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How many communities do you have blocked? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

What about you?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Most of them are non english communities. Haven't had to block them in a while, I must have gotten all of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

How many communities are on lemmy.ml?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Zero.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

673 communities are blocked. Which, to be honest, is a hell of a lot more than I thought I had blocked. I thought I might have around 150 communities blocked. Most of them are sports, sports teams, video games I have no care for, weird ones, apps, gender communities, and furry oriented communities. I get around the porn ones by not having NSFW enabled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

The tankie trio, and a load of gay/trans stuff I have no interest in seeing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Memes, politics and gay/gender stuff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Blocking Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Lemmy.ml fixed 99% of my issues with this place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh right, I think I blocked those too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I don't know, but it's mostly memes and gay stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

i wasn't even aware that was a thing you could do, but i suppose it makes sense.

Oh and it's none just for the record.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Got 20 communities blocked and coincidentally 20 users blocked 🙃

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A lot. Not sure how many. Hundreds. Lots of the porn communities for shit that I'm not interested in. Most of the vegan communities. Anime and furry porn, twinks and ladyboys, any women/girls with penises, bondage porn, any community that's just an endless stream of pissing and moaning, tankies and fascists, bimbos and anything that glorifies plastic in female bodies, anything to do with unhealthy bodies, proana, etc. some local communities where I don't live, a fucking baseball communities that posts 100 times a day and lots of team communities. Lots of communities on .ML

I browse all so that I see new communities as they emerge then block them if I'm not interested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You forgot all the Montero and coin communities! It's a good start though to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Almost 200 pretty much exclusively from lemmynsfw before you could block a whole instance.

Once they added that, I've blocked very very few communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Same here, instance blocking was a nice add on that I wish we had earlier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

About 330. A crap ton of porn stuff, furry, bondage, etc. Several non-English communities. Operating system related stuff like Linux or android. A few “normal” communities that are on instances that don’t allow much dissent or contrary opinion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Zero. I don't need to block communities as I only browse subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

302

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whatcha got on there?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Porn, anime, sports, a bunch of video games I don't play, and some spammy or obnoxious communities too. Oh, and foreign languages I don't speak (until we get built-in translation)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A lot, I've blocked all political, non-english, and anime communities that show up

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