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.
Just .ml and specific communities around sex or identity. Individual users, tags are your friend
Blocking the tankie instances does most of the work for me.
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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.
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.
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.
I’m personally using adblocker to hide posts with the following keywords:
xitter, united, ceo, c.e.o., exec, brian thompson, health exec, luigi, uhc, rednote, pets sunday, trump, elon, musk, nazi, fascis, israel, idf, ice, iceblock, palestin, gaza, project 2025, deport, kirsti, deepseek, rfk, it’s monday, it’s tuesday, it’s wednesday, it’s thursday, it’s friday, it’s saturday, it’s sunday, hobbies wednesday, music monday, billionair, republican, far right, far-right, maga, doge, LGBT, pronoun, trans, gulf, christian right, nancy mace, abortion, immigrat, gop, migrant, x, measles, pedo, transgender, queer, bondi, capitalis, sandy, cybertruck, tesla, tsla, protest, hegseth, windows, executive dysfunction, waltz, detain, pope, usaid, netanyahu, palantir, curfew, Kristi, week-end, microsoft, fucklapd, epstein, ghislaine, slop, altman, nexus, kirk, genocide, zohran, kimmel, mar-a-lago, linkedin, crypto, comey, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, transpho, zionis, antifa, racis, Jake paul, us aid, guard, patrol, snap, amazon, google, openai, meta, ai, scraper, ads
I also have a similar list for the common phrases used in mean comments:
xitter, x-itter, muskrat, douchebag, chud, acab, guillotine, piece of shit, pedo, boot, leopard, bibi, fuck alex, fuck zuck, fuck musk, fuck trump, fuck spez, fuck elon, elonia, twat, pigboy, eat shit, dipshit, dumbass, fuckem, fucker, shitbag, fuck nestle, dumbfuck, class traitor, idiot, fuck off, fuck you, depose musk, fuck matt walsh, fuck america, shithead, assclown, pukebag, cunt, avocado toast, temporarily embarrassed billionaire, bootlick, elon, musk
You’re filtering out kirk and my first thought was, “what does he have against Star Trek?”
Well, I do have Star Trek communities blocked too. That said, I don’t block stuff because I have something against it per se - I’m usually just sick of seeing it flood my feed constantly.
I even block topics I’m genuinely into, like AI, because I know the comment sections will be a total shitshow and I don’t want to tempt myself.
If single communities flood a lot you could try out scaled sorting
Do you only browse /all or do you have subscriptions as well?
waltz
Should be ‘walz’ (I’m guessing you mean Governor Walz).
What ever event caused me to add that filter has probably already passed. Many of these are kind of outdated already.
With all that blocking, is there even anything left on your feed at all afterward?
4 out of 20 posts on my front page are currently blocked. I think the record so far is 17 out of 20 when there’s a major event going on in the news, for example when Charlie Kirk was shot.
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I subscribe to communities I’m interested, from time to time I browse all to find new stuff, and block some of them.
Also some alt accounts to emulate the multis from reddit.
And on Voyager I use color coded tags for users. I try not to block users, that’s just a mute button.
Thanks for the color-coded tags - I now realize just how little I’ve looked into Voyager’s settings. Though this might interfere with my “Wait, is this THAT guy again?” game that I play.
You can start playing “was my first impression right?”, then add or remove exclamation marks at the end of the tag.
Block any community that is either sports, local area, news, crypto, AI, music, and us politics.
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.
I have All because I like the diversity. But that means community, keyword, and user blocks are needed.
Obviously ML is blocked, quite a few NSFW communities, gender-centric communities, religion-centric communities, political ideology communities, fan art/anime communities… Basically if it’s not of interest, or of social contraversy, and loud, it gets blocked because of the types of people it attracts. This makes for a relatively toxic-free experience, few soapboxes, but still a big diversity of posts and topics come in.
Keywords go in and out when I’m fatigued by US politics or the same headlines about the same people over and over.
For users, I find it weird that many Lemmy users are obsessed with their enemies or the things they disagree with, so user blocks get dished out when I see people behaving that way too. Doesn’t matter what the topic is they’re “discussing”.
Nothing really. I just block idiots.
This! It works really well.
Who said that?
Personally i just block whatever crosses my feed that i do not ever want to interact with.
LOTS of weird porn, trans or women communities i have nothing to contribute to, the occasional user i personally don’t vibe with. Certain political communities, most america centric news communities, there is tons of things tto potentially not be interested in / annoyed with.
I only view by subscribed > new
The only posts I have to downvote are video links without text synopses.
Seriously - if you run a video community you really need to have and enforce a rule that gives, at the bare minimum, a brief description of what the video is.
I ain’t clicking on random YouTube links
I’m with you on the videos without descriptions. Pretty useless.
