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.
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At this point it might make more sense just to have a home feed
But then you can’t find new communities
People share communities all the time and there are communities dedicated to discovering new communities like /c/[email protected] or /c/[email protected]
I find it easier to occasionally exclude a community I’m not interested in than have to hunt for ones I am
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.
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Just browse the list of communities once in awhile. Pretty easy to do.
Congratulations, you’ve just earned yourself a block from @[email protected].
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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.
Block any community that is either sports, local area, news, crypto, AI, music, and us politics.
There’s so little content, I can’t imagine filtering it. I just browse All, sorted by Hot.
I sort by new
I browse my home feed with new, when it starts to run dry I switch to All, which does not happen very often. I filter mostly US politics.
If you sort by Scaled. Posts will be sorted by community size and smaller communities will not get drowned by larger ones.
Edit: added the missing ‘not’ word.
I don’t see now that’s desirable
It’s desirable if you want to browse diverse, niche and interesting communities without the bias of community size.
I see. I think you meant “smaller communities will [not] get drowned out” in your first comment. I tried it out and it does show more variety, thanks
Yes! I’m using a new keyboard app which can be a bit finicky.
Nothing really. I just block idiots.
This! It works really well.
Who said that?
Nothing, I just never browse All. Being subscribed to the right communities is enough.
Blocking the tankie instances does most of the work for me.
I’m raw dogging it, dump the whole feed into my gaping maw
I browse /all and block communities I’m not interested in.
I only block users who are spamming, trolling, or harassing. I don’t really like blocking people. Everyone has a bad day sometimes and it shouldn’t count against you in the long run. Of course, if you just come here to exploit people, I don’t think you have anything to offer so I will block someone like that. I’m not here to spend money, so anyone who exists to extract money won’t have anything to offer me.
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 to potentially not be interested in / annoyed with.
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
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.
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?
I only view by subscribed > new
The only posts I have to downvote are video links without text synopses.
I’m with you on the videos without descriptions. Pretty useless.
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
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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?
My /all feed is basically the same as my /subscribed but with memes.
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.
Oh yes, heating about Kirk got super annoying after the first post.
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.
I saw “United” and “Luigi” and was like dang, no one ever posts about that anymore.
I am on .world and filter nothing because there is nothing sketchy really…
I just block bots and ml
