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How many communities do you block if it's >0? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Sprite@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Question to people who block communities, how many? What's your criteria? I, uhhh, block a measly 586 communities.

My criteria is as follows:

nuked nearly all meme ones
nuked meta ones for instances outside of mine, as I find my ingerence unfair
nuked meta ones for countries I've no past with and no interest in making future with
nuked soft porn / porn ones from .world
nuked duplicate communities from instances which block many instances, so I get most diversity of opinions since they crosspost anyway
blocked AI art communities
generally anything related to AI, crypto and other topics I don't have any interest in
blocking all/near-all image and video oriented communities, because I'm here for engagement, not browsing images and most definitely not for videos

I'm very pro curating my own experience, as you may see. It's quite slow, but at least I seldom get things I don't want to check out, apart from some posts from technology.

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[–] aprilmay@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I blocked a ton of non-english communities because my app doesn't let you block instances. Also like 4 different hackernews repost bot communities because I want to read that on HN.

I wish there was a better way to get English only

[–] Sprite@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The new Lemmy version will allow instance blocking. I personally fear using it, because I fear it may nuke the users even when they speak English. I also wish I was less lazy and just used a translator, but, alas, I'm lazy.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully the instance block feature let you choose between blocking only the posts or block both the posts and comments from that instance.

[–] Sprite@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Or just communities. IDK how they'll implement it, but I cannot imagine any use for myself where I don't risk losing good content, so I'll just keep selective blocking.