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?

  • @Pea666@feddit.nl
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    2710 months ago

    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.

    • clif
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      1210 months ago

      Same here.

      So. Much. Hentai. Don’t forget the furries too - almost as many furry communities as hentai.

      • @girl@lemm.ee
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        1710 months ago

        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

        • SmokeInFog
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          1110 months ago

          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

          • @girl@lemm.ee
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            610 months ago

            I like to browse all to find new communities, my subscription feed isn’t robust enough yet to fully support my browsing

        • clif
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          310 months ago

          Yes! I forgot about those but they’re also on the (auto block) list.

      • @Pea666@feddit.nl
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        210 months ago

        And the furry/hentai crossover communities too. I’m pretty sure those exist because it’s the internet.

  • @GravelPieceOfSword@lemmy.ca
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    1910 months ago

    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.

  • @MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    910 months ago

    I only subscribe to what I want to read. When I want to go community hunting I use all.

  • @anon6789@beehaw.org
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    510 months ago

    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.

  • Kalash
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    410 months ago

    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.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    310 months ago

    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.

    • @Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
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      110 months ago

      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.

      • Aa!
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        110 months ago

        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?

        • @Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
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          110 months ago

          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?

  • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    310 months ago

    I usually stick to subscribe and Search lemmyverse when I’m looking for new things or I use the new community community

  • spiritusmaximus
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    210 months ago

    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.