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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
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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.
For Lemmy, kbin and piefed you can specifically choose which language posts you want to display if anyone doesn't want to go with instance blocking.
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.
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.
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.
Oh my god, soooooo many. An unreal amount of dreck here. The worst part is that I've blocked all that stuff and now it's mostly terrible world news. And so, to answer your question, no it hasn't made the experience here better. I guess my interests don't jive with the main niches around here.
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.
Whack-a-Moe. Seems endless. I point to that as a main reason lemmy will never gain popularity.
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.
Thiccmoe aren't even thicc.
ZeroBytes.monster I don't want a reddit bot in my feed. I wanted a clean break during the reddit 3rd party app backstabbing.
Politics and memes.
Social media is a terrible source for accurate, unbiased information. And memes are low quality content that shouldn't be consumed by anyone.
I don’t have any. I instead subscribe to as many communities I find interesting and set my feed to only my subscriptions. I rarely venture out to All and only do when I want to discover more communities.
That's what I do, too. However, I did block some communities, mostly meme- or politics related, so I can briefly browse the "all" category once in a while.
I use the opposite strategy, which is what I did on Reddit: browse All, and block everything that isn't interesting. Sports teams, shows I didn't care about, other niche communities. I prefer this approach because I like finding content I never would have thought to subscribe to.
I’ve found this is exactly the best way to enjoy Lemmy.
None, but my frontpage is subscribed communities only.
