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.
Here? Not many, I sub to things I find interesting and browse my subscribed feed.
Reddit? Hundreds of subreddits if not more. If it’s full of rage or engagement bait, intolerance or it’s a community devoted to punching down I’ve probably blocked it.
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.
At least 20, most of them are political or I can’t understand what they’re saying so I don’t want to post because of an incorrect translation to prevent unnecessary offense.
The worst part about meme subs is that they have a decade of subreddits to repost from. I know…insert xkcd comic about being the lucky 10,000…but personally I’ve seen all those reposts of overused templates 100 times over the years and don’t want to see them again
I’ve blocked 10 or so instances and over 500 individual communities. Mostly by browsing /new and just killing anything I don’t have the slightest interest in.
The instances I’ve blocked are leftist, furry, porn and anime related, plus one that’s hosting sports communities exclusively.
I’m with you there. It took me a bit to block some trans communities because I felt like it made me a bigot despite being an ally. I just have nothing to add to the conversation so it’s the same as sports communities - just something I scrolled past anyway
It would be cool to be able to set communities to ‘read only’ so I could read the comments, but replies would be disabled or would pop up with a ‘you have set this community to read only’ warning first to discourage myself from engaging. This would work for a lot of LGBTQ+ communities where I don’t have anything substantial to add the vast majority of the time, but am still interested in learning. The read only part would help to keep me from goofing up when tired/stoned/drunk.
Not worth development time though, since the same outcome can come from self control.
Idk. There have been some sites recommending the alternative to a subreddit. I scrolled through that. And put keywords for my interests into the search bar. Occasionally I spend some minutes scrolling through the ‘All’ feed and subscribing. Or when somebody links a crosspost. Over time I’ve also unsubscribed from lemmy.ml communities because I don’t agree with their moderation practices. Found alternatives to that. And I’ve unsubscribed from most of the news communities, because reading about world politics is weighing me down and this place (Lemmy) is a lot about discussing the news.
I’m subscribed to roughly 100 communities now. Some of them are duplicates or a wasteland, that’s just how it is. But I like that this way, my feed is somehow tailored to my interests. And there is no doom-scrolling any more, which I like too.
Communities related to Anime, soft porn stuff like “pictures of fit women”, local communities about some town that’s 5,000 km away from me and football.
The ‘them’ in your first comment was pretty obviously about the lemmy admins on those servers profiting from doom scrolling. Now you are talking about “news” sites selling your data.
This sounds like something you made up to not be wrong. It is ok to be wrong. Just incorporate the new info and move on.
Or you guys just misunderstood each other. It is ok to misunderstand each other once in a while. No one needs to be declare right or wrong for this interaction.
You know how adblock has blocklists… what if we had shareable lemmy blocklists like that? Anyone could create a blocklist and you could import into your client. Would be pretty sweet.
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