I found that things became much more pleasant on here when I blocked hexbear. I recently blocked lemmy.ml as well, but I may reverse that if I find that I’m missing too much good content.
I’m open to other ideas on how to mostly avoid people who love conflict or argue in bad faith.
Communities: Sports, places that are nowhere close to me or of interest, porn that is not for me, and games I don’t have any interest in.
Instances: Lemmygrad and hexbear
People: Not many. Spammers and low effort trolls mostly, and the occasional vatnik.
Pretty much this. Plus the dozens of cute anime girl communities and anything furry.
Yiff, yiff, yiff - I mean yep, yep, yep!