Question to people who block communities, how many? What’s your criteria? I, uhhh, block a measly 586 communities.
My criteria is as follows:
- nuked nearly all meme ones
- nuked meta ones for instances outside of mine, as I find my ingerence unfair
- nuked meta ones for countries I’ve no past with and no interest in making future with
- nuked soft porn / porn ones from .world
- nuked duplicate communities from instances which block many instances, so I get most diversity of opinions since they crosspost anyway
- blocked AI art communities
- generally anything related to AI, crypto and other topics I don’t have any interest in
- blocking all/near-all image and video oriented communities, because I’m here for engagement, not browsing images and most definitely not for videos
I’m very pro curating my own experience, as you may see. It’s quite slow, but at least I seldom get things I don’t want to check out, apart from some posts from technology.
I blocked a ton of non-english communities because my app doesn’t let you block instances. Also like 4 different hackernews repost bot communities because I want to read that on HN.
I wish there was a better way to get English only
The new Lemmy version will allow instance blocking. I personally fear using it, because I fear it may nuke the users even when they speak English. I also wish I was less lazy and just used a translator, but, alas, I’m lazy.
Hopefully the instance block feature let you choose between blocking only the posts or block both the posts and comments from that instance.
Or just communities. IDK how they’ll implement it, but I cannot imagine any use for myself where I don’t risk losing good content, so I’ll just keep selective blocking.