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.
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A lot, I've blocked all political, non-english, and anime communities that show up
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.
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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.
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?
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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.
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.
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Wait, you're blocking porn, sports, and anime?
Those are the fun parts...
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
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I too browse like you and have blocked too much communities to keep track of .
Over a thousand, for sure? I hate memes. I'm just scrolling light conversations. No deep politics or debates. No depressing news, anime, etc
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I also browse exclusively all. I only bother blocking the non-English and porn communities. Looks like that's 315, for me.
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Got 20 communities blocked and coincidentally 20 users blocked 🙃
Zero.
1500+
Around 40 communities of irrelevant or annoying stuff.