I try to block communities discussing politics, cringe memes and Linux. I have about 50 blocked at the moment.
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I've blocked 40ish instances and hundreds of communities. Everything I find boring, not interesting or trying too hard.
I mostly use All as well. I have the following blocked:
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all the meme communities that pop up. It's just spammy posts
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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
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hexbear because... Hexbear
Meme communities are "content" in the worst sense of the word. No substance, just sludge
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.
Around 40 communities of irrelevant or annoying stuff.
Zero.
1500+
29 communities, mostly news. I'm here for memes, not links to articles.
Also a few atheism communities, because I'm not a fan of seeing posts bashing my religion from a community where the rules forbid me from saying anything in its defense.
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Only those with other languages that I do not understand and that somehow still show on my feed.
I don't know, but it's mostly memes and gay stuff.
30ish