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The German ones who have the language set to English but only post in German. And the reason should be pretty obvious: They're assholes who are intentionally clogging up the feed of another language.

Anything involving AI image generation

I have the lemmy.ml instance blocked, some non-English speaking and anime communities blocked.

None, although there's an ADHD sub that pops up often that is annoying and ive comsidered blocking it

So far none.
Only individual users.

I don't block entire instances, but I block every single community I'm not interested in - which probably adds up to over 500 by now. I tried blocking all the mean or extremist users, but that ended up completely killing my feed, since that seems to be about 80% of active commenters. So nowadays, I use content filters to screen for keywords in comments and posts. My list of keywords is quite substantial and keeps growing every week. At this point, I'd say about 50% of the threads on my homepage get filtered out. While I can’t know exactly how many comments are being hidden, I’d imagine it’s about the same.

Funnily enough, even after all that filtering, a significant portion of what still gets through is full of mean, snide remarks, tribalism, toxicity, negativity, doomerism, hopelessness, and that classic crabs-in-a-bucket mentality. A smart person would probably just give up and bail - but I guess I’m not that smart.

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!

the extremist ones and the porn ones. include triad, i dont block bahaj one, as i have no issues with it.

Lemmy.today and hilariouschaos.com for the same reason

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.

None yet! Are there any I should be wary of?

The tankie triad and anything anime related. I swear anime bros make a new comm for each of their favorite characters in a specific outfit

All communities with AI generated content.

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)

I block the German ones cause I don’t understand the posts, and all the stupid green text 4chan stuff.

Too many to list but in general:

Non-English
Politics
Anime
AI gen
Ball sports
NSFW/Cosplay
Furry

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.

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

Some foreign language communities don't seem to have their language marked so they still show up despite my language settings, so I blocked them to make things easier.

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.

Because you get it back in the form of services and perks.

*meme*

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.

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.

Fuck cars, vegan communities, gender specific communities, cooking communities - because these types tend to be hard-line judgemental and fueled by hate (looking at you steak)

Mental health meme communities because they just post anything and say it's a trait of their condition. Does anyone else think about stuff? ADHD amiright?

Edit: oh and tHaNkSiMcUrEd because they just make fun of self help now

Anime art communities because there are so many and it's not my thing but I support their interests

Anything not in English because I can't read anything

Edit: users

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

Religion

Hexbear, AuthLeft

Advertising communities

Political parties

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

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

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

Mostly just subjects I don't have any interest in, such as football, F1, etc.

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

This is why i think subject tagging for communities makes a lot of sense. I want to remove anime, k-pop, video games, sports, region-specific, tv/movie, “anarchy”/“everything sucks” and plenty of other entire categories from my “All” feed, but blocking is a never-ending effort.