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.

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

No instances, but I've blocked 868 communities so far. Either languages I don't understand or topics I'm not interested in... the vast majority of which being sports and anime/furry porn.

I've found I don't really subscribe to communities to see a feed of just those. I'd rather see EVERYTHING and curate the feed reductively. Kinda seemed sisyphean at first, but my 'All' is fairly personalized now, so I'd recommend that approach to anyone who browses All frequently.

Mostly porn communities that I dont vibe with or are what I would consider to be disgusting, like incest, sounding, and farting. Ive also banned a lot of furry communities, not because I dislike it but because its also a lot of porn. Anything AI is banned with prejudice. I have a lot of foreign ones banned but I realized I could just mute them instead, oh well.

None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.

Oh my god, soooooo many. An unreal amount of dreck here. The worst part is that I've blocked all that stuff and now it's mostly terrible world news. And so, to answer your question, no it hasn't made the experience here better. I guess my interests don't jive with the main niches around here.

There's a lot of freaky porn out there that I don't want to see

Too many to list but in general:

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

I think I've blocked over 500 communities. Not because they're all bad, mostly because it's stuff I'm not interested in.

Do not feel bad about blocking communities you're disinterested in. It cuts out the noise for you.

ZeroBytes.monster I don't want a reddit bot in my feed. I wanted a clean break during the reddit 3rd party app backstabbing.

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!

Pretty much all non English/Spanish/Portuguese/Italian instances. No point having them in my feed if I can't read them.

Politics and memes.

Social media is a terrible source for accurate, unbiased information. And memes are low quality content that shouldn't be consumed by anyone.

When I scroll all, I block anything that doesn’t relate to my tastes. It would be best if there was a way to block certain topics.

I don't block much but I do have a couple of filters that do good work on Piefed.

All the Sports and racing stuff. They're really spammy and i just don't care about sports.

Anything involving AI image generation

Religion

Hexbear, AuthLeft

Advertising communities

Political parties

"General", unspecified non-meme communities (nowherelsetopost etc)

Most of them I don't know why. I just came back to this account because of lemm.ee.

Just checked and it's a whole bunch of nsfw ones (I don't block all nsfw, but there are a lot of weird communities in that category that I don't need to see), a bunch of German ones because they were taking over the feed at one point, and theonion (which I don't really find funny anymore)

*meme*

Meme communities, anime, sports, furries, hexbear, moe, and tankie instances. I just block these categories to maintain All as a viable browsing option. I want to be able to subscribe to a limited array of communities while keeping up with trends and events.

So far none.
Only individual users.

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.

All communities with AI generated content.

Some foreign language communities don't seem to have their language marked so they still show up despite my language settings, so I blocked them to make things easier.

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

Almost all anime and a lot of the ai communities

the extremist ones and the porn ones. include triad, i dont block bahaj one, as i have no issues with it.