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Rick and Morty com. No explanation needed.

All the anime, furries, sports, non-English, news, and politics.

Mostly just sports communities. They tend to post a lot, and I just don't really care about sports outside of Motorsport. If Arsenal has some insane game, or gets a great player signed, I'll hear about it at work sooner or later, either from coworkers or a customer. I would say the only big sport that doesn't apply to between those played in North America and Europe is probably cricket, cause nobody has time for it. Then again, haven't seen a single cricket post, either.

I can stay current on what's going on with the NFL, NBA, MLB, Premier League, rugby and even hurling, just by showing up to work, so there's no real benefit to seeing it here, too.

Also, AI communities get blocked pretty much as soon as they pop up in my feed. The novelty of "Hah, that's crazy that a computer made this image" has long since worn off, and I have no interest in seeing the umpteenth iteration of some AI take on art or photography.

I don't have the option ticked to show nsfw content, and people have generally been good about tagging such content, so I haven't had to block anything there.

*meme*

Just checked and it's a whole bunch of nsfw ones (I don't block all nsfw, but there are a lot of weird communities in that category that I don't need to see), a bunch of German ones because they were taking over the feed at one point, and theonion (which I don't really find funny anymore)

Have LꝏꝏꝏTs communities blocked , but noteworthy types :

• Most (meme|shitpost|news) communities . Oversaturation from seemingly homogenous threadiverse userbase
  • (Meme|shitpost) content dœsn't lend itself well to conversations (which's what am here for) IMO . If I wanted those I'd just browse tumblr oar some thing
  • Prefer getting my news elsewhere
• "(Cringe|Trashy)"-adjacent communities . Thankfully not many exist
• All (.*)(girl|babe)s NSFW communities , don't like seeing photorealistic imgs of conventionally attractive women

As far's instances , only one can remember 🏧's hilariouschaos bcus TERF community on there I think

Some foreign language communities don't seem to have their language marked so they still show up despite my language settings, so I blocked them to make things easier.

I browse mostly by All/Everything, and it's about an 70/20/10 split of non-English communities, sports communities, and anime communities respectively.

The non-English communities are typically on non-English local instances (feddit.org, feddit.nl, jlai.lu, etc), but I don't want to block those instances entirely because their users will still participate in other communities in English and it's not their fault that I just don't speak the language.

The sports communities are just because I don't typically care for that type of content. There are only a couple of sports I actively follow, and within those sports I don't need to see communities dedicated to each and every specific team, so I just block to filter the ones I have no interest in.

As for the anime, I actually do love anime, but a lot of them are communities for specific series I'm not into (which, if I'm being frank, are almost all just utter shit-tier waifu bait material), and others are very creepy "X"-moe communities which just make me feel gross when they turn up (and for those, blocking a single user was enough to get rid of 99% of that).

Because you get it back in the form of services and perks.

None yet! Are there any I should be wary of?

Mostly murican politics, politics memes, trump/musk stuff (it's like playing whac-a-mole), some anime and furry stuff.

Nothing. I go through my feed raw and unfiltered .ml, hexbear, and everything

None, although there's an ADHD sub that pops up often that is annoying and ive comsidered blocking it

None. I can handle other ideas and opinions just fine.