On version 0.19 you can block instances so that you don’t see any posts from that instance, instead of having to block communities one by one, you still see comments from users of that instance in other posts so it isn’t completely blocking the instance.
I 90 percent of the time browse my list of communities.
The other ten percent, I explore the All feed. It’s filled with so many communities that do not interest me.
I don’t think I will be blocking any instances for now as it helps in exploring new groups.
Same boat as you - most of my time is spent on subscribed, not /all
No need for me to block anything at the moment tbh…
hexbear
LemmyNSFW (nothing against it, but I’m not here for that)
Hexbear
These are the only two
same but + lemmygrad and threads
My instance already blocks those, otherwise I’d add those as well
None right now.
I block communities, not groups of users. I usually don’t have a problem with the actual users on an instance, I mostly just want to avoid porn (I don’t use lemmy for that, nothing wrong with it, though)
The only instance I would block is Threads but my instance admin is doing that already.
Foreign instances
I prefer to block residents and not entire neighbourhoods.
Many of these are self-selecting neighborhoods though, these are not the result of oppressive policies.
Personally I block political stuff they can do whatever they want, and I can be political sometimes, but personally I limit those things for my own good. Not to mention, political stuff here is way too US centric.
None. I use whitelists, not blacklists.
None. Probably.
I browse All and my instance isn’t that well connected, so maybe just the nsfw one so i don’t get a surprise boobies on my screen in public
Beehaw, actually. It’s a space for LGBTQ+++ people and I don’t need to be in their space. Edit: I also completely disagree with their philosophy, so it’s better for everyone if we keep ourselves separated.
Block’m all. My blocked list is so long it’s probably worth something. It’s way longer now since sync started showing porn.
“I won’t be happy until I stop seeing posts!”
I treat this place as reverse reddit. You can’t browse by subscribed because then you see 4 posts. But it’s hard to find the communities I might like. So I browse by all and block things I don’t want to see like foreign language, tentacle porn and Linux communities. That way I still see new communities I might like and get an endless scroll.
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Probably eventually I’ll block *grad and *hexbear. But some of the brain dead stuff they post is pretty funny.
