Submitted 2 days ago by ogmios@sh.itjust.works to main@sh.itjust.works
So I’ve been attempting to block communities I don’t want to see on my main feed, but it’s pretty much impossible to do these days because the communities get mirrored on so many different instances that when you block one single community 5 times, there are still 3 more versions on different instances with the exact same crap. Block them? There’s still more!
This site is rapidly becoming completely useless, the way I’ve been using it before.
I’ve been using keyword blocking in ublock origins to clean up my all feed.
To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
For example:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)
Blocking specific words tends to have unintended consequences, blocking lots of things that haven’t even been considered.
I tend to stick to the Subscribed feed nowadays, with !communitypromo@lemmy.ca to see new or reactivated communities
Right, except pretty much the only thing I actually like about social media is using it to explore previously undiscovered things. Sticking exclusively to a few subscribed communities has no appeal at all to me.
Then the only option is probably to block all the communities you dislike
Alternatively, you can ask on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca what communities people have discovered recently (I think I’ll just make that post now)
Devs could add a “annoyingcommunity@*” filter. Shouldn’t be hard.
I’m not sure what you mean. It takes some effort but yes it definitely works. I’ve probably blocked 50 communities, “mirrors” or whatever, and I don’t see them anymore. 196 is the only one I had to block repeatedly due to “mirroring”.
I’m still new to Lemmy, but I’m not understanding the point of a community mirroring on different instances? If you’re on one instance, like sh.itjust.works, I thought it’d be discoverable on all the other Lemmy instances. I would never see a point in creating multiple instances of the same community if one of mine were discoverable by All.
Sometimes it’s just historical
!android@lemdro.id and !android@lemmy.world have been coexisting for years.
I’ve reached out to the mods of the LW one a few times, they were not interested in consolidating.
Well, if you block one instance itself in entirety, you can still access some of the communities on other instances, so there is a fairly useful purpose there for some people.
To get around people blocking them.
People block communities because the mods will shadowban them from the entire instance.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Keep at it, if curating All is what you want. That’s how I use this site too, and so far I’ve blocked over 900 communities - it has made All SO MUCH better.
You’ll burn through the redundant communities.
Just don’t try to do it all in one go - hit a few on each scroll and it’ll add up without being a very noticeable effort.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
I wish there were giant lists of related communities and an easy way to import them as blocks. Want to block all sports team communities? Here are all 1,000 of them. All the anime communities? Here are all 90,000,000 of them.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Community tags would enable that. Vice versa, it’d make those kinds of groupings easy to find and subscribe to for those interested.
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I wish my Internet was fast enough to block that many communities.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Internet speed shouldn’t make that big a difference in a site like Lemmy. If you’re on mobile, consider trying an app (or a different app if you’re already using one). If PC, maybe a different browser? I use Firefox, at about 50 mbps according to www.speedtest.net - lemmy loads up nearly instantly.
Another option is to use filters instead of blocks. I don’t know of a way to do it on PC, but many mobile apps support filters. You’ll have to find the right balance of being broad enough to zap all the redundant communities, but specific enough to not zap the unrelated ones that you might be interested in seeing. IMO that’s more effort than just blocking, but if internet speed is a barrier, that would make for a good plan B.