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I'm playing whack a mole constantly, blocking all these anime subs!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It’s not just anime, but also (in my experience) music, games, and ai. They seem to feel that there needs to be a community for every. single. possible. sub-genre. 😞

You can say the same for politics, memes, and many other genres for that matter. And I have no doubt there are those that are bothered by it too. Yes, we can all hide away under our local or subscribed feeds, but that’s a narrow-minded and xenophobic solution. We all should be able to scroll whatever feed, using whatever sort, we choose to use and not be assailed and harassed by these fervent die-hard (possibly ocd) “fans” of whatever genre du jour there happens to be.

It’s a shame that Lemmy does not have a way to tag communities by genre. And it’s a shame most communities probably wouldn’t use it even if it were supported. It would not only help filtering out specific content, but conversely it would help with content discovery. Of course there is also any potential for abuse, because let’s face it, there are those that will just because they can. But I do t feel that’s worth not having a useful feature like tagging or whatever you want to call it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

We all should be able to scroll whatever feed, using whatever sort, we choose to use and not be assailed and harassed by these fervent die-hard (possibly ocd) “fans” of whatever genre du jour there happens to be.

If you don't like specific communities, block them?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I browse by All, and rarely see them anymore. I think my instance and community blocking strategy must be working.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I miss the 2000’s, when people were a little bit ashamed to admit they like anime. Now like half the people on the internet literally have anime profile pictures. It’s weird as fuck.

It wouldn’t even annoy me so bad if I didn’t constantly get targeted for anime related advertising. I can’t stand anime. Why does my algorithm think I want anime things? I will never buy a big titted anime figurine, and just seeing one makes me curse the gods for giving me sight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why does my algorithm think I want anime things?

Lemmy shows everything to everyone except if you block the communities.

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

Lemmy is like the only social media I have that doesn’t try to fist fuck anime down my throat strangely enough. I block them when I see them tho so maybe that’s why

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They chill until they post sexy pictures of 16 year old characters.

Then you post the age of the character in the post. That more fun than blocking.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Maybe slap some quotes on sexy

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh it is definitely a lot of whacking and blocking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Just go to the subscribed section so you don't have to deal with them.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

You can choose to browse all, local or subscribed. My guess is, you don’t spend much time checking the subscribed feed if you end up seeing stuff you don’t care about. It’s true that pretty much everything in the “all” menu is irrelevant stuff I don’t want to see, so I don’t really check that place very often.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes. My block list is YUGE.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

this is how i manage it, people say use subscribed but that shit blocks you in. fedi needs people posting across communities to liven it up

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

fedi needs people posting across communities to liven it up

Curious coming from someone with 0 posts.

But yes, we do need more people

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hopefully you downvoted.

Because if you agree, then it's NOT an unpopular opinion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Wait where are you seeing all the sports content? Any sport communities I browse have only a handful of regulars knocking about (don't get me wrong, I'm glad of them, but it's not quite the same as Reddit)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There is a post about sport communities on [email protected]

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

With sports it is more annoying because they tend to come in through bursts for very specific communities, like individual sports teams. Blocking each sports team community one at a time is like playing whack a mole.

It isn't that they are overwhelming the All - Hot feed all the time, but there are bursts where they do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Back in the day, when Reddit was a thing, I always wanted some sort of dynamic curated block list. If I were to subscribe to the "sports" block list, then all the current sports subs would be added to my filters. Every time a new sports sub gets created, users have the ability to add that new sub to the dynamic "sports" list. At that point, everyone else that is subscribed to that "sports" list gets that new sub added to their filters automatically.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (8 children)

?

I don't see any anime subs by default just browsing the lemmy.world all page when sorted by hot, active, scaled, or new. So what exactly are you doing, and where do I sign up?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It comes and goes in waves I believe. There was a time when you’d see a wave of Moe themed communities. The same has happened for music, and ai too. If you haven’t seen it, or don’t recall, then count yourself lucky.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've had to block a lot of anime subs. It was a problem for a while, but now I hardly see any.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Yes, blocking something you don't want to see usually results in seeing fewer of that thing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Not when that thing has dozens of communities for every little nuance a genre can have. For example:

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yes, OP's post is unpopular.

I would also like to sign up for Anime news and updates.

Please lmk how to do this.

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

You might try ani.social instance for more anime.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

There is a post about anime communities on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

For grins just now I scrolled through ten (10) pages on "all" (i.e. including federated and not just local lemmy.world posts) and sorted by "hot" (the default).

I got one MurderMoe post, one ChainsawFolk post, and one TouhouProject post.

...And about ten linuxmemes posts, I didn't even count how many politics posts, several TenForward posts, like five Lemmy Shitposts entries, quite a few News and World news, and three inscrutable posts in Arabic despite by content language being set to English.

Barely a single pair of anime tiddies among the whole lot. What a drag.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

No, surprisingly.

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

This has been my experience. Not complaining tbh but yeah when people complain about how they see "so much x" I begin to wonder if the rage-algo kicked in

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Then, after the general and porn communities have been blocked, the specific show communities pop up. At least the anime fans on lemmy aren’t insufferable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

For a second I wasn't sure if I had posted this and just didn't remember it

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