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.
Why don’t you just subscribe to communities instead
Browse “All”, subscribe to interesting communities and to announcement of new communities, change default to Subscribed. That’s my configuration. It works nicely.
Sometimes I like to expand my horizon and browse “All” to find new communities, and blocking communities I have no interest in makes it easier to cut the noise.