What is mental for me is that people browse the ALL feed and then complain about what it shows... I feel crazy only browsing my subbed communities all the time lol.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024
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How few interests do you have and how active are the communities? If I did just my subbed communities all the time it would be 2 day old politics and comedy subs with last post 2+ weeks ago.
I guess maybe you don't browse much or you've got a much more active set of core subs.
(Maybe some of that unavoidable anime and femboy content IDK)
Why do you want to browse stuff that you have zero interest in? I imagine it to be a massive waste of time.
I'd prefer to view only the communities I've subbed to and see that there is no new contributions than look at stuff I have no interest in because I can turn off Lemmy and do something else with my day.
How do you know what new things you have no interest in? I block the stuff I don't like, I sub what I definitely do like (and occasionally browse it), and the rest I am happy to watch pass by and give up- or downvotes accordingly.
This is like asking "why would you go to a new website when you already know what you like?" Or "why would you go to a new place to look for friends or dates when you know you like people at XXX place?".
Frankly, sorry, this perspective of "anything I haven't subbed I obviously don't like" is pretty fuckin stupid. Don't feel bad though, you aren't alone thinking it.
"Frankly, sorry, this perspective of "anything I haven't subbed I obviously don't like" is pretty fuckin stupid. Don't feel bad though, you aren't alone thinking it."
Likewise, I think it's really stupid to be looking at content you have zero interest in. And likewise, don't feel bad though, you aren't alone.
Thanks for the belittling tone of your statement there 😉. You just have a different point of view.
How can you waste so much time looking at content that you have zero interest in? Don't you have stuff to actually do in life, or are you one of these people that get bored because you've got nothing to do?
I'm a person that never gets bored. I always have something I want to do. I don't have time to be doing things that aren't necessary to survive and things I don't enjoy.
I know who I am, and what I like. My interests are quite broad and I know what I don't want to see. I prefer to white list my interests on Lemmy than black list the things I have zero interest in. Even thought my interests are quite broad, white listing is significantly shorter. In an infinite number of interests, my 1000 interests are significantly shorter than infinity-1000.
Edit: When I gain a new interest, which is usually a sub interest of another interest I have then I'll look for the community on Lemmy/Reddit/other forums.
When I first started Reddit many years ago I learnt that all is usually full of rage bait content. I avoid rage bait as much as possible. I guestimate that all on Lemmy is exactly the same since most Lemmy users were/are Reddit users.
Live your best life yo, and have fun doing you. It would be cool to be young and know everything again.
You don't engage with new communities, neat. I like to keep an eye open, because out of infinity - 1000, there are still infinite communities I MIGHT like. Or even infinite - 2000 I don't like too. Look at all the math I can do. Here's an emoji 😍. Shut up, dude. Tell all your friends how well you know yourself, your perspective is still fucking stupid.
Belittled because, here on the net, you are little. Just like everyone else.
Why are you so angry? Do you want to talk about it?
For a second I wasn't sure if I had posted this and just didn't remember it
Do yourself a favour and search for and block communities in these
Futa
Yiff
Hentai
Moe
Fur
Haven't seen any of that shit for a few days
I browse by All, and rarely see them anymore. I think my instance and community blocking strategy must be working.
This person curates their feed ⬆️
How can I achieve this?
You block instances, users, and communities you don't want in your feed.
And you subscribe to communities you'd like to check back on.
Anime and odd sexual fetish subs. And whatever this furry stuff is
I miss the 2000’s, when people were a little bit ashamed to admit they like anime. Now like half the people on the internet literally have anime profile pictures. It’s weird as fuck.
It wouldn’t even annoy me so bad if I didn’t constantly get targeted for anime related advertising. I can’t stand anime. Why does my algorithm think I want anime things? I will never buy a big titted anime figurine, and just seeing one makes me curse the gods for giving me sight.
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I don't see any anime subs by default just browsing the lemmy.world all page when sorted by hot, active, scaled, or new. So what exactly are you doing, and where do I sign up?
Seriously, I would love to see anime communities, but I don't think I've ever seen one... Lemmy for me seems to be 99% US politics, 0.99% LLM bros trying to sell their scams, 0.01% other posts, of which about 0.01% might actually be interesting... 😐
Futa
Yiff
Hentai
Moe
Fur
Have fun with searches
Eh, I'm more into tentacles and whatnot.
Still, we were talking about seeing stuff by default, not by looking it up.
And the thing about Lemmy and having to look up stuff that you don't see by default is that once you find it it turns out to be the same dozen or so posts you found the last time you looked. And the previous one. And the one before.
In the most tragic cases you can see a user posting stuff for a week or two around the time of the Reddit API exodus, hoping to attract other lemmings interested in the same stuff so they'd post their own... and slowly losing hope until they stop. It's fucking sad.
Don't get me wrong, Lemmy is still far better than Reddit is now, and orders of magnitude more alive if you don't count the bots (Reddit is more alive in the sense that a decomposing corpse full of maggots is more full of life than the poor critter was before dying, except the maggots are bots, which aren't alive at all), but it's far from what Reddit was before it killed itself, let alone when when it was good.
Also, holy necromancy Batman... this thread was about a month old..!
Last 2 weeks I've had to block threads each day, so I finally went through and blocked them, was sharing with OP the word list to search to block and I saw that you were interested so there ya go lmao
I've had to block a lot of anime subs. It was a problem for a while, but now I hardly see any.
Yes, blocking something you don't want to see usually results in seeing fewer of that thing.
Not when that thing has dozens of communities for every little nuance a genre can have. For example:
Block the instance
Edit: I love anime but my response was for those who don't. If they want less then subscribe to the local ones and block the anime instances that aren't local
Damn, I created !dragonball@ani.social there, didn't know it would be so controversial
I love anime and I'm subscribed on there but if you look at the list if so many came from one instance then just block that instance from the app, I think there might be on the profile. Like:
Yes. My block list is YUGE.
I'm more concerned about the huge number of posts involving politics in my app.
I'm literally here to complain about politics and see anime shit.
Your anime is not unique enough to not just be posted in one mega anime community. That's easier to block. Probably has the same voice actors, too.
Tell that to
- !linux@lemmy.ml
- !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
- !archlinux@lemmy.ml
- !linux@programming.dev
- !linux@sopuli.xyz
- !linux4noobs@programming.dev
- !linux4noobs@lemmy.world
And the dozen other Linux communities there are
Try sports now..
Wait where are you seeing all the sports content? Any sport communities I browse have only a handful of regulars knocking about (don't get me wrong, I'm glad of them, but it's not quite the same as Reddit)
With sports it is more annoying because they tend to come in through bursts for very specific communities, like individual sports teams. Blocking each sports team community one at a time is like playing whack a mole.
It isn't that they are overwhelming the All - Hot feed all the time, but there are bursts where they do.
Just block the instance
Instances, plural. Hundreds of them. Hundreds of blocks.
What? There are other anime instances? Where?
I only know about ani.social, and I'm basically the biggest anime content poster on lemmy.
Oh no, that terrible anime subs and content. Quick everyone post more fully qualified !links to more of these groups so i can avoid them, there's only been a few in the thread so far
You can straight up just stalk my post history ;D
You pop up so often I'm surprised when your not around.
Yeah :D
It's a pity not everyone wants me around, but I'm not going anywhere, so complaints are quite pointless.
Don't let them get you down. I feel like everything I post has SOME downvotes. People called me mentally deranged because I made a post in the Fediverse community that what the fediverse needs overall is for celebrities to call the fediverse home, and bring their userbases with them.
You know how you might see a celebrity say "Follow me at @CelebrityName". Well right now, that username is universal. They want that same exact username on twitter, on youtube, on instagram. And I suggested that we need to have more of a profile system on the fediverse. So when you register MentalEdge on one fediverse platform, you're registering the name MentalEdge. Nobody else could have that. And sure, you might be MentalEdge@Lemmy.World, but if someone were to come to Lemmy, and knew who MentalEdge was, they'd just search @MentalEdge. Then the search would find you MentalEdge@Lemmy.World, and maybe you signed up to pixelfed, and it finds that too. Because you're the only MentalEdge.
People ignored the concept, and instead said "WE DON'T NEED CELEBRITIES HERE!!! AHHHH OTHER PEOPLE WHO AREN'T US ARE AWFUL!!!"
But, in kindergarten I had a rough first day of school. Kids made fun of me. And when I came home, my great aunt edna gave me advice that applied 36 years ago, and it applies today.
"FUCK EM! FUCK THE WHOLE LOT OF EM'! THEY DON'T KNOW SHIT! I BET THEY POOP THE BED EVERYNIGHT!"
Great advice then, great advice now.
Downvoted because this is true.
Y'all watch too many Japanese car-toons, and the apparent age of the female characters is fucking questionable, and every time someone brings it up yous start bleating about projecting to try and excuse it
Fucking weird, guys
Considering the art style has big heads and eyes, and omits age-indicating facial details to the point that in some stuff character straight up don't have noses, I always find it funny when people say adult anime characters look like 10-year-olds.
Based on what, the way real people look?