In my personal opinion, this site is completely unusable without heavy content filtering. Just being picky about which communities to follow and users to block isn’t enough.
That said, I realize I might be in the minority on this, so I’m curious what others are doing to preserve their sanity.
I don’t use a filter. I subscribe to communities that interest me. Keep NSFW posts turned off. browse by hot, scaled and multi cummonies related to tech and all that I like.
I am on .world and filter nothing because there is nothing sketchy really…
Ive blocked worldnews and that seems to have done the trick.
I dont know enough about how lemmy works, but see a bunch of discussion about “let’s defederate with other instances” so its possible that whoevers running this show is doing the censoring for me. If it works something like I think it does, I dont like the concept but am pretty happy with the results so
I Block any AI community that schlorps its sweaty corpse up on the shores of All.
I filter foreign language subs/instances, not because of any disdain towards them, but just because when they wake up for the day, my feed is flooded with .de posts that I unfortunately do not understand.
None. I subscribe to about 50 groups or so, and it’s fine. None are NSFW or anything, some are news, most are hobbies or general interest.
I also never block anyone, I find that really weird. Been online for decades, never had a need for it.
I don’t bother with all, I don’t see the point.
Nothing. I just take what it gives.
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IDK, I just block NSFW posts in settings, haven’t seen anything really objectionable so I think it’s working. From there I block all the politics and news communities., that helps my blood pressure. After that it’s just a matter of filtering the stuff that simply doesn’t interest me. I honestly wish you could just whitelist comms or users to show up on your feed rather than having to block everything.
Blahaj modding and a few manual user blocks, plus blocking communities I’m uninterested in. I haven’t blocked any terms, because I don’t like the idea of missing posts that happen to match one keyword and potentially missing a post I’m interested in.
I block subjects containing the names Trump or Musk. They’ve slowed down, but even with the filters I still get plenty about them. For a while it seemed like they were half my feed.
The basic blocking system.
Feels bad to use, though, blocking whole communities. I wish there was a simple “mute” button. But if there is I haven’t found it.
Not sure if the algorithm for scaled could be better to try and find new communities, otherwise I usually check hot/subscribed first which helps filter it.
Just .ml and specific communities around sex or identity. Individual users, tags are your friend
Block the comm. That’s all.
Common sense
I browse All pretty much exclusively. You can make it a decent feed, but it takes some doing…
At this point it might make more sense just to have a home feed
But then you can’t find new communities
Just browse the list of communities once in awhile. Pretty easy to do.
People share communities all the time and there are communities dedicated to discovering new communities like /c/newcommunities@lemmy.world or /c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
I find it easier to occasionally exclude a community I’m not interested in than have to hunt for ones I am
Which is a pretty good advertisement for the fediverse actually. I’d love to know how many of those thousand blocked communities are still active, but not enough to bother working it out.
Yeah a lot of those were communities that just appeared out of nowhere and spammed my All suddenly - which was likely just one person trying to get the ball rolling with a topic I’m not interested in. Whether that initial wave of content ended up attracting an active community vs just fizzling out, idk, but a good chunk of them are probably ghost communities now.
Another good chunk are redundant communities - like 5 or 6 if those blocks are some variant of “To my badass hero” which is the same poster that keeps making new communities for softcore black and white porn… I can only assume in effort to circumvent blocks like mine.
The number of real/active communities on my blocklist is probably closer to a couple hundred - the rest of just the result of content whack-a-mole to clean up short term messes.
Congratulations, you’ve just earned yourself a block from @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world.
Cocks banhammer
I’ve similarly blocked all the communities I’m not interested in - to the point that my All feed is basically the same as my Subscribed feed, just with more memes on it.
Still, it’s not enough. I don’t want to block entire news communities, for example, just because I’m not into certain stories.
I even tried blocking users until I basically nuked my whole feed. That’s why I went back to just blocking the worst offenders and leaning harder on filtering out comments too.
Block any community that is either sports, local area, news, crypto, AI, music, and us politics.
