Lemmy for me is all Linux, politics, boobs, anime and sports. I'm a straight woman who hates sports and anime, has a surface interest in Linux but doesn't wish to debate about it, and likes to be knowledgeable about both world and US politics but hates the anger. I'm really debating if Lemmy is for me, but I won't go back to reddit and I need someplace to browse when the insomnia strikes.

More like hide all the furry boards

Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? "The governor of Arkansas-" I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me

or us politics

Give us an option to block memes as well then, my biggest issue with Lemmy is the tsunami of terrible and practically unavoidable memes. I don't ever see sports content, rarely see NSFW content, there is a fair amount of Elon spam, but really the worst are the memes. Even doing my best to hide the meme communities they are unavoidable.

Is Lemmy just not showing me sports content? I don't like sports at all and this would bother me if it was constant, but I only see the occasional sports post.

"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"

With Sync you can just pre-emptively filter based on keywords.

Where is the "hide all americans" button?

It would be nice if every community had to pick a tag associated with it so that you can automatically filter out communities you have no interest in. E.g. Politics, news, memes, sports, tech, celebrities, TV/Movies, etc...

"Hide all American news" would basically fix 50% of the issues.

I really wish there could be tags and sub-tags.

Tag examples:

• Politics
• Sport
• Anime
• News
• AI

Sub-tag examples:

• US
• Europe
• Africa
• Basketball
• Volleyball
• F1

Some sort of curated list by Lemmy developers that might change over time depending on user demand.

Then client apps can fetch such list from any server and allow you to apply such filter.

Imagine being able to block whole category of sports? Anime? News? Whatever people want/don't want.

I'd love a fediverse-wide tagging system for various kinds of NSFW (porn, gore, death...), Sports (ideally also by discipline), Anime, Music (again, with genres), Gaming etc. to hand-pick what I absolutely don't want to see.

I don't think I've seen a single post about sports in Lemmy. Ever. Same with mastodon.

PS: just saw the first sports post about the gunners :/ we're going to need more tools to filter post topics and instances, otherwise it will be impossible to discover anything you're not already subscribed to.

Here I am trying to find sports content.

Honestly, I say we ditch NSFW as a on/off switch and go with a mandatory tagging system. We can clarify NSFW into content warning tags, e.g. CW - Gore, CW - Death, CW - Breast, CW - Genitalia.

Users could then set their own preferences on which tags would cause a post to be masked or simply hidden.

But why stop there? Tags could be very useful in our federated environment to help communities mesh better with each other.

Communities could be able to specify a list of mandatory tags, i.e. the Swallow community could require posts specify African Swallow or European Swallow (or both or neither). Communities could also make some tags implied, so the AfricanSwallow community might just imply that posts are Africian Swallow unless user changes it.

Underneath the hood, all tags are just treated as part of the post text, so the backend performance impact will be minimal. However moderation tools would be able to consider tags when deciding how to handle a post.

Of course, the server/instance owner can then simply make a policy of what kinds of content warnings they require, and communities can then build other tags on that to meet their community needs.

Since you've apparently seen so many, I would love for you to link me to a sports community that is actually active. Everything out there is completely dead, usually with one person reposting content from reddit or Twitter.

That baseball guy and all his bots needs to be blocked by default...

I can’t count how many NFL and NHLs I blocked. Right with you on this.

Yeh I'd love a "hide all elon/twitter/x" toggle.

I’d love a way to block “all anime / hentai / manga” related topics and posts.

That stuff is everywhere, and invades everything. Like a cancer. Even communities which aren’t anime related. I’ll be subscribed to some community because I’m into the topic the community is based on - which has nothing to do with anime- and then some damn anime fan comes along and posts some weird/creepy “anime/hentai version of [topic]” and then it just spirals from there, and another community turns into another fucking anime community.

Believe it or not, not everyone on the internet is obsessed with Japanese style animation, and the associated (weird/creepy) sexualization of such drawn/animated characters.

As a person from a country that has near zero knowledge, awareness, and enthusiasm for American Football, I agree.

I'd love to be able to block an entire instance. @lemmynsfw has a tonne of creepy-ass communities dedicated to posting pictures of female celebrities. There's never any sort of real content, just celebrities, sometimes in revealing clothes, and creepy titles like "beautiful" or "wow" or something like that.

Was just scrolling through the All feed and saw one for Sadie Sink. The entire thing gives me the willies, it's so gross.

Best opinion of the year. Also I would like that globally in all media as well

Or a "hide all political posts" button. As an American, I already hate the next few months as the next generation of liars run for President.

Omg, no way this would get past Showerthoughts nazi Mods on reddit.

Freeeddoom

I've blocked so many football (both US/international) communities it's not funny. Same with anime. Nothing comes close to the amount of meme communities I've blocked tho. No beans for me..

What sports content? There isn't any. I'd rather be able to hide tech

More boobs, fewer balls.

I'd like a simple and easy way to share blocklists. I spent my first few weeks on Lemmy blocking everything I didn't want to see, and now I rarely see things from outside my bubble...

On second thought maybe that's not such a good thing

Hide all sports related content, no question!