My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)

I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.

What about you?

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      6 months ago

      Nope, porn sport and anime bore me to tears… all blocked, plus a bunch of hyper-regional communities (sorry, Seattle, I’m in Europe, so the internal affairs of your city have little interest to me). I also had to block c/India because it kept getting pushed into my /all list.

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        6 months ago

        I actually really like the regional communities lol

        I know a lot about Bedfordshire now!

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, same about c/india. It kind of annoys me, because I would have been interested in some of their culture, food etc., but it was just a ton of posts and mostly about politics…

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        6 months ago

        Blocking regional communities is one thing, sure.

        I was partially joking, but anime, cartoons, sports, and some tasteful/ethical NSFW are all topics I’m hella interested in but don’t get much play here. There’s basically no boxing/MMA/basketball/football here.

        Each day i feel too normie for this place

        I’m not into the skinny models that most porn features and a lot of irl porn comes with a host of ethical issues,

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      6 months ago

      Porn: there’s so much of it on here. If I didn’t block most of it, it’d be half my feed

      Sports: I simply do not give a shit about the stats of some cricket game I didn’t know about

      Anime: I’m frankly just sick of the art style that so much of it shares. I don’t dislike anime as a rule but for a lot of shows, you could drop any character into another anime and they’d fit right in. And on top of that, I can’t stand the hyper sexualization of immature female characters that is so prevalent in the genre. I don’t think middle schoolers are hot so I don’t like when “sexy” characters act like one

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        Sure! Your reasons are valid and I’m not asking you to defend them.

        I certainly don’t like everything in any of those categories either. I’ve got slices I’m into, but yeah, the broad categories are def part of my interests.

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        6 months ago

        Interesting. Here on lemmy.ml, none of the porn shows up, because I guess, it’s blocked at the instance level. Unfortunately, I do still get horny anime posts every so often…

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          Lemmynsfw must not be federated with lemmy.ml and that’s where it’s concentrated so that makes sense. Horny anime posts are an instant block for me and I think I’ve taken care of most of them. I usually just see the -moe communities pop up now.