I've basically blocked all meme communities.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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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.
3, i don't remember why i blocked them
You probably blocked Risa for the same reason I did....wayyyyyy too many posts. It was half my feed before I blocked it.
Science_memes is basically just a generic meme sub and is very close to hitting my blocklist for the same reason
Entomology...I don't even have a guess. Are you grossed out by bugs, maybe?
You are very good at guessing
It's hard to say. I use a keyword block that auto-blocks any community with "meme" in its title. So it could be dozens, or even hundreds. I've never counted. I have similar keywords for things I'm not interested in like "waifu", "anime", and most stuff adjacent to those topics.
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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You can block communities?
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
It works on Jerboa
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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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Wait, you're blocking porn, sports, and anime?
Those are the fun parts...
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
Sure! Your reasons are valid and I'm not asking you to defend them.
I certainly don't like everything in any of those categories either. I've got slices I'm into, but yeah, the broad categories are def part of my interests.
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Got 20 communities blocked and coincidentally 20 users blocked 🙃
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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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.
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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I too browse like you and have blocked too much communities to keep track of .
I've blocked 40ish instances and hundreds of communities. Everything I find boring, not interesting or trying too hard.
Only those with other languages that I do not understand and that somehow still show on my feed.