Lemmy for me is all Linux, politics, boobs, anime and sports. I’m a straight woman who hates sports and anime, has a surface interest in Linux but doesn’t wish to debate about it, and likes to be knowledgeable about both world and US politics but hates the anger. I’m really debating if Lemmy is for me, but I won’t go back to reddit and I need someplace to browse when the insomnia strikes.
I started blocking like a madman and my experience improved considerably
How do you do that? I cant figure it out. If i see one nore fuck cars post in gonna lose my shit
On the basic mobile website, you go to the sub… community you want to block or even just the comments for a post, expand the side bar button at the top, then hit Block Community.
For example, on this post, I go into these comments, hit Sidebar at the top of the comments, then block community.
This is the way.
I just do what I did with reddit and only browse all whenever I get REALLY bored.
Sorry for this, feel free to block all of the communities related to the topics. That should allow smaller ones to come to your feed.
Pictures, food, movies communities are rising, there is hope
It’s still growing so it’ll get better! I hope
Much to my dismay I have yet to see a single boob on Lemmy
I’m pretty similar to you. Not much interest in technology, I already do it so often during my day-to-day that any more turns me over my breaking point. The main communities I am subscribed to are either picture-related or food-related, hope you can find what you enjoy!
9/10s of mine is food and cute animals.
tbh I browser All or Local really rarely, I am mostly in my subscribed communities and really like Lemmy
You’ll find your niche here I bet… Give it time
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!politics wants civil discussion and not anger, but it’s hard to encourage that.
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I too left reddit, and lemmy so far works for going to sleep. It’s a different flavor but it’s still great for helping me drift off… Zzzzz…
I know what you mean. I’ve been struggling myself. On top of kind of being unable to relate, I’m not tech savvy and with a demanding toddler on me I just don’t find the time or energy to figure out how to even search for the right communities. I’m trying, but at 2 am when I have 15 minutes for myself and this app asks me what instance I want to view something in and doesn’t let me comment something somewhere and then I try to check whether Abrathatfits is already on lemmy I get a million (non bra related) search results - it’s just echausting for I don’t know what. I miss the memes (I don’t get 80% of the memes here since most are some jokes about tech or coding), and I miss the girly subs. I miss makeup addiction ffs and beyond the bump, and moldly interesting. I like politics in general but somehow the communities here don’t have any news that I care about. The ukraine communities are also rather dead here, that was an important one since I have family on both sides of the border. Maybe I should put more effort into it, more energy, more search les and adjustments, but it might just be that lemmy, while a great concept, is just not for me. Maybe there just aren’t the communities I need. I also doubt I will go back to reddit but damn, I am lost. Maybe I should. Especially when it comes to Ukraine I am really debating whether supporting a futile protest of a social media website to make a point is really worth being less informed and connected. Sorry for the long rant tho.
I am really enjoying the statement on being a straight woman, but unlike the rest of your statements you didn’t elaborate on boobs.
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More like hide all the furry boards
I literally never seen anything Furry on Lemmy, but it took me 2 minutes on Bkuesky to find not one but two prolific Bara artists.
I’ve seen community names on a list that were furry stuff, but so far have not come across any.
That shit is so fucked. At least the sexual stuff. But even the look of more innocent kinds puts me off, personally. I’m ok with that kind existing, but I don’t wanna see it.
Yes! in my streaming service too please
This with the power of a thousand suns
Shh… you can block communities. (You habe to see them at least once though :/)
There’s like 800 different furry communities, all for extremely specific fetishes.
Still, hiding all of them automatically would be nice
Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? “The governor of Arkansas-” I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me
This makes more sense than sports filter lol Fuck that USA politics ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
or us politics
There is surprisingly less of this on the Fediverse. On Reddit I had a massive blocklist with words like Biden, Trump, DeSantos, AOC etc. and I still wasn’t saved from all of the bullshit over in the land of the free.
I rarely see all of that crap here and it’s honestly very refreshing.
When i browse all every other post i get is politics or musk
Give us an option to block memes as well then, my biggest issue with Lemmy is the tsunami of terrible and practically unavoidable memes. I don’t ever see sports content, rarely see NSFW content, there is a fair amount of Elon spam, but really the worst are the memes. Even doing my best to hide the meme communities they are unavoidable.
If you’re not here for memes or porn then why?!
/s
The only two communities I blocked were just a barrage of memes straight to the frontpage.
If we hid meme communities, I’m not sure there would be any posts left.
Where is the “hide all americans” button?
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
Why do they say it like that? 😂. Don’t they listen to what they are saying?
Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
Using America in your argument has nullified it in my mind🤣
the argument is about america??
But at this point I couldn’t care less 😂
You mentioned the founding fathers I assumed that was the american ones
Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
I’ve taken to staying away from “all” just to try and isolate myself from the madness that those people are involved in. What an absolute acid trip of a country.
Let me know when you find it lol
“Did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
Thing about Arsenal is they always try’n walk it in.
The thing about Arsenal is that they always try and walk it in.
No, they’ve gone plaid.
This is the only sports-related comment thread that is acceptable.
Is Lemmy just not showing me sports content? I don’t like sports at all and this would bother me if it was constant, but I only see the occasional sports post.
It was pretty bad for me until I got most of them filtered. There’s a com for every single team, every single league, and more.
Not quite as prolific as, say, Linux or porn. But there’s a lot of them.
Weird. I totally am not seeing them.
I’m not seeing them either and I love sports
Yeah. I think some get ahead of themselves, lemmy isn’t big enough enough to support the splintering.
“Hide all American news” would basically fix 50% of the issues.
I can’t count how many NFL and NHLs I blocked. Right with you on this.
Yeah. One per sport all team. There’s a lot of sport ball teams.
I really wish there could be tags and sub-tags.
Tag examples:
- Politics
- Sport
- Anime
- News
- AI
Sub-tag examples:
- US
- Europe
- Africa
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- F1
Some sort of curated list by Lemmy developers that might change over time depending on user demand.
Then client apps can fetch such list from any server and allow you to apply such filter.
Imagine being able to block whole category of sports? Anime? News? Whatever people want/don’t want.
I think this is the only good thing Tildes has with tags, tags can work as sub-comunities inside a sublemmy.
I would like the platform itself to support this, as I often use the website.
That’s why he said Lemmy developers, not instance developers.
That baseball guy and all his bots needs to be blocked by default…
Honestly, I say we ditch NSFW as a on/off switch and go with a mandatory tagging system. We can clarify NSFW into content warning tags, e.g.
CW - Gore,CW - Death,CW - Breast,CW - Genitalia.Users could then set their own preferences on which tags would cause a post to be masked or simply hidden.
But why stop there? Tags could be very useful in our federated environment to help communities mesh better with each other.
Communities could be able to specify a list of mandatory tags, i.e. the Swallow community could require posts specify
African SwalloworEuropean Swallow(or both or neither). Communities could also make some tags implied, so the AfricanSwallow community might just imply that posts areAfrician Swallowunless user changes it.Underneath the hood, all tags are just treated as part of the post text, so the backend performance impact will be minimal. However moderation tools would be able to consider tags when deciding how to handle a post.
Of course, the server/instance owner can then simply make a policy of what kinds of content warnings they require, and communities can then build other tags on that to meet their community needs.
Swallow community
…maybe keep an nsfw tag on that one. just in case
How would you tag your Dickcissel and your Great Tit going after an Antarctic Shag and an Invisible Rail? Do we want our Flying Steamer Duck having fun with a Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler?
Also cocks. And chicks with cocks.
Gotta watch them sounding people too…
Yes but what is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
I’d love a way to block “all anime / hentai / manga” related topics and posts.
That stuff is everywhere, and invades everything. Like a cancer. Even communities which aren’t anime related. I’ll be subscribed to some community because I’m into the topic the community is based on - which has nothing to do with anime- and then some damn anime fan comes along and posts some weird/creepy “anime/hentai version of [topic]” and then it just spirals from there, and another community turns into another fucking anime community.
Believe it or not, not everyone on the internet is obsessed with Japanese style animation, and the associated (weird/creepy) sexualization of such drawn/animated characters.
What is most creepy about it is that all the “women” look like kids. They look like little girls with really big boobs. I don’t understand the appeal.
Exactly! That’s what bothers me about the “art” the most. Ew!
I’m the same, I routinely filter out anime stuff. Probably the most annoying thing is that I started playing FFXiV and now my in-line adverts are for gaccha anime crap and generally super cringe/bonk horny.
Since you’ve apparently seen so many, I would love for you to link me to a sports community that is actually active. Everything out there is completely dead, usually with one person reposting content from reddit or Twitter.
Be the change you want to see in the world…
