I block porn and anime. Sometimes users that post multiple times a day in languages I don't speak
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
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I've blocked tons of communities that are dedicated solely to posting voluptuous anime women, and one or two instances that are clearly dedicated to trolling and rage bait. Not much other than that I don't think. I frequently browse all, but if I'm not in the mood for politics and cynicism I just stick to my subscribed feed, which is nice to be able to do.
Those anime women communities are like a hydra, though. Block one and two more take its place
I'm raw dogging it, dump the whole feed into my gaping maw
Nothing. lemmy.world seems to be good at filtering spam instances out without hiding too much human content.
There's so little content, I can't imagine filtering it. I just browse All, sorted by Hot.
I sort by new
I browse my home feed with new, when it starts to run dry I switch to All, which does not happen very often. I filter mostly US politics.
I just block bots and ml
Blocking the tankie instances does most of the work for me.
I browse /all and block communities I'm not interested in.
I only block users who are spamming, trolling, or harassing. I don't really like blocking people. Everyone has a bad day sometimes and it shouldn't count against you in the long run. Of course, if you just come here to exploit people, I don't think you have anything to offer so I will block someone like that. I'm not here to spend money, so anyone who exists to extract money won't have anything to offer me.
I browse All pretty much exclusively. You can make it a decent feed, but it takes some doing...
At this point it might make more sense just to have a home feed
But then you can't find new communities
People share communities all the time and there are communities dedicated to discovering new communities like /c/newcommunities@lemmy.world or /c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
I find it easier to occasionally exclude a community I'm not interested in than have to hunt for ones I am
Which is a pretty good advertisement for the fediverse actually. I'd love to know how many of those thousand blocked communities are still active, but not enough to bother working it out.
Yeah a lot of those were communities that just appeared out of nowhere and spammed my All suddenly - which was likely just one person trying to get the ball rolling with a topic I'm not interested in. Whether that initial wave of content ended up attracting an active community vs just fizzling out, idk, but a good chunk of them are probably ghost communities now.
Another good chunk are redundant communities - like 5 or 6 if those blocks are some variant of "To my badass hero" which is the same poster that keeps making new communities for softcore black and white porn... I can only assume in effort to circumvent blocks like mine.
The number of real/active communities on my blocklist is probably closer to a couple hundred - the rest of just the result of content whack-a-mole to clean up short term messes.
Congratulations, you've just earned yourself a block from @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world.
Cocks banhammer
I've similarly blocked all the communities I'm not interested in - to the point that my All feed is basically the same as my Subscribed feed, just with more memes on it.
Still, it's not enough. I don't want to block entire news communities, for example, just because I'm not into certain stories.
I even tried blocking users until I basically nuked my whole feed. That's why I went back to just blocking the worst offenders and leaning harder on filtering out comments too.
I only view by subscribed > new
The only posts I have to downvote are video links without text synopses.
Seriously - if you run a video community you really need to have and enforce a rule that gives, at the bare minimum, a brief description of what the video is.
I ain’t clicking on random YouTube links
I'm with you on the videos without descriptions. Pretty useless.
Blocked nsfw instance. Blocked Nintendo, apple, genshin impact and the ml news and politics communities.
That preserves most of my sanity. I dont actually find Lemmy interactions to be bad. Even the worst Lemmy interactions feel like there is an actual complex being on the other end of the keyboard.
When read a reddit threads it doesnt feel like real sentient beings. Shoutout to the beyond all reason subreddit for inflicting psychic damage on me every time i read a thread. Its been over 6 months and I'm still triggered over the guy who played for two hours and decided the game has to many units.
Personally i just block whatever crosses my feed that i do not ever want to interact with.
LOTS of weird porn, trans or women communities i have nothing to contribute to, the occasional user i personally don't vibe with. Certain political communities, most america centric news communities, there is tons of things tto potentially not be interested in / annoyed with.
Block any community that is either sports, local area, news, crypto, AI, music, and us politics.
I have no filters or blocks if there’s anything I don’t like I scroll past and don’t interact.
Nothing really. I just block idiots.
This! It works really well.
Who said that?
Nothing, I just never browse All. Being subscribed to the right communities is enough.
I subscribe to communities I'm interested, from time to time I browse all to find new stuff, and block some of them.
Also some alt accounts to emulate the multis from reddit.
And on Voyager I use color coded tags for users. I try not to block users, that's just a mute button.
Thanks for the color-coded tags - I now realize just how little I’ve looked into Voyager’s settings. Though this might interfere with my “Wait, is this THAT guy again?” game that I play.
You can start playing "was my first impression right?", then add or remove exclamation marks at the end of the tag.
I have All because I like the diversity. But that means community, keyword, and user blocks are needed.
Obviously ML is blocked, quite a few NSFW communities, gender-centric communities, religion-centric communities, political ideology communities, fan art/anime communities... Basically if it's not of interest, or of social contraversy, and loud, it gets blocked because of the types of people it attracts. This makes for a relatively toxic-free experience, few soapboxes, but still a big diversity of posts and topics come in.
Keywords go in and out when I'm fatigued by US politics or the same headlines about the same people over and over.
For users, I find it weird that many Lemmy users are obsessed with their enemies or the things they disagree with, so user blocks get dished out when I see people behaving that way too. Doesn't matter what the topic is they're "discussing".
I use feeds on Piefed. Take a look at these feeds with less politics and less tech:
- (less memes): https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
- (memes/humor): https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent
back when I used lemmy instead of piefed, I read by "new / subscribed" and only subscribed to those communities.
I’m pretty good at mentally filtering out posts and comments I’m not interested in that come up on my curated home feed. Even in topics I dislike, there can be informative or entertaining discussions so I don’t block unless it’s obvious spam or a bad attempt at trolling.
I also don’t like the low effort comments such as “fuck (unpopular thing on Lemmy)” but then I realized that it doesn’t matter enough to engage with or be annoyed over.
I only show communities I'm subscribed to explicitly in my feed. I also block users like it's going out of fashion.
Anyone spamming things I don't care for in my feed, trolls, rage baters, or just people posting shit I have no desire to interact with our think about on the regular.
I'm using Lemmy mainly as an aggregator for memes, cat pictures, sci-fi, comics, and the likes, and like to be able to browse it on the bus or similar without worrying about what might show up.
If it's not for me, I'm most likely in the wrong community. If that's not the case I just block the poster. Nothing personal, it just doesn't jive with my desired experience for any number of reasons, so I just block it, ignore it, and move on.
Lemmy is for everyone, and I can't expect all of them to want the same out of it as me, so I can't, won't, and shouldn't do anything else about it.
I don't block much, but one thing I do is to use list view in the apps.
Having ten post on the phone screen at once makes it easier to scroll over the boring ones. I don't understand how anyone can be bothered with the default card views.
filters exist?
I'm personally using adblocker to hide posts with the following keywords:
xitter, united, ceo, c.e.o., exec, brian thompson, health exec, luigi, uhc, rednote, pets sunday, trump, elon, musk, nazi, fascis, israel, idf, ice, iceblock, palestin, gaza, project 2025, deport, kirsti, deepseek, rfk, it's monday, it's tuesday, it's wednesday, it's thursday, it's friday, it's saturday, it's sunday, hobbies wednesday, music monday, billionair, republican, far right, far-right, maga, doge, LGBT, pronoun, trans, gulf, christian right, nancy mace, abortion, immigrat, gop, migrant, x, measles, pedo, transgender, queer, bondi, capitalis, sandy, cybertruck, tesla, tsla, protest, hegseth, windows, executive dysfunction, waltz, detain, pope, usaid, netanyahu, palantir, curfew, Kristi, week-end, microsoft, fucklapd, epstein, ghislaine, slop, altman, nexus, kirk, genocide, zohran, kimmel, mar-a-lago, linkedin, crypto, comey, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, transpho, zionis, antifa, racis, Jake paul, us aid, guard, patrol, snap, amazon, google, openai, meta, ai, scraper, ads
I also have a similar list for the common phrases used in mean comments:
xitter, x-itter, muskrat, douchebag, chud, acab, guillotine, piece of shit, pedo, boot, leopard, bibi, fuck alex, fuck zuck, fuck musk, fuck trump, fuck spez, fuck elon, elonia, twat, pigboy, eat shit, dipshit, dumbass, fuckem, fucker, shitbag, fuck nestle, dumbfuck, class traitor, idiot, fuck off, fuck you, depose musk, fuck matt walsh, fuck america, shithead, assclown, pukebag, cunt, avocado toast, temporarily embarrassed billionaire, bootlick, elon, musk
You're filtering out kirk and my first thought was, "what does he have against Star Trek?"
Well, I do have Star Trek communities blocked too. That said, I don't block stuff because I have something against it per se - I'm usually just sick of seeing it flood my feed constantly.
I even block topics I'm genuinely into, like AI, because I know the comment sections will be a total shitshow and I don't want to tempt myself.
Do you only browse /all or do you have subscriptions as well?
My /all feed is basically the same as my /subscribed but with memes.
If single communities flood a lot you could try out scaled sorting
waltz
Should be 'walz' (I'm guessing you mean Governor Walz).
What ever event caused me to add that filter has probably already passed. Many of these are kind of outdated already.
That said, I realize I might be in the minority on this, so I’m curious what others are doing to preserve their sanity.
You're not alone in thinking that. I would not say it is unusable but it is indeed way too littered with, well, with certain type of content I'd rather not have to deal with.
- For me, a careful selection of the communities I follow combined with limiting my home feed to 'subscribed only' does the heavy lifting quite well. I find it really efficient.
- I do have a couple filtered keywords, a couple like in two names (both being names of certain people that use to make the headlines around the world).
- Then, on a day to day level, when I'm faced with anyone that is not trying to participate in a conversation but is enjoying making a fuss, trying to create drama or anyone being constantly rude, or turning any disagreement in a personal matter, I will not hesitate to block them.