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.

    • Perspectivist@feddit.ukOP
      7·
      2 months 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.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

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

  • tehmics@lemmy.world
    182·
    2 months ago

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

  • whelk@retrolemmy.com
    9·
    2 months 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

    • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 months 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.

    • grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months 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?

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    8·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • ccunning@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      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

  • FG_3479@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Nothing. lemmy.world seems to be good at filtering spam instances out without hiding too much human content.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    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”.