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

submitted 8 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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[-] Hypx@fedia.io 5 points 8 months ago

I've basically blocked all meme communities.

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[-] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

I've blocked 15 instances for overall spam/trash comments and 210 individuals subs so far.

Furrys, anime, spam, porn, alt-right, etc.

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

i wasn't even aware that was a thing you could do, but i suppose it makes sense.

Oh and it's none just for the record.

[-] psion1369@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

You can block communities?

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Yes. Not sure what app you use but for me I click the dots in the corner of a post and pick Block Community and Block User

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

It works on Jerboa

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[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I've blocked over 1000 communities.

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[-] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Over a thousand, for sure? I hate memes. I'm just scrolling light conversations. No deep politics or debates. No depressing news, anime, etc

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[-] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

I also browse exclusively all. I only bother blocking the non-English and porn communities. Looks like that's 315, for me.

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[-] NaClKnight@kbin.run 4 points 8 months ago

Wait, you're blocking porn, sports, and anime?

Those are the fun parts...

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Porn: there's so much of it on here. If I didn't block most of it, it'd be half my feed

Sports: I simply do not give a shit about the stats of some cricket game I didn't know about

Anime: I'm frankly just sick of the art style that so much of it shares. I don't dislike anime as a rule but for a lot of shows, you could drop any character into another anime and they'd fit right in. And on top of that, I can't stand the hyper sexualization of immature female characters that is so prevalent in the genre. I don't think middle schoolers are hot so I don't like when "sexy" characters act like one

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't blacklist.

I whitelist, view Subscribed rather than All.

What I want to go hunting for new communities to subscribe to, I use lemmyverse.net, which can see all of the communities on the Threadiverse, not just the ones that someone on my instance has subscribed to.

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

Got 20 communities blocked and coincidentally 20 users blocked 🙃

[-] kindenough@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

336 apparently, I did not realize I blocked that many.

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[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I have two accounts. One has all the more serious news type stuff blocked and the other is unfiltered. Its nice to be able to take a break from reading about war and disease. I get most of that news from Mastadon anyway.

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[-] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

700 at last count

I block all communities based around a single sports team and most sports, also any based around a geographic location smaller than national-level. Anything based around a state, city, town etc is always negative.

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[-] Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I too browse like you and have blocked too much communities to keep track of .

[-] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

302

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

About 330. A crap ton of porn stuff, furry, bondage, etc. Several non-English communities. Operating system related stuff like Linux or android. A few “normal” communities that are on instances that don’t allow much dissent or contrary opinion.

[-] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

I try to block communities discussing politics, cringe memes and Linux. I have about 50 blocked at the moment.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

Almost 200 pretty much exclusively from lemmynsfw before you could block a whole instance.

Once they added that, I've blocked very very few communities.

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