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.
I mostly use All as well. I have the following blocked:
all the meme communities that pop up. It’s just spammy posts
all beehaw communities. Mostly because they were defederated with the largest lemmy communities, and I didn’t want to talk to only a small subset of users. Not sure if they’ve changed anything since
Yeah many apps have features natively that I need to come up with workarounds for. I personally just don’t want to use an app for something I can also do in browser. The less apps I have on my phone the better.
Nope, porn sport and anime bore me to tears… all blocked, plus a bunch of hyper-regional communities (sorry, Seattle, I’m in Europe, so the internal affairs of your city have little interest to me). I also had to block c/India because it kept getting pushed into my /all list.
Yeah, same about c/india. It kind of annoys me, because I would have been interested in some of their culture, food etc., but it was just a ton of posts and mostly about politics…
I was partially joking, but anime, cartoons, sports, and some tasteful/ethical NSFW are all topics I'm hella interested in but don't get much play here. There's basically no boxing/MMA/basketball/football here.
Each day i feel too normie for this place
I'm not into the skinny models that most porn features and a lot of irl porn comes with a host of ethical issues,
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.
Interesting. Here on lemmy.ml, none of the porn shows up, because I guess, it’s blocked at the instance level. Unfortunately, I do still get horny anime posts every so often…
Lemmynsfw must not be federated with lemmy.ml and that’s where it’s concentrated so that makes sense. Horny anime posts are an instant block for me and I think I’ve taken care of most of them. I usually just see the -moe communities pop up now.
I browse all, but I’ve only blocked a couple of dozen. Every one is just a language I don’t understand or American football (I’m just not a fan). But I have a “disable NSFW” button on my client so I use that if I’m in public.
I don’t mind seeing things in my feed that aren’t my thing as long as they don’t take over.
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 don’t block any but, as an Admin, I tend to check on all communities (theoretically) in case there’s shenanigans. As I am on a smaller instance Local is manageable and then I use Subscribed. All is too much of a firehose of content to use much. So I am more opt-in than opt-out.
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)
29 communities, mostly news. I’m here for memes, not links to articles.
Also a few atheism communities, because I’m not a fan of seeing posts bashing my religion from a community where the rules forbid me from saying anything in its defense.
To be clear, I’m not trying to say it’s unfair for atheism communities to have those rules. Your community, your rules. But if I’m seeing those posts, I’m going to be bothered, and if I respond, I’m going to break the rules and bother everyone else. Better to not see it in the first place.
In the same way, I’d expect atheists to block a Christian community if it were trending - though I’d be willing to meet them in constructive debate in such a community if the rules permitted it.
Blocking is a community is how I control my personal feed, it’s not a condemnation.
I’m “atheist” but I can’t stand the atheism subs. There’s just not much to talk about. You could replace them with one post titled “religion sure is stupid, right??” and nothing would be lost.
Makes sense. You don’t exactly have atheist scriptures to study and discuss, and you’re not going to have any atheological discussions on how nature reflects the lack of a god.
Well, there can be some things to talk about, like if you live in a country that’s mostly religious, then how did you find a romantic partner, or how did you “come out” to your parents etc…
But the “Religion, am I right?”-posts are easy to make and will naturally get a lot more upvotes than a discussion post, so the latter get buried, unfortunately.
Yep. I don’t like calling myself an atheist because I can’t stand emphatic atheists. I’m not gonna define my identity by what I don’t believe and I could not care less about what other people believe as long as what they practice isn’t harmful. If religion brings you joy and you aren’t oppressing someone in it’s practice, why should I have an opinion on it? You do you!
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