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 only show communities I’m subscribed to explicitly in my feed. I also block users like it’s going out of fashion.
Anyone spamming things I don’t care for in my feed, trolls, rage baters, or just people posting shit I have no desire to interact with our think about on the regular.
I’m using Lemmy mainly as an aggregator for memes, cat pictures, sci-fi, comics, and the likes, and like to be able to browse it on the bus or similar without worrying about what might show up.
If it’s not for me, I’m most likely in the wrong community. If that’s not the case I just block the poster. Nothing personal, it just doesn’t jive with my desired experience for any number of reasons, so I just block it, ignore it, and move on.
Lemmy is for everyone, and I can’t expect all of them to want the same out of it as me, so I can’t, won’t, and shouldn’t do anything else about it.