So, how do you deal with communities that don’t interest you? I personally block them, because I don’t like them popping up on my All feed, but at the same time I don’t want to switch to Subscribed because a new interesting community might pop up.
What’s your strategy?
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I just block communities that don’t 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 I’m 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 isn’t 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. I’m pretty sure those exist because it’s 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.
I don’t deal with them, I 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 them—I’m just not interested in the topic.
Just keep scrolling
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 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.
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.
Like I deal with everything that doesn’t interest me- I ignore it. For instance, I hate everything anime and anime adjacent- so I don’t interact with it. If it’s a Len instance where they share the child porn loli stuff- I block it and If it’s so frequent that I can’t 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 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?
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 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.
Same, op. I just block communities to curate the feed to how I want it.
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.