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I dont like memes, they waste brain space and time. How can I prevent the home feed from being flooded by them? I block one, and 5 more show up.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Subscribe to the communities you enjoy, and change default view to subscriptions instead of all. At least that’s what I do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This, the all feed is a stream of garbage,porn and spam at times.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

where is all that porn people keep warning me about?

my all feed has some garbage but its squeaky clean garbage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Go to your settings, you probably have NSFW filtering on.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

↑↑↓↓←→←→BA

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You forgot to press Start.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Obviously, you press Select before Start. It's dangerous to go alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I fixed it for you (click it, seriously):
nooooooo button

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

You go to them hit the 3 dots and hit "block community"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

break the rules and get yourself banned from the communities. then you'll never see them again.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, Lemmy did you wrong with the embed. Here you go.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Default to subscribed communities views.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I block one, and 5 more show up.

There aren't as many as you'd think, if you block [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] you've already blocked 90% of meme posts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Also, block that thepicardmaneuver guy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

tbh im in the same boat. i just keep on blockin them and make use of subscriptions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

What I do is two things

  • Go to the All view and block each community that has memes.
  • subscribe to commutes that you like.

This ways, all your views are meme-free.

Bonus tip for finding new commuties: create a new account and go to your All view. Every post you see, check if you like the community. If you like it, subscribe to it on your normal account and then block it on your new account. The new account works kind of like check off system. Each community that you made a decision on (subscribe or don't care) will no longer be visible on the new account. This way, other communities that are smaller will also be revealed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

not memes for me but anime. there's no way to block whole instances i don't wanna see. if i don't wanna see ani.social on my feed at all i have to block every community on the instance, which is just not possible.

memes though is gonna be hard for you because a lot of people use meme formats to communicate in any topic. the science side of lemmy memes about science stuff. the programmers meme about computer stuff. but that's not all they do, there's more than just memes, there's actual discussion too. to completely get rid of memes and never see them on a lemmy feed again is gonna be an impossible task.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

there’s no way to block whole instances

Yes there is. If your instance is running a 0.19.x version, then you'll have instance blocks as an option in your profile settings page

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

omg you the real mvp

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

You can block whole instances. I've successfully used the block instance feature on all the NSFW dedicated instances and the anime art ones.