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I mostly use All as well. I have the following blocked:
all the meme communities that pop up. It's just spammy posts
all beehaw communities. Mostly because they were defederated with the largest lemmy communities, and I didn't want to talk to only a small subset of users. Not sure if they've changed anything since
hexbear because... Hexbear
Meme communities are "content" in the worst sense of the word. No substance, just sludge
1500+
I have my main feed as no NSFW. I might have half a dozen blocked.
My NSFW feed, probably has 40+ blocked.
I try to block communities discussing politics, cringe memes and Linux. I have about 50 blocked at the moment.
I've blocked 40ish instances and hundreds of communities. Everything I find boring, not interesting or trying too hard.
over 30. I personally prefer more serious discussion because I'm a dork. I'm not into most sports, jokes, video games or other whimsical stuff. I like some of that stuff IRL, but I consider the internet primarily of use for deeper discussion of topics that most people might not necessarily have an interest in. Like NASAs nuclear powered project Orion spacecraft in the 1960s.
Peoples eyes normally glaze over when I talk about that stuff offline, but there are billions online, and usually someone else finds that niche stuff as interesting as me.
It would be nice if you could select which topics interest you rather than having to block every community that does not.
Almost 200 pretty much exclusively from lemmynsfw before you could block a whole instance.
Once they added that, I've blocked very very few communities.
Same here, instance blocking was a nice add on that I wish we had earlier.
About 330. A crap ton of porn stuff, furry, bondage, etc. Several non-English communities. Operating system related stuff like Linux or android. A few “normal” communities that are on instances that don’t allow much dissent or contrary opinion.
Don't know how to check, but I am on mbin, not Lemmy.
Here? Not many, I sub to things I find interesting and browse my subscribed feed.
Reddit? Hundreds of subreddits if not more. If it's full of rage or engagement bait, intolerance or it's a community devoted to punching down I've probably blocked it.
I thought I blocked a lot, but seeing the posts here, I don't block nearly enough. I have about 100 communities and about 60 users blocked.
Im on kbin and it does not show a total but I block anything in languages I don't know or that seems to be all memes or sports related but certainly not anime or porn.
None, the insanity I sometimes encounter can be entertaining. I'll just log off if its too much.
I've blocked 10 or so instances and over 500 individual communities. Mostly by browsing /new and just killing anything I don't have the slightest interest in.
The instances I've blocked are leftist, furry, porn and anime related, plus one that's hosting sports communities exclusively.
Zero. Every time I've been on the verge of blocking a community (or instance, since kbin can do that) it winds up vanishing anyway.
