I don’t know if this was asked before and I don’t know how to look for that so I’m sorry if this is a repeat but, I keep seeing American football posts which I couldn’t care less about and I keep blocking the communities but they’re like thousands of millions of communities that never end. And no, I don’t wanna stick to the subscribed feed cause I wanna possibly find new communities or see posts from communities that I’m not subscribing to but are mildly interesting. I can’t think of good words to block either, without catching other communities I care about as well.
I know that people are claiming that this isn’t an issue, but I am seeing the same. I just started blocking those communities every time I see one. They are probably just sorting their feed differently and assuming that their experience is the same as everyone else’s. Blocking them (the bot, or the community) is really the only option.
I kept seeing European football posts. And car racing. I just block any of those communities when I see them. ADHD and autism memes too. There’s a lot of those for some reason.
Some of those memes are funny. For me it’s blocking furry porn, sports, the strange sissy hypno stuff and photos of dicks.
I don’t want to jynx myself, but come to think of it I haven’t seen a single dick pic since joining lemmy.
If you browse a typical instance on All>New and turn on NSFW, there are various communities specifically for that.
I see, when I’m on All I browse by Hot.
Also unix socks? Not to shame anyone but what? Why?
Isn’t that like a network protocol or something?
Car racing? Do you happen to remember the community and instance?
Reply here pls when you find it
No, sorry. My brain literally shuts off when people even begin to mention cars, sports, pretty women… Things that I care nothing about.
Lol understandable. No worries.
I feel you. They got these bots posting results of games or whatever to each and every sports team community. But it is not one bot doing that, no that would be too easy because you could just block that, each and every sports team community got its own specifically named bot posting the exact same things.
Really messes a lot with the all/new feed.
Weird, I never see any sports posts (and would be mildly interested in them.) What communities are you seeing them from and how are you browsing Lemmy?
idk they’re team specific Communities I think, and I’m from jerboa
What instance are you logged into and what are your Jerboa settings (are you filtering by Local/All, are you sorting by Hot?)
I tend to browse All>New and have also encountered this. Until the new Lemmy release has instance blocking, not much to do but block each community individually. There are also mobile clients that offer instance-level filtering. I’m sure someone finds it interesting (…. I guess) so I wouldn’t request defederation, but I certainly do not need a feed with 18 auto-posted threads about sports events.
Yeah I asked this question about foreign languages, and I think it was the same answer. I don’t speak or read German (as the most common example I’ve seen) so I have to keep blocking various instances that pop up in the newest feed like whack-a-mole. Similar to physical community-specific subs and sports; I just gotta keep blocking them one at a time
We could request that bot instance admins use a single user account vs a bunch of different users. That’s the problem with fanaticus - they have a bot for every different team - and I don’t see why that’s necessary. A single bot, like for the HN reposters, means someone can block all the posts with a single action, which would be nice.
Its been in for a month now. Why hasn’t it been released?
I am not super up on lemmy development, but I assume they’re working on the rest of the features for the release, or are busy thinking about communism.
I’ve managed to block every US baseball, football, and MLS team. I have also gotten rid of most of the Yiff trash (man, that shit creeps me the fuck out), and the ADHD and Traps.
It’s definitely not ideal. If I change devices, I will be in trouble unless this is stored server-side.
I have yiffit.com or whatever blocked but I hate that it stops me from seeing comments by users there. Just because I don’t want to see furry porn on my feed doesn’t mean I think people who do aren’t making worthwhile comments…
Blocking the handful (okay more like couple dozen) sports-related bots did the trick for me.
I don’t mind seeing posts I’m not interested when I scroll All, the annoying part is a wall of 20+ posts, which is mainly a problem when bots are mass-reposting content (sports score for example)
But if you’re really annoyed by seeing irrelevant content, there are two main options:
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Stop browsing All or Local and switch to your Frontpage, which is only the communities you’ve subscribed to. It’s still nice to browse All once in awhile to get turned onto new communities, but there are also certain communities you can subscribe to specifically for the purpose of seeing new and trending communities.
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This is more porn-related, but switch to an instance that is not federated with porn-instances. For example, I’m on lemm.ee, and I only rarely see moderately-NSFW content on All or Local.
My thing is when browsing all I want to see all, not just the most popular communities. The Hot/rising functions don’t seem to work that well at least on kbin.
So I blocked a lot of the communities that show up too much or the ones that will never have anything of interest to me. It’s better.
Fully agreed that Hot/rising is garbage right now. It seems to weight very recent posts with zero comments or upvotes equally with older posts that have robust discussion, so >80% of the content is the same as sorting by New.
Blocking a handful of something hasn’t worked for me. I must have blocked about 100 anime/furry porn sites and I still get a dozen every day in my ALL feed.
Even when I sort HOT, they still come up constantly with no comments and no upvotes.
Refer to my second point then.
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It took me a few days of browsing All and blocking anything sports, games and anime related and now it’s far far better. They still pop up sometimes, but I make it a war effort to block them. It is exhausting, but worth the time.
Just block them. I’ve blocked 20 more times the number of communities and users here than on reddit.
It’s not just sports, but alot of other topics that I’m just not interested in seeing somehow dominate my feed at times. Foreign language communities that I can’t even read pop up now and again. There’s so many small niche communities popping up that somehow pop up in the ‘Top’ view for whatever reason, then you have to go through and block each on individually. Is the Fediverse so sparsely populated that literally any posts that get any sort of attention suddenly shoot to the top? I sort by Top Six Hours most of the time. I try to block them when they come up, but I feel like Reddit never had this issue, even with all the extremely niche subreddits they have. It just seems like top/trending communities aren’t showing up correctly or some posts are showing up when they shouldn’t.
I keep seeing […] which I couldn’t care less about and I keep blocking the communities but they’re like thousands of millions of communities that never end. And no, I don’t wanna stick to the subscribed feed cause I wanna possibly find new communities or see posts from communities that I’m not subscribing to but are mildly interesting. I can’t think of good words to block either, without catching other communities I care about as well.
That’s the fediverse for ya. The politics are relentless and the sportsball isn’t that far behind. All you can do is keep blocking.
I just block them when I see sports communities. That mostly does it for me.
