Ask Lemmy

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.

• games I don't play but which tend to clutter All by being highly posted/active (Hololive, Honkaistarrail, etc.)

• "stop drinking" related comms because they were too frequent in the feed, I already stopped drinking because I'm too old and cranky to deal with hangovers, and a lot of them were giving me creepy cult vibes tbh

• "witchesvspatriarchy" and related because I find that kind of humor snobby and grating

• a few other women/feminism related comms. I'm a lesbian who struggles with internalized misogyny, I'll fully admit that. But some of these posts are unhinged misandry and a lot of them are just depressing to read and probably not good for my mental health

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.

Sports and Linux.

I have no interest in sports.

I also have no interest in Linux, I have installed and used Linux around ten years ago. If and when I need Linux I'll just go to the mainstream internet or just unblock them and join. But for now no.

Have LꝏꝏꝏTs communities blocked , but noteworthy types :

• Most (meme|shitpost|news) communities . Oversaturation from seemingly homogenous threadiverse userbase
  • (Meme|shitpost) content dœsn't lend itself well to conversations (which's what am here for) IMO . If I wanted those I'd just browse tumblr oar some thing
  • Prefer getting my news elsewhere
• "(Cringe|Trashy)"-adjacent communities . Thankfully not many exist
• All (.*)(girl|babe)s NSFW communities , don't like seeing photorealistic imgs of conventionally attractive women

As far's instances , only one can remember 🏧's hilariouschaos bcus TERF community on there I think

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

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

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

1. A spider community because I ain't about that life as an arachnophobic person.
2. A bunch of minecraft communities because I completely ditched the game after they decided that Java players aren't allowed to use adult words anymore on their private single player worlds and also because of the whole chat thing where all messages you send are linked to your specific account.
3. Entomology because I don't fuck with bugs.
4. A few different AI communities because I try to avoid AI if possible.
5. A community about dicks and dick pics. Not my cup of tea and I don't feel like seeing them on any feed since I don't blur NSFW images.

Those are just a few. The rest are minor things or other communities that are the same thing essentially, but on different instances.

Anything Linux. We get it. You like Linux. If I wanted to be converted by religious nuts I'd still be talking to a whole side of my family.

The short answer is anything I don't like or want to see. The shorter answer is .ml.

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

All the anime, furries, sports, non-English, news, and politics.

All of the trans communities.

I don't like their patronizing, berating attitude coupled with censoring anyone who might raise a valid point against them.

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.

Religion

Hexbear, AuthLeft

Advertising communities

Political parties

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

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

Rick and Morty com. No explanation needed.

Lemmy.today and hilariouschaos.com for the same reason

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