Why?

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 days ago

    Nothing, but i have a word blocklist on trump, elon and ice. So that way I am up to date because some stuff still comes through, but not knee deep in the fascism takeover of the US (at least on Lemmy 🥲)

  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
    115·
    6 days ago

    Don’t have any instances blocked, but I block all the political, trans, furry, and mental illness communities. I wish people wouldn’t post political stuff to the YSK or general memes communities, there are 5 million better places to post that on lemmy, but it’s manageable.

  • nomad@infosec.pub
    183·
    7 days ago

    Blocked most furry and trans communities. I’m not against it, not into it and its overrepresented here for obvious reasons.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        1·
        5 days ago

        Made me laugh, anyway.

        For those not in on the joke:

        Some of today’s best hackers are members of the furry community, and infosec.pub is a hub for Cybersecurity discussions.

          • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
            1·
            4 days ago

            I think you’re in denial.

            I challenge you (and anyone) to explore the furry community and not run across some excellent Cybersecurity content!

            • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
              11·
              4 days ago

              You don’t know me but I’ve been working in IT since before the internet had pictures, and actual credit hours in cybersecurity. Yes there is a subsection of furries that are into it, but you’re naive if you think that today’s best hackers even have a publicly accessible profiles.

              The intersection is interesting, but points more to the confluence of social media activity and subversive mindsets than any inherent proclivity for tech.

              I.e. people active on social media and therefore more well known are likely to have nontraditional values, and a certain percent are tech savvy that’s not too far off from the per-capita of any other terminally online subculture.

              More to the point, there are several subcultures that claim to have ‘today’s best hackers’, anons, modders, crackers, AI bros, cryptobros, kernel contributors, hell even freaking gacha bros have a legit claim.

              Being furry is no more an indicator than being into NFTs but people like to create narratives in their head that uplifts their chosen values, it’s just standard tribal monkey behavior

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    All the non-English ones. If I can’t read it then there’s no point to having it clutteting things up.

    Also all the porn. That’s not what I’m here for.

  • Raltoid@lemmy.world
    English
    194·
    7 days ago

    The German ones who have the language set to English but only post in German. And the reason should be pretty obvious: They’re assholes who are intentionally clogging up the feed of another language.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      102·
      7 days ago

      Same. I block every instance and topic thats not in english. I cant read it and am not about to learn danish or german or whatever it is, so its an utter waste of my and lemmys time and bandwidth to show it to me. It should really be a standard feature.

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      7 days ago

      They mostly don’t have the language set at all, like 99% of all posts and the reason is nobody cares.

    • simulacra_procession@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      I actually really enjoy translating the whole comments pages sometimes if I get the meme through context clues, can’t tell if things get lost in translation or German humor is just really odd though…

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    101·
    7 days ago

    Blocked furry and most trans stuff. A ton of the porn that littered my feed. That’s probably 75% of my blocklist. Many non-english communities, though I’ve kept a few to run through translators just to see what’s going on in other countries. Communities with high post counts of memes that spam my feed. Any /c with no interest in good faith discussion.

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    The whole lemmynsfw instance. Don’t need that distraction here.

    Text filters - any keywords for news topics that I’ve had enough of (mostly reoccurring political topics)

    Weird meme shit from some strange community (or something that is just not my generation) - block the whole community.

    A poster who’s engaging in bad faith - blocked, never to be heard from again.

    I also set my mobile client (Connect) to mark posts that I’ve scrolled by as read, and to only show unread posts.

    I filter by All / Top 6 hours

    My experience on Lemmy is getting better and better, and I feel no need to doom scroll here.

  • hraegsvelmir@ani.social
    3·
    6 days ago

    Mostly just sports communities. They tend to post a lot, and I just don’t really care about sports outside of Motorsport. If Arsenal has some insane game, or gets a great player signed, I’ll hear about it at work sooner or later, either from coworkers or a customer. I would say the only big sport that doesn’t apply to between those played in North America and Europe is probably cricket, cause nobody has time for it. Then again, haven’t seen a single cricket post, either.

    I can stay current on what’s going on with the NFL, NBA, MLB, Premier League, rugby and even hurling, just by showing up to work, so there’s no real benefit to seeing it here, too.

    Also, AI communities get blocked pretty much as soon as they pop up in my feed. The novelty of “Hah, that’s crazy that a computer made this image” has long since worn off, and I have no interest in seeing the umpteenth iteration of some AI take on art or photography.

    I don’t have the option ticked to show nsfw content, and people have generally been good about tagging such content, so I haven’t had to block anything there.

  • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    • games I don’t play but which tend to clutter All by being highly posted/active (Hololive, Honkaistarrail, etc.)

    • “stop drinking” related comms because they were too frequent in the feed, I already stopped drinking because I’m too old and cranky to deal with hangovers, and a lot of them were giving me creepy cult vibes tbh

    • “witchesvspatriarchy” and related because I find that kind of humor snobby and grating

    • a few other women/feminism related comms. I’m a lesbian who struggles with internalized misogyny, I’ll fully admit that. But some of these posts are unhinged misandry and a lot of them are just depressing to read and probably not good for my mental health