How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)
I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.
What about you?
My blocked community list got significantly shorter when they introduced instance blocking. Got pretty tired of playing furry porn community whackamole.
I have 7 instances blocked. I'm really glad that you can block instances while not blocking the users of those instances. Like I don't want to see any posts from yiffit but being a furry doesn't mean your comments aren't worth reading, ya know?
The other blocked instances are porn and language-specific instances just to clean up my feed
I would love it if blocking all users from an inatance was available as a separate option from the users. I think the majority of my blocked users are from two instances.
Hexbear and lemmy.ml?
The fact that you can so easily guess which two instances proves it would be a useful tool to be able to block all their users.
Yes, those two.
Good to know! I didn't want to miss out on @kolanaki@yiffit.net comments, but now I won't have to worry about it.
I did. Those usernames are too distracting and shout "look at me!", so I'm filtering all of them.
I totally agree. Before I found the option to disable custom display names, I found that guy insufferable...2024 equivalent of xXxUSERNAMExXx. I don't think I've noticed him since, though I'm sure I've read his comments
Coincidentally, the furry porn whack-off-a-mole community is not very popular.
Be the change you want to see. (:
I'm this close to blocking ani.social as well because it's mostly softcore porn. I like Anime, but not like this.
I added that one fast for the same reason. I am not an anime-hater but there's way too much horny anime getting posted for my liking. Too many -chan characters that look basically identical middle schoolers.
I'm gonna need a list of these ridiculous communities. You know, to block them. /S
Zero - I browse by subscribed. I probably have 100~200 comms subscribed to through this account, plus a dozen in my ani.social account.
samesies
How do you guys block thousands of communities? I have blocked around 10. I can exhaust my /all feed around twice a day, there isn't even enough content showing up for me to block 1000+ communities.
LemmyWorld is already defederated from a lot of instances that the average user is likely to be blocking, anyway, so chances are those communities won't show up in your All feed to begin with.
How many is .ee blocking?
I signed up for what I thought was the most open connected free speech instance. But maybe I need to switch
On most Lemmy instances, you can go to the bottom of the front page and click the "Instances" link, and it'll show you all the other instances that one is connected to and which ones they block.
For Lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/instances
I feel like there is a crapload I'm not seeing
Seems like mine doesn't block anything?
https://ttrpg.network/instances
Running out of content to browse is not a bad thing in my view. Then I just go do something else.
Even on my subscribed feed about 5th of the threads are caught by my daily growing list of content filters. I lose nothing of a value by filtering out the noise from the signal. Still waiting for someone to come up with uBlock filter to block threads linking to specific websites.
If a community only has posts I scroll past anyway, why have them show up at all? I want to see an interesting post followed by an interesting post even if it means running out of posts. It's why I can't enjoy Instagram...every other post is an ad I have to scroll past to see what my friends post
All those fucking Moe ones. Don't think I can see that on jerboa, maybe 10?
No communities, but I blocked the whole Lemmy NSFW instance because I am not into porn and autoplay GIFs in my feed is not to my liking. (you all do you I just don't care for it).
Communities related to Anime, soft porn stuff like "pictures of fit women", local communities about some town that's 5,000 km away from me and football.
Just 5 - 3 from hexbear, 1 quasi NSFW that keeps popping up (I have NSFW turned off), and the Far Side one because they're a lot less funny and more boomer humor than I remember.
I get you but I disagree about Far Side because it's almost entirely wholesome. Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is
As opposed to humor boomers actually like...
Boomer humor is not all humor that boomers like. It's humor that was primarily popular in their era - like "I hate my wife" jokes fit because don't really play well anymore
My point is that lots and lots of us didn't really love that kind of stuff at the time. It's just that those kinds of jokes stand out, along with race jokes, because they've aged so badly.
It must suck to be a "normal" boomer in the internet getting lumped in with the shitheads of your demographic. Hell...you're the ones who pushed the civil rights movement.
It's a shame your generation (not you specifically, of course) fucked the world up to the point that every generation after you looks back in disgust and doesn't even consider the things you did right.
What sucks is that people attribute stuff like that to the whole generation; we get painted broadly as very right wing conservatives who are against any social programs. But look at things like the age demographics of the last couple presidential elections. Yes, you'll see that more older people voted conservative than liberal, but not by a large margin. You'll also see that, though more younger folks voted liberal, that margin wasn't huge either. And in our society, it's not unusual for folks to get more conservative as they get older (the opposite for me personally, but it's often true), so it won't be surprising if younger folks today vote more conservatively when they're older.
Huge hunks of boomers are fighting for equal rights for all people, are big proponents of social programs that help those who are disadvantaged, advocate for universal healthcare, and all sorts of other progressive issues. Large numbers of younger people are against those things. The fact that total numbers might tip one way or another doesn't change that, and applying a stereotype to millions of people is always wrong.
I think it's really the policies pushed by the politicians that your generation voted in that led to the boomer hate. My generation will surely be remembered for Trump just like yours for Reagan
Okay, but there were go again. Remember that the oldest boomers were in their mid 30s when Regan was first elected. Take a look at these demographics. Boomers were the ones mostly voting for Carter.
Sorry I think we're on the same page here, my generation is largely anti-trump but we're going to be remembered for voting him in. I was trying to draw the comparison of falsely placed blame.
I understand, and I didn't mean to come off too strong, but you have no idea how many times I've seen people in these communities saying that all boomers are horrible, some even going so far as to say that the world would be better if we were all dead. Unironically. Can you image the backlash if someone said that about any other demographic? A gender? A race? It gets a bit frustrating to be worse than dismissed because of the year I was born, regardless of the fact that I'm a pretty progressive liberal on the same side as most of the people doing the dismissing.
I mostly just block users who post awful shit. But I have blocked a lot of niche Linux communities just because they were taking up most of the page and while I appreciate Linux, I'm not a super hardcore fanboy.
Oh yeah, I didn't think about the Linux communities...I do have a lot of those distro-specific ones blocked. And a bunch of communities for software I don't use
I'm heavy handed with blocking.
I block all the major NSFW instances. Non-english speaking instances. A few of the terminally argumentative instances.
Quite a few communities that cover topics or issues I don't care to read about. And some that are low effort article spam pits.
I block people that want to argue about substanceless nonsense, or try to low-effort goad me.
Bots are also blocked in settings.
That, plus all the obvious propaganda, dogmatic echo chambers, and people who misspell stuff voluntarily, or make extremely basic mistakes ("your wrong", "its that", "there logic", etc) more than once.
Glad I'm not the only one ruthlessly blocking people for petty reasons. I deliberately go into controversial threads just to find the "fuck X", ACAB, eat the rich etc. comments only to block the users. If that's your style of commenting then I'm not interested in what else you've got to say. I don't mind disagreement. I'm simply just not interested in seeing that kind of low effort shitposting on my feed.
"I NEED to be the first to post this popular sentiment but I have literally nothing else to add"
A lot. Not sure how many. Hundreds. Lots of the porn communities for shit that I'm not interested in. Most of the vegan communities. Anime and furry porn, twinks and ladyboys, any women/girls with penises, bondage porn, any community that's just an endless stream of pissing and moaning, tankies and fascists, bimbos and anything that glorifies plastic in female bodies, anything to do with unhealthy bodies, proana, etc. some local communities where I don't live, a fucking baseball communities that posts 100 times a day and lots of team communities. Lots of communities on .ML
I browse all so that I see new communities as they emerge then block them if I'm not interested.
You forgot all the Montero and coin communities! It's a good start though to be sure.
Zero. I typically browse All/Top 6 Hours. Nothing bothers me enough to want to block it.
Yep, and if I wanted a filtered feed I'd view subscribed.
I do the same load but I have lots of blocks to keep down the static of things I am not interested in. Saves me some scrolling.
I blocked /c/unpopularopinion after they deleted one of my posts, shut down the sublemmy, and then re-opened it with the rule "NO POLITICS".
Meanwhile, the top fucking post is "I think people in prison should be allowed to vote".
This is the type of shit guys.
That community, as well as the subreddit it came from, is a dumpster fire. It'd 99% bait or popular opinions.
I do agree with their no politics stance, though. There's 473773 communities to argue politics on already
Unpopular opinion with no politics is like having an art subreddit which only allows images of blank white painted walls. Boring as fuck.
Eh I disagree unless you use the right wing definition of which is "politics is politics plus anything I don't like"
There's a ton of fun stuff to argue about.
I just personally don't care to discuss trivial nonsense. Who gives a shit if someone likes their toast to be burnt?
It's just a conversation starter. The comments in those posts about weird opinions can be pretty funny
The subreddit is really shit though. I've had posts removed where it wasn't political, but got removed because "UHHHH IT NO AN UNPOPULAR OPINION! UHHH!!"
When, just gazing at the front page of the subreddit, you'll find dozens of shit that were allowed to be posted that contradicts the entire meaning of the subreddit itself at every second.
The problem is that the moderators just cannot handle it when someone truly has something spicy of an unpopularopinion to express that isn't gender, race or politically related.
At least 20, most of them are political or I can't understand what they're saying so I don't want to post because of an incorrect translation to prevent unnecessary offense.
I do the same thing. I use all as my home page so I can see new and interesting stuff.
I tend to block most 'ism and 'ism-adjacent communities, Foreign language communities, political communities, NSFW/Fetish, and a few highly specific tech/app/language communities that mostly only post version updates.
Bots. lots of bots. If your community is 90% bot posts/repost aggregation and I see 5-10 posts consecutively in 'all' because your bot just vomited up it's entire load in a 120 second span then I'll probably block it.
There's way too many communities consisting solely of bots reposting from the subreddit of the same name. I do not understand why anyone would want that. There's rarely comments
Leaving a comment feels weird, too. There's not even an OP to talk to, so it's like shouting into the void.
In principle, I do get the need for these communities. Like, if you just want capybara pictures to show up in your feed, then you don't need many comments on those.
But these bots usually spit out far too many posts for my liking, so more often than not, I do block them anyways.
Bot-driven communities feel like ads as opposed to communities with bots that post, say, game patch notes automatically. I want there to be a reason something is posted other than to fill a void
673 communities are blocked. Which, to be honest, is a hell of a lot more than I thought I had blocked. I thought I might have around 150 communities blocked. Most of them are sports, sports teams, video games I have no care for, weird ones, apps, gender communities, and furry oriented communities. I get around the porn ones by not having NSFW enabled.
Memes, politics and gay/gender stuff.
You know how adblock has blocklists… what if we had shareable lemmy blocklists like that? Anyone could create a blocklist and you could import into your client. Would be pretty sweet.
Would have to be fairly frequently updated and constantly monitored.
Thought there would be more. But I block em as I see em.
The irony about "enough musk spam" is they're the ones spamming the most.
The second-to-last one made me actually laugh out loud. What the fuck is that title lol
Aboringdystopia is one of those communities that doesn't resemble its namesake at all. The subreddit had rules to match the theme but the Lemmy equivalent is just the same news articles of shitty things happening that appear on all the other news communities. They're so lax about what constitutes "a boring dystopia," it feels so lazy to me
From what I've heard, that was the idea behind the Enough Musk Spam community, that the spam could be posted there and people could block it.
But yeah, it's a bit counterintuitive...
I don't block any but, as an Admin, I tend to check on all communities (theoretically) in case there's shenanigans. As I am on a smaller instance Local is manageable and then I use Subscribed. All is too much of a firehose of content to use much. So I am more opt-in than opt-out.
Glad you like it.
The tankie trio, and a load of gay/trans stuff I have no interest in seeing.
28, all the gay porn, yiff/furry, and male anatomy ones that I've caught while browsing c/all.
Does the app you use let you block posts from an instance while not blocking the comments? If so, something to consider for yiffit.
the yiffit users out in the wild are the funniest ones to me.
Zero. I don't need to block communities as I only browse subscriptions.
I browse all, but I've only blocked a couple of dozen. Every one is just a language I don't understand or American football (I'm just not a fan). But I have a "disable NSFW" button on my client so I use that if I'm in public.
I don't mind seeing things in my feed that aren't my thing as long as they don't take over.
I just watch subscribed communities. To me that's just too much noise. So I haven't blocked any.
How do you know what to sub to? I've found Lemmy's search to be even worse than reddit's due to federation causing tons of "duplicate" communities
Idk. There have been some sites recommending the alternative to a subreddit. I scrolled through that. And put keywords for my interests into the search bar. Occasionally I spend some minutes scrolling through the 'All' feed and subscribing. Or when somebody links a crosspost. Over time I've also unsubscribed from lemmy.ml communities because I don't agree with their moderation practices. Found alternatives to that. And I've unsubscribed from most of the news communities, because reading about world politics is weighing me down and this place (Lemmy) is a lot about discussing the news.
I'm subscribed to roughly 100 communities now. Some of them are duplicates or a wasteland, that's just how it is. But I like that this way, my feed is somehow tailored to my interests. And there is no doom-scrolling any more, which I like too.
Fair enough! It's nice that we can tailor our experiences in completely different ways.
A crap ton of them - too many to count quickly. My intent was to sort by subscribed, but we're still getting a lot of new communities, so I mostly sort by new, and block communities I have no interest in or that spam a lot. The most common categories are gay porn, bot-generated content, and overly prolific meme communities.
What, do you want to relive Reddit's Greatest Hits 20 different communities??
Yeah, kind of dumb. I didn't mind it as much if it's a community for posting pics or videos, as long as the bot isn't dumping huge numbers of posts. What really annoys me is when they do it for communities that are more discussion based. They were doing it in AITA and other question-oriented ones. It makes no sense: someone asks a question on Reddit and people here are going to answer it?
Hooollyy shit I totally forgot about those and had the exact same complaint! If I'm remembering correctly, at least some of those communities were from bots not flagged as bots. So you had people replying because they didn't know...
They were some of my early blocklist entries for sure
Yep, mine too. If I could take care of the problem by blocking the account, I did that, but a lot of times I ended up blocking the community.
If a community has reddit in the title. I block.
Don't want to see people bitch about a site you don't use eh?
Blocking Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Lemmy.ml fixed 99% of my issues with this place.
Oh right, I think I blocked those too.
I actually have no idea--I primarily use Eternity, and I'm not sure whether the "block community" button is a Lemmy thing or an Eternity thing.
But mainly I've blocked bot-post communities, furry stuff, and anything else that vomits dozens of posts in a row (I've got NSFW blocked, so c/all is pretty manageable).
I just counted it yesterday. 500 communities (for a large part porn, anime and foreign ones) and 550 users.
Still waiting for someone to come up with uBlock filter to also block threads linking to specific websites.
I have that feature in the app i use. Sync.
Yeah many apps have features natively that I need to come up with workarounds for. I personally just don't want to use an app for something I can also do in browser. The less apps I have on my phone the better.
Wow that's a lot of users!
About 65 communities. It's either due to them being too active so they flood my feed, or if most of the content is ragebait (e.g. politics based)
i wasn't even aware that was a thing you could do, but i suppose it makes sense.
Oh and it's none just for the record.
I've blocked 15 instances for overall spam/trash comments and 210 individuals subs so far.
Furrys, anime, spam, porn, alt-right, etc.
I don't think I've seen any far right stuff but I'm on .world which probably defederated already
A lot, I've blocked all political, non-english, and anime communities that show up
It's hard to say. I use a keyword block that auto-blocks any community with "meme" in its title. So it could be dozens, or even hundreds. I've never counted. I have similar keywords for things I'm not interested in like "waifu", "anime", and most stuff adjacent to those topics.
492, apparently. Mostly bot communities, (US) politics, anime and tons of communities for specific sports teams, TV shows, games, technologies etc..
Well another commenter just told me that blocking sports and anime is equivalent to an echo chamber so we both better unblock them to have a healthier worldview /s
I forgot about the game subs in my estimate...I've got a lot of those blocked. I just don't care about patch notes for games I don't play.
I've basically blocked all meme communities.
I'm only here for the memes
3, i don't remember why i blocked them
You probably blocked Risa for the same reason I did....wayyyyyy too many posts. It was half my feed before I blocked it.
Science_memes is basically just a generic meme sub and is very close to hitting my blocklist for the same reason
Entomology...I don't even have a guess. Are you grossed out by bugs, maybe?
You are very good at guessing
I exclusively browse All and have blocked 615 communities and 2 instances.
Is there a way to block non English content? The last time I looked into this, you could choose to only see English content, but that would also filter out all content which didn't have a language specified. This made the filtering unviable because most content doesn't specify the language and most content is in English.
I set my language and don't see a lot of non-English communities but I'm not sure if those two things are related. I don't mind filtering them out, it's no more than a couple per week
You can choose both English and "unspecified." You'll still see some non-English stuff when people don't set the language, but it will filter out all of the posts where the language is set to something else.
Thanks, will try that!
You can block communities?
Yes. Not sure what app you use but for me I click the dots in the corner of a post and pick Block Community and Block User
It works on Jerboa
Current version of Lemmy supports this natively
Over a thousand, for sure? I hate memes. I'm just scrolling light conversations. No deep politics or debates. No depressing news, anime, etc
The worst part about meme subs is that they have a decade of subreddits to repost from. I know...insert xkcd comic about being the lucky 10,000...but personally I've seen all those reposts of overused templates 100 times over the years and don't want to see them again
I have two accounts. One has all the more serious news type stuff blocked and the other is unfiltered. Its nice to be able to take a break from reading about war and disease. I get most of that news from Mastadon anyway.
That's a good idea. I've blocked so much almost all I get is depressing news. They need to let you export blocked lists. Mines so long it's probably worth something.
I don't blacklist.
I whitelist, view Subscribed rather than All.
What I want to go hunting for new communities to subscribe to, I use lemmyverse.net, which can see all of the communities on the Threadiverse, not just the ones that someone on my instance has subscribed to.
Got 20 communities blocked and coincidentally 20 users blocked 🙃
Wait, you're blocking porn, sports, and anime?
Those are the fun parts...
Nope, porn sport and anime bore me to tears... all blocked, plus a bunch of hyper-regional communities (sorry, Seattle, I'm in Europe, so the internal affairs of your city have little interest to me). I also had to block c/India because it kept getting pushed into my /all list.
I actually really like the regional communities lol
I know a lot about Bedfordshire now!
Yeah, same about c/india. It kind of annoys me, because I would have been interested in some of their culture, food etc., but it was just a ton of posts and mostly about politics...
Blocking regional communities is one thing, sure.
I was partially joking, but anime, cartoons, sports, and some tasteful/ethical NSFW are all topics I'm hella interested in but don't get much play here. There's basically no boxing/MMA/basketball/football here.
Each day i feel too normie for this place
I'm not into the skinny models that most porn features and a lot of irl porn comes with a host of ethical issues,
Porn: there's so much of it on here. If I didn't block most of it, it'd be half my feed
Sports: I simply do not give a shit about the stats of some cricket game I didn't know about
Anime: I'm frankly just sick of the art style that so much of it shares. I don't dislike anime as a rule but for a lot of shows, you could drop any character into another anime and they'd fit right in. And on top of that, I can't stand the hyper sexualization of immature female characters that is so prevalent in the genre. I don't think middle schoolers are hot so I don't like when "sexy" characters act like one
Sure! Your reasons are valid and I'm not asking you to defend them.
I certainly don't like everything in any of those categories either. I've got slices I'm into, but yeah, the broad categories are def part of my interests.
Interesting. Here on lemmy.ml, none of the porn shows up, because I guess, it's blocked at the instance level. Unfortunately, I do still get horny anime posts every so often...
Lemmynsfw must not be federated with lemmy.ml and that's where it's concentrated so that makes sense. Horny anime posts are an instant block for me and I think I've taken care of most of them. I usually just see the -moe communities pop up now.
336 apparently, I did not realize I blocked that many.
It adds up!
I've blocked over 1000 communities.
How would you describe your blocklist? Like what categories and what ratio between them?
All things I'm not interested in that tend to fall into these categories:
Edit: I've probably also blocked a handful of obscurely named subs that have no description or shit descriptions. Like a sub called grobslafup and the description is "everything related to grobslafup!" As if people know what the obscure thing is but don't know that a sub titled after it is going to be related to it. 🙄
Now I want to know more about grobslafup
302
Whatcha got on there?
Porn, anime, sports, a bunch of video games I don't play, and some spammy or obnoxious communities too. Oh, and foreign languages I don't speak (until we get built-in translation)
I also browse exclusively all. I only bother blocking the non-English and porn communities. Looks like that's 315, for me.
Yeah I have a similar strategy
700 at last count
I block all communities based around a single sports team and most sports, also any based around a geographic location smaller than national-level. Anything based around a state, city, town etc is always negative.
I kinda like those regional communities for some reason!
29 communities, mostly news. I'm here for memes, not links to articles.
Also a few atheism communities, because I'm not a fan of seeing posts bashing my religion from a community where the rules forbid me from saying anything in its defense.
To be clear, I'm not trying to say it's unfair for atheism communities to have those rules. Your community, your rules. But if I'm seeing those posts, I'm going to be bothered, and if I respond, I'm going to break the rules and bother everyone else. Better to not see it in the first place.
In the same way, I'd expect atheists to block a Christian community if it were trending - though I'd be willing to meet them in constructive debate in such a community if the rules permitted it.
Blocking is a community is how I control my personal feed, it's not a condemnation.
I'm "atheist" but I can't stand the atheism subs. There's just not much to talk about. You could replace them with one post titled "religion sure is stupid, right??" and nothing would be lost.
Makes sense. You don't exactly have atheist scriptures to study and discuss, and you're not going to have any atheological discussions on how nature reflects the lack of a god.
Yep. I don't like calling myself an atheist because I can't stand emphatic atheists. I'm not gonna define my identity by what I don't believe and I could not care less about what other people believe as long as what they practice isn't harmful. If religion brings you joy and you aren't oppressing someone in it's practice, why should I have an opinion on it? You do you!
Well, there can be some things to talk about, like if you live in a country that's mostly religious, then how did you find a romantic partner, or how did you "come out" to your parents etc..
But the "Religion, am I right?"-posts are easy to make and will naturally get a lot more upvotes than a discussion post, so the latter get buried, unfortunately.
About 330. A crap ton of porn stuff, furry, bondage, etc. Several non-English communities. Operating system related stuff like Linux or android. A few “normal” communities that are on instances that don’t allow much dissent or contrary opinion.
Only those with other languages that I do not understand and that somehow still show on my feed.
over 30. I personally prefer more serious discussion because I'm a dork. I'm not into most sports, jokes, video games or other whimsical stuff. I like some of that stuff IRL, but I consider the internet primarily of use for deeper discussion of topics that most people might not necessarily have an interest in. Like NASAs nuclear powered project Orion spacecraft in the 1960s.
Peoples eyes normally glaze over when I talk about that stuff offline, but there are billions online, and usually someone else finds that niche stuff as interesting as me.
It would be nice if you could select which topics interest you rather than having to block every community that does not.
Niche communities are what makes the internet great.
I mean you kinda can do exactly that through subscriptions. Sub to the places you like and browse your main feed instead of All
I try to block communities discussing politics, cringe memes and Linux. I have about 50 blocked at the moment.
Almost 200 pretty much exclusively from lemmynsfw before you could block a whole instance.
Once they added that, I've blocked very very few communities.
Same here, instance blocking was a nice add on that I wish we had earlier.
I've blocked 40ish instances and hundreds of communities. Everything I find boring, not interesting or trying too hard.
Around 40 communities of irrelevant or annoying stuff.
I mostly use All as well. I have the following blocked:
all the meme communities that pop up. It's just spammy posts
all beehaw communities. Mostly because they were defederated with the largest lemmy communities, and I didn't want to talk to only a small subset of users. Not sure if they've changed anything since
hexbear because... Hexbear
Meme communities are "content" in the worst sense of the word. No substance, just sludge
I have my main feed as no NSFW. I might have half a dozen blocked.
My NSFW feed, probably has 40+ blocked.
1500+
Zero.
Don't know how to check, but I am on mbin, not Lemmy.
No specific communities, just the entire instance of hexbear.net (lemmygrad.ml is already blocked on my instance)
I've blocked 10 or so instances and over 500 individual communities. Mostly by browsing /new and just killing anything I don't have the slightest interest in.
The instances I've blocked are leftist, furry, porn and anime related, plus one that's hosting sports communities exclusively.
None, the insanity I sometimes encounter can be entertaining. I'll just log off if its too much.
How many communities are on lemmy.ml?
I thought I blocked a lot, but seeing the posts here, I don't block nearly enough. I have about 100 communities and about 60 users blocked.
Im on kbin and it does not show a total but I block anything in languages I don't know or that seems to be all memes or sports related but certainly not anime or porn.
Since you're an anime enjoyer, I have a question: do you ever find that there's a lack of variety in the art styles? I was pretty into it in the 90s/2000s but it seems like there's a new anime every week that looks identical to the one before it
Yes but I think thats a bit the same with all media. There is still tons of relatively recent anime that is really unique like attack on titan or To Your Eternity or even spy family.
I saw the first two seasons of AoT and liked it a lot. It has a well-defined art style. My only "complaint" is that I had a hard time telling a few characters apart
Do you know the word/name for the art style I described in my other comment? I call it "kawaii anime" but I know that's not right lol
Im sorta a poser when it comes to fandom. I like stuff but I don't have the obsession that drives really getting into a lot of details. So I totally don't know are styles and such. Its sorta like museums. I like to go and I like what I like but I don't necessarily have great depth of knowledge of art style or periods or such. Its only due to memes that I know the getting sucked into a fantasy world has a name and I can't even recall that atm. I mean I could google it right now but I just don't care much that the particular term is X but if someone mentions it in a convo I will likely remember that what they are talking about with context clues. im thinking its like ikea with an s somewhere and i or something.
IKEA anime actually works really well for what I'm describing lol
Not necessarily bad but it is bland and unoriginal. The main difference for this analogy is that I wouldn't consider IKEA to be childlike
lol. not my intention but cool. Maybe it will become a thing.
Zero. Every time I've been on the verge of blocking a community (or instance, since kbin can do that) it winds up vanishing anyway.
Here? Not many, I sub to things I find interesting and browse my subscribed feed.
Reddit? Hundreds of subreddits if not more. If it's full of rage or engagement bait, intolerance or it's a community devoted to punching down I've probably blocked it.
30ish
I don't know, but it's mostly memes and gay stuff.
hexbear, lemmygrad and all news communities. Also turn off the NSFW post.
Only these 2:
Because they:
Earns them more what? There are no ads here unless you locked yourself into an app that pushes them.
Each article,
links to a news site,
which is riddled with data trackers,
which collects info about you,
which is sold.
In addition the sites contain advertisements.
The 'them' in your first comment was pretty obviously about the lemmy admins on those servers profiting from doom scrolling. Now you are talking about "news" sites selling your data.
This sounds like something you made up to not be wrong. It is ok to be wrong. Just incorporate the new info and move on.
Or you guys just misunderstood each other. It is ok to misunderstand each other once in a while. No one needs to be declare right or wrong for this interaction.
Fair enough. Cheers,
How do you think news sites earn money? They do not provide that content for free,
you are their product of which they benefit.
I use NoScript,
which tells me about each JavaScript piece a website has, most if not all of them contain trackers (= data collection).
getting a challenge to your world views can be healthy; i hope you enjoy your echo chamber
Uhh that's why I browse All, my dude.
But thanks to your obnoxious comment, I now understand that sports, porn, and anime are a "worldview" and I'm unhealthy for blocking them. You are right, my life would be better if I knew that the Dodgers were trading Jimmy McBaseball. Not sure how I lived without seeing hardcore anal porn or Generic Anime #6362 on my feed every day