My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)

I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.

What about you?

    • @glimseOP
      2•8 months ago

      How would you describe your blocklist? Like what categories and what ratio between them?

      • @friend_of_satanEnglish
        4•8 months ago

        All things I’m not interested in that tend to fall into these categories:

        • hyperlocal geographies
        • sports
        • specific games
        • specific hobbies
        • programming languages and other technologies
        • porn
        • meme groups about subcultures I’m not a part of
        • shitposting
        • subs where it seems everything is cross posted to another sub
        • pretty much all music subs (i’m not here for music)
        • pretty much all video subs (i’m not here for videos)

        Edit: I’ve probably also blocked a handful of obscurely named subs that have no description or shit descriptions. Like a sub called grobslafup and the description is “everything related to grobslafup!” As if people know what the obscure thing is but don’t know that a sub titled after it is going to be related to it. 🙄

        • @glimseOP
          2•8 months ago

          Now I want to know more about grobslafup