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I'm fairly new here and I'd like to use it more, but, there are a variety of general categories of communities that I'd like to never see. So instead of blocking them 1 by 1 as they pop up I'd like to have the ability to say "Block all communities that are sports related" for instance.

I realize the alternative is to look only at the ones you subscribe to but then how do you discover other communities that were just created without flipping back to Show Me Everything?

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[โ€“] PriorProject@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imgur, for instance, lets me filter in and out loads of specific tags from my feed (also specific use posts).

It's relevant to note that Imgur doesn't have a communities/subreddits equivalent. Images are the rough equivalent of a post, and tags are the closest they get to communities. I'm quite certain that there are tags for both Art and Drawing, and following the Art tag doesn't mean that you won't miss out on posts that are tagged as a Drawing and not as Art. The result is really not that different than Lemmy, you still have to discover all the different tags you want to follow.

Not to be flippant about your tag examples, but those exact communities already exist (edit: ok, admittedly the search for art returns a bunch of unrelated junk):

Now, of course... those are not the only communities addressing those topics. There's retrogaming as a subset of games, there's photographyas a subset of art, etc. But as previously noted, that's true of tags as well.

A whitelist based subscription method DOES work, and is implicitly what everyone uses on very large community sites like reddit and also very large tag-based sites like Twitter/imgur. Of course you miss out on some stuff, but when you find something you're missing... you add it to your list. It's ok not to find every last post you care about and doing so is an impossibility.