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.

            • med@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              4·
              4 days ago

              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.

              • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                4 days ago

                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.

    • Perspectivist@feddit.ukOP
      7·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    3 days ago

    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

  • KaChilde@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    4 days ago

    Block any community that is either sports, local area, news, crypto, AI, music, and us politics.

  • tehmics@lemmy.world
    192·
    4 days ago

    There’s so little content, I can’t imagine filtering it. I just browse All, sorted by Hot.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
    3·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • whelk@retrolemmy.com
    9·
    3 days ago

    I’ve blocked tons of communities that are dedicated solely to posting voluptuous anime women, and one or two instances that are clearly dedicated to trolling and rage bait. Not much other than that I don’t think. I frequently browse all, but if I’m not in the mood for politics and cynicism I just stick to my subscribed feed, which is nice to be able to do.

    Those anime women communities are like a hydra, though. Block one and two more take its place

    • grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      Seriously. The anime and furry communities are nuts. I have blocked so many of them, and the people posting in them but it seems like every day there’s a new batch to filter out. Is there really a need for so many communities dedicated to that?

    • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      3 days ago

      The anime women are the worst. I don’t like anime, and I’m a heterosexual woman. I don’t want to see my feed consisting of endless half naked anime women. No thanks. Make them go away and stay away.