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?
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.
I only subscribe to what I want to read. When I want to go community hunting I use all.
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.
I don’t deal with them, I just keep scrolling
I just block them. Nothing wrong with them—I’m just not interested in the topic.
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.
Sync has a filter option that is not the same as block.
Just keep scrolling
I only block them if they spam my feed (like memes and 196) or I’m strongly opposed to their content. Otherwise I just ignore them the old fashioned way.
I blocked 196 but left memes because it’s less obnoxious. The only other things I’ve been blocking are the various pics-of-specific-celebrity communities.
I switch back between subscribed and all with blocks on communities. A medium ground with all, including blocks, or ‘quietens’ as well as blocks would help.
Some communities are spammy and I don’t want them cluttering my feed constantly, but complete block seems excessive. An option to only see the best of their posts would be good. So perhaps they would be quietened to see a max number of top posts or have a ratio applied to their popularity in my feed.
Some communities I do want to block forever though. The problem is subscribed is very limited until the communities build out. All is too spammy and requires lots of curation. We need a middle ground.
My account is registered on feddit.de so there’s no porn. In a second step I block the few outliers. I don’t need the more extrem political subs or the fanatic fanboys. It’s not that many subs so simply blocking them is fine.
Like I deal with everything that doesn’t interest me- I ignore it. For instance, I hate everything anime and anime adjacent- so I don’t interact with it. If it’s a Len instance where they share the child porn loli stuff- I block it and If it’s so frequent that I can’t scroll for a minute or two without seeing it- I block it as well, but mostly, I just ignore it as to each their own.
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.
Same, op. I just block communities to curate the feed to how I want it.
I don’t seek them out.
