I just stick to subscribed usually
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I just block communities that donβt interest me (eg. all hentai).
I tend to browse Subscribed but sometimes veer into All to find new stuff that might interest me.
Same here.
So. Much. Hentai. Don't forget the furries too - almost as many furry communities as hentai.
Same with all the weird female celebrity worship porn communities, there are so many and Iβm so weirded out by people jerking off to normal pictures of these women simply existing
Maybe it's just a carryover from my time in reddit where I never ever chose to look at /r/all but y'all are making me glad I stick to just my subscribed feed
I like to browse all to find new communities, my subscription feed isnβt robust enough yet to fully support my browsing
Yes! I forgot about those but they're also on the (auto block) list.
The guys in those communities probably get a hard-on when the female cashier at the grocery store tells them to have a nice day
And the furry/hentai crossover communities too. Iβm pretty sure those exist because itβs the internet.
I have a massive subscribe list, and I usually just read subscriptions. I'll occasionally (maybe once it twice a week) read all, and if I notice interesting communities: subscribe to them too.
Just keep scrolling
I only subscribe to what I want to read. When I want to go community hunting I use all.
I just block them. Nothing wrong with themβIβm just not interested in the topic.
I don't deal with them, I just keep scrolling
I don't block too many things, because there can occasionally be news related to a topic I have no interest in that is still interesting. Like I have no interest in sports, but if there's something big like a scandal or arrest or some great play it mistakes, it's fun to catch that stuff.
The main things I outright block are anything NSFW that is definitely not for me, but mostly it's just about all of the meme communities. The amount of material those groups churn out is overwhelming and so many just seem so low effort. Things like programming humor generally don't bother me much, but most are just meh.
Most of them I just ignore. But a handful were very active and were topics I was 100% never gonna be interessted in, so I blocked them.
I only browse subscribed, but I also sub the muni discovery munis.
Sturgeon's Law: 90% of anything is crap. Better to skim from the top than wade up a from the bottom, I say.
I don't seek them out.
I use the trendingcommunities community to find new stuff. I rarely browse by all
Or just read the trending communities box at the top of the screen whenever you reload the page. I've added several new communities due to seeing something there.
I'm not sure how your experience has worked, but every time I clicked on one of the trending communities, it was always an empty feed.
Did they fix the algorithm, or have I just been incredibly unlucky?
That's really weird, every one I've clicked on went to a live community. I'm using the regular web page, if you're using an app maybe that is broken?
Sync has a filter option that is not the same as block.
I usually stick to subscribe and Search lemmyverse when I'm looking for new things or I use the new community community
I usually block because I like going through all because discovery of new communities but there is a lot of junk and spam and non interesting communities.
Like I deal with everything that doesnβt interest me- I ignore it. For instance, I hate everything anime and anime adjacent- so I donβt interact with it. If itβs a Len instance where they share the child porn loli stuff- I block it and If itβs so frequent that I canβt scroll for a minute or two without seeing it- I block it as well, but mostly, I just ignore it as to each their own.
I switch back between subscribed and all with blocks on communities. A medium ground with all, including blocks, or 'quietens' as well as blocks would help.
Some communities are spammy and I don't want them cluttering my feed constantly, but complete block seems excessive. An option to only see the best of their posts would be good. So perhaps they would be quietened to see a max number of top posts or have a ratio applied to their popularity in my feed.
Some communities I do want to block forever though. The problem is subscribed is very limited until the communities build out. All is too spammy and requires lots of curation. We need a middle ground.
My account is registered on feddit.de so there's no porn. In a second step I block the few outliers. I don't need the more extrem political subs or the fanatic fanboys. It's not that many subs so simply blocking them is fine.
I only block them if they spam my feed (like memes and 196) or I'm strongly opposed to their content. Otherwise I just ignore them the old fashioned way.
I blocked 196 but left memes because it's less obnoxious. The only other things I've been blocking are the various pics-of-specific-celebrity communities.
I come across many of them on here, esp. all the nude photos, some users are posting full nudes without any screen to conceal it unless I click to view it, so I block that user and block that community. Same goes for any post that is not in English, the user and community gets blocked as I have no need to see foreign language from that user or community ever again.
Did you set your preferred languages on your profile? I only set Undetermined, English and my mother tongue and I haven't seen a single post in a different language yet.
Same, op. I just block communities to curate the feed to how I want it.
I use Connect: i filter alot of undesired coms and instances so i could browse only interesting stuff. I filter alot that i get a runtime error, due to server overwhelmed with requests. Connect Dev said that the app will be optimized in a way that u could browse infinitly without compromising said filters or encountring such error. I feel my only bottleneck now is android ram, since browsing down the feed causes the phone to become sluggish and cause other background run apps to crash: probably considering getting a phone with extra ram (8gig with swap enabled? )
Not sure what phone you have, but I'd wait a little if that's the only reason for buying a new one, the optimizations will come.
i had a tab s2 with 28nm soc, 3gig lpddr3 ram running android 7 and the app quickly crashes, now i use an infinix (random asian brand, but way better than the rest) with a 12nm soc 4 gig of ram (4 doesnt seem enough) and 10w slow charging, the next phone i consider buying would run android 13 with 16 gig of ram (swap included, well, unlocked at least), also includes 33w fast charging and a 6nm soc, kinda finding myself reasons to upgrade, but as u said i am waiting this out too: i wanted to run the app on my pc but also i would have to upgrade my laptop ram so my os could support the android emulator without hiccups. i considered running my own instance for this sake but kinda extreme..lemmy is addictive not gonna lie
Just use sync, that was a ridiculous amount of text over an app that seems poorly optimized. I can't even believe you typed all that to be honest.
sync barely sends me notifications when there are ones. also i have to go through hoops to reach saved posts or comments. idk the menu isn't all that intuitive. Back in the day, there weren't only sync as a 3p client, so give other people some chance to prove themselves.
I block communities that routinely show up that I am not interested in seeing and use a monkey script to block instances of no value to me.