Key to enjoying the fediverse is blocking the fuck out of every comm you dont want to see on your feed. I have lots of stuff blocked, some keywords and users as well. I recommended Voyager as a client, it has various features in that regard.
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anything to do with promoting violence against minorities. that was something reddit defended as "freedom of speech"
Controversial, but fauxbait. It means "fake jailbait". Jailbait, of course, refers to lewd pictures of underage girls. So fauxbait is women who are of the age of majority, but strive to look as young as possible. They shave and wax, they don't eat as much as they should, and they're generally short to boot, so it looks like you're looking at a middle school kid, but it's really someone who can drink at the bar in America (21+).
Especially since Lemmy is so big on exposing the people in the Trump-Epstein files who are trafficking and abusing young women and girls, I don't want to see people posting fauxbait. It makes the whole fediverse look bad. Like we don't care about the girls, we only wanna take down the billionaires, and we only pretend to care about their extracurricular activities because it's ethical leverage.
I guess if you're 17-20, these girls are fine to you, but I'm pushing 50 and have nieces and nephews who are older than that. I like seeing grown women as much as the next guy, but if my first thought is, "she needs to put something on," she's probably too young (or is trying to look that way) and that's something I don't wanna see.
I think this one is very pertinent, I don't see a lot of fauxbait here but I get frustrated at the Anime when some of it skirts with similar issues. I know its a cartoon but it still perpetuates it, and it seems acceptable to portray sexualised youth because ya know it's just cartoon culture (yeh its not). The normalisation in so many areas is horrible to see.
Any of the MGTOW/redpill/incel communities, as well as the communities posing as self improvement ones while feeding their new members directly into the redpill/incel pipeline.
I would propose that someone just make a conservative instance if they feel motivated enough to do so and then other instances can defederate according to what they feel is necessary.
Fuck no, I DO wanna see the Lemmy flavor of AM I THE ASSHOLE!
We're all a bunch of older tech guys who regret how pro tech we were in the 00s or younger zoomers tryna "detox" from classic social media... or russian bots and creepy eastern europeans trying to convince be Black Arch should be my new daily driver. I WANT to see how you're the asshole there!
Like my god, imagine it. Imagine the kinds of things we'd see. Like
"Am I (52m) the asshole for telling my wife (59f) she can't use iPhone and telling her to use a dumbphone?"
Or some shit like
"Am I (20m) the asshole for telling my friends I'm not gonna make a tiktok account?"
my god, this would be glorious! I want it, I NEED IT, bro! I fucking NEED to see this shit!
I liked seeing AITA posts on bestofredditupdates. we can't have that without first having an AITA comm. So i support the creation of an AITA community
I love the twist!
I wish people would limit US politics to comms designated for that, rather than forcing the rest of us to wade through that filth looking for world news. It's already all over every other news source.
Keyword filters work pretty well for this. I have keyword filters for Trump, Musk, Boebert, RFK, and I couldn't give a flying fuck about if Mitch McConnell is dead or not.
Lemmy is my only news source LOL
I don’t care because I can just block the community.
I use voyager webapp and blocking a community takes 3 seconds:
- you are in the „All“-tab
- you see a community you want to never see again
- you don’t have to enter the post or community, simply press and hold the community
- tap „block community“
This is the way. Everybody has different interests, that is what "subscribed" is for. I have no interest in Anime, Sports and Porn, but do I think people with those interests shouldn't be here? No.
The best thing about Reddit is that it lets you mute any community you don't like, and you can even block notifications and your timeline from giving you recommendations or suggestions altogether. So honestly, with all these features, Idk how anyone could still have a problem with certain communities existing!
I don't remember reddit having these features actually
Looking and other replies, I don't agree that this post has to have to do with technical solutions to what we don't want to see here. Obviously we can block what we don't want to see, so that's not even a question I find engaging. Instead, I'll make my response about what communities used to annoy me over at Reddit and why.
- Grooming subs, subs that generate and/or distribute CSAM, ban evasion subs (hopefully I don't need to give reasons for this one. If you want reasons, ask).
- White supremacist subs, because I'm leftist and I hate to see the otherization and demonization of marginalized people that they foster.
- Big tech offshoots like r/TikTokCringe because I went to Reddit to get away from them before it went shit, news subs like r/news because if I want watch or read the news I go to my own sources, braindead slop like r/LivestreamFail because they're already available over at Meta's toilets and TikTok if I wanted to have anything to do with them.
Asking what people don't want serves no function since you have no way to prevent it anyhow, it only serves to give trolls inspiration.
I thought that at first but the truth is stuff is starting to migrate over and is appearing in communities such as this one or news etc. I would rather it was added but added in the right place. Then it gives the individual control to block.
I don't think it can be stopped and conversations and management are better thought of in advance.
I think my title could be less baity.
The other aspect you have to consider in the fedi vs typical sites is instances. It's entirely possible to have the same community name in several instances and the flavor of them be wildly different depending on the instance culture and mods.
Sports communities.
I hate how many pop up post 3 things a day for a month then disappear. Bloats the hell out of my block list.
It's because someone thinks "My team can have a community here!" And they try, they post stuff and try to get the fans together to talk about the team and sport they love.
But if there's minimal engagement, they eventually give up.
The +200 of them that I have blocked.
Any of that maggat shit