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•5 months ago

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

    • @friend_of_satanEnglish
      4•5 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•5 months ago

        Now I want to know more about grobslafup