Why?
Personally I block anything that ends with “moe” I’m not really into thirst traps and anime thirst traps feel like the bottom of an already unwanted barrel.
Thiccmoe aren’t even thicc.
Whack-a-Moe. Seems endless. I point to that as a main reason lemmy will never gain popularity.
Since it might help your feed, I’ll share something that worked for me.
I realized that we have a relatively small number of very active Moe champions who post to a variety of topical Lemmy’s. I switched to blocking those users, and it cleared Moe content from my feed.
I came to the same realization eventually! Pro tip!
Oh yeah, forgot about this. Each time I rotate accounts I’ve got to go on an anime blocking spree. Nothing against anime but the fans are creeps.
Thankfully you can block a handful of users and then you won’t get included in their new perversions.
I also switched to blocking users who post Moe content. I’d be happy to chill with them in the comments, but it was just too much content for my feed.
Before I changed tactics, I was keenly aware of each time one of our top contributors discovered a new anime.
It was funny for awhile, but got to be too much effort to keep currating my feed.
I appreciate everyone who adds content here. Some just isn’t for me.
Nothing, but i have a word blocklist on trump, elon and ice. So that way I am up to date because some stuff still comes through, but not knee deep in the fascism takeover of the US (at least on Lemmy 🥲)
Anything with anime “Mo”, porn, or “furry” in it. I’m not hating on them, it’s just not for me.
what is mo?
I assume moe? Which I think means cute?
The whole lemmynsfw instance. Don’t need that distraction here.
Text filters - any keywords for news topics that I’ve had enough of (mostly reoccurring political topics)
Weird meme shit from some strange community (or something that is just not my generation) - block the whole community.
A poster who’s engaging in bad faith - blocked, never to be heard from again.
I also set my mobile client (Connect) to mark posts that I’ve scrolled by as read, and to only show unread posts.
I filter by All / Top 6 hours
My experience on Lemmy is getting better and better, and I feel no need to doom scroll here.
The short answer is anything I don’t like or want to see. The shorter answer is .ml.
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.
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None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.
When I got started on Lemmy, browsing All, I was stunned by all the Furry/Brony crap. Blocking that made All more feasible… but man, it was a lot!
No instances, but I’ve blocked 868 communities so far. Either languages I don’t understand or topics I’m not interested in… the vast majority of which being sports and anime/furry porn.
I’ve found I don’t really subscribe to communities to see a feed of just those. I’d rather see EVERYTHING and curate the feed reductively. Kinda seemed sisyphean at first, but my ‘All’ is fairly personalized now, so I’d recommend that approach to anyone who browses All frequently.
Just checked and it’s a whole bunch of nsfw ones (I don’t block all nsfw, but there are a lot of weird communities in that category that I don’t need to see), a bunch of German ones because they were taking over the feed at one point, and theonion (which I don’t really find funny anymore)
None. I can handle other ideas and opinions just fine.
wow that’s ridiculously naive
God forbid another human being has its own preference and acts on them without harming anyone
Some opinions are too dangerous to be given a platform
who decides which ones?
Whoever has the authority in the domain, and if we don’t like their choices we go elsewhere
Is moderating a new concept to you?
Clowns begging for censorship lol
Explain this.
I have to make some assumptions about you here, forgive me for the parts I miss on.
From your post history I feel you are asking this out of a sincere belief that rational debate over every topic leads to greater understanding and more positive outcomes. This is a noble belief but it is not born out by real world experience.
I was there when 4chan got overrun by stormfront, I was there when Digg was overrun by powermods, I was there when reddit was overrun by MAGA and in EVERY one of those circumstances the initial crack that gave space to the bad actors that would come to subvert those platforms was the same mistaken belief you have; that open debate about every topic is acceptable and productive.
There are some ideas that need to be deplatformed if the platform they are hosted on is to continue being a positive community. Humanity isn’t nearly as rational as you assume, and even if you personally feel yourself resilient to such platform manipulation, the vast majority of others are not.
Fair explanation. I appreciate your taking the time.
then, you know, upvote maybe?
Oops. Sorry about that. Done.
I think I’ve blocked over 500 communities. Not because they’re all bad, mostly because it’s stuff I’m not interested in.
Do not feel bad about blocking communities you’re disinterested in. It cuts out the noise for you.
None yet! Are there any I should be wary of?
Got the tankie triad in there. I switched from lemm.ee too and forgot to reblock those, mentioned that term in a comment thread on .ml and the content got removed for “bigotry”. Reassures having them in there is a good idea.
Lemmygrad.ml seems kinda obvious, but I have a completely naive question about lemmy.ml. Is it essentially the same? Why is it a controversial instance.
Based on just the sidebar description it sounds like a cool instance: A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers
But I also see a lot of people saying they have it blocked
It’s not as extreme as Lemmygrad, but there’s a good deal of overlap.
A lot of people, despite using Lemmy, also disagree ideologically with the developers of Lemmy, and feel as though it’s a conflict of interest to both develop the platform and have a preferred instance on it.
I don’t block .ml and I think the majority of users there are fine, but there are a few specific people (a couple who I know also have alts on Lemmygrad) who just show up everywhere and tend to give the entire instance its reputation.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, still figuring things our.
How else would you use the platform without joining an instance? Just have a private server?
You can host your own instance, or use another Fediverse platform which integrates with Lemmy like Mbin or Piefed.
Edit: Also worth noting that your Lemmy instance (lemm.ee) announced they’re going offline at the end of the month, so if you’re looking for alternatives, there’s plenty of options on Lemmy as well as other platforms.
Yeah I posted here a few days ago about trying to find a good alternative. I’m very sad to see lemme.ee go
I don’t remember why I blocked .ml because it was a long time ago but I’d guess I got tired of the users and many of the communities bleeding tankies into the rest of Lemmy.
I’ve heard that blahaj has changed a lot too but I haven’t really noticed it not being in my feed so I haven’t bothered to check.
