I'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" button
Lemmy for me is all Linux, politics, boobs, anime and sports. I'm a straight woman who hates sports and anime, has a surface interest in Linux but doesn't wish to debate about it, and likes to be knowledgeable about both world and US politics but hates the anger. I'm really debating if Lemmy is for me, but I won't go back to reddit and I need someplace to browse when the insomnia strikes.
I started blocking like a madman and my experience improved considerably
Same - my blocklist is gigantic now, but by combining that with subscriptions means that I can always choose between a very tightly curated list of stuff that interests me and nothing else (browsing subscribed) and a much bigger list of more random stuff that lets me discover new things but still doesn't have sports, cars, porn and other things in actively disinterested in (browsing all). I like this system a lot.
I just do what I did with reddit and only browse all whenever I get REALLY bored.
I know what you mean. I've been struggling myself. On top of kind of being unable to relate, I'm not tech savvy and with a demanding toddler on me I just don't find the time or energy to figure out how to even search for the right communities. I'm trying, but at 2 am when I have 15 minutes for myself and this app asks me what instance I want to view something in and doesn't let me comment something somewhere and then I try to check whether Abrathatfits is already on lemmy I get a million (non bra related) search results - it's just echausting for I don't know what. I miss the memes (I don't get 80% of the memes here since most are some jokes about tech or coding), and I miss the girly subs. I miss makeup addiction ffs and beyond the bump, and moldly interesting. I like politics in general but somehow the communities here don't have any news that I care about. The ukraine communities are also rather dead here, that was an important one since I have family on both sides of the border. Maybe I should put more effort into it, more energy, more search les and adjustments, but it might just be that lemmy, while a great concept, is just not for me. Maybe there just aren't the communities I need. I also doubt I will go back to reddit but damn, I am lost. Maybe I should. Especially when it comes to Ukraine I am really debating whether supporting a futile protest of a social media website to make a point is really worth being less informed and connected. Sorry for the long rant tho.
I'm somehow in a similar yet completely different boat from you. My feed under all is made up of like 5 communities - memes, lemmy memes, 196, linux memes, and programmer humor - with guest appearances by politics and technology. Regardless of what I set the filter on my feed to, I have yet to see a single piece of porn crop up; and I had to specifically find a search tool on my pc to find some communities to subscribe to like an r/foodporn equivalent just so I would at least have some stuff pop up on my phone with some more variety related to my interests.
This is probably all related to Lemmy being new and not knowing how to get the most out of the app I'm using (and that being new as well), but as of right now I'm largely using Lemmy the way I used to use Twitter X or something rather than how I used to use Reddit. As a time waster rather than a place where I got invested in the communities I interacted with.
Yeah you really have to block the annoying communities. I did have to do that on Reddit too as well though. And subscribe to some nice stuff so you have a good home feed to look at when All isn't working for you.
It's still growing so it'll get better! I hope
I'm pretty similar to you. Not much interest in technology, I already do it so often during my day-to-day that any more turns me over my breaking point. The main communities I am subscribed to are either picture-related or food-related, hope you can find what you enjoy!
tbh I browser All or Local really rarely, I am mostly in my subscribed communities and really like Lemmy
You'll find your niche here I bet... Give it time
Much to my dismay I have yet to see a single boob on Lemmy
9/10s of mine is food and cute animals.
I too left reddit, and lemmy so far works for going to sleep. It's a different flavor but it's still great for helping me drift off......... Zzzzz....
I wonder if playing around with filtering like top/local (on different instances)/subscribed would make this better. There's always the block community option, but that doesn't seem to work well to hide topics and would be a pain to keep on top of.
!politics wants civil discussion and not anger, but it's hard to encourage that.
More like hide all the furry boards
Shh… you can block communities. (You habe to see them at least once though :/)
There’s like 800 different furry communities, all for extremely specific fetishes.
Unfortunately I already know that gamer move
Still, hiding all of them automatically would be nice
Apparently you can block from within a comments section now. That's slightly safer than going to a community front page...
If they're all on the same instance, there app that can block entire instances.
use this comment as a handy shortcut
I literally never seen anything Furry on Lemmy, but it took me 2 minutes on Bkuesky to find not one but two prolific Bara artists.
I've seen community names on a list that were furry stuff, but so far have not come across any.
That shit is so fucked. At least the sexual stuff. But even the look of more innocent kinds puts me off, personally. I'm ok with that kind existing, but I don't wanna see it.
Yes! in my streaming service too please
This with the power of a thousand suns
Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? "The governor of Arkansas-" I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me
Same ! I live in india , but seems like i am wayyy to updated with us political news !ugh
To be fair, I am Lithuanian and a lot of stuff online goes like અને પછી તેઓ કેટલીક અસ્પષ્ટ ભાષા બોલવાનું શરૂ કરે છે
Well, since we're here, what are the big news where you live these days?
I got used to it, you just need to look at the US as a union of states like Europe, in which case Arkansas is about equivalent to Lithuania in population (although if you correct for the more states and less pop of the US you get Bulgaria or Finland if you use a ranked method) . The same could be done for China, India and Brazil.
It will when we stop being the Republic and get this Empire phase rolling.
A huge part of that is american-centric attitudes though. There is the politics sub on Lemmy.world and it's only for US politics. But it's not called "usonlypolitics" it's called "politics". Somehow they don't see the problem with that.
Also the mods are been absolutely bellends about it and are refusing to even acknowledge that that is a problem.
or us politics
There is surprisingly less of this on the Fediverse. On Reddit I had a massive blocklist with words like Biden, Trump, DeSantos, AOC etc. and I still wasn't saved from all of the bullshit over in the land of the free.
I rarely see all of that crap here and it's honestly very refreshing.
When i browse all every other post i get is politics or musk
Give us an option to block memes as well then, my biggest issue with Lemmy is the tsunami of terrible and practically unavoidable memes. I don't ever see sports content, rarely see NSFW content, there is a fair amount of Elon spam, but really the worst are the memes. Even doing my best to hide the meme communities they are unavoidable.
The main problem being that people have dug up the last 10 years of reddit memes to repost then on Lemmy.
If you're not here for memes or porn then why?!
/s
If we hid meme communities, I'm not sure there would be any posts left.
I don't mind memes but holy shit most of them are so bad and the volume is just too much.
The only two communities I blocked were just a barrage of memes straight to the frontpage.
Is Lemmy just not showing me sports content? I don't like sports at all and this would bother me if it was constant, but I only see the occasional sports post.
It was pretty bad for me until I got most of them filtered. There's a com for every single team, every single league, and more.
Not quite as prolific as, say, Linux or porn. But there's a lot of them.
Same — I don’t recall a single sports-related post — not even a meme. Maybe my instance already defederated from all the home servers of these communities (I think that’s how it works?).
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
Thing about Arsenal is they always try'n walk it in.
The thing about Arsenal is that they always try and walk it in.
This is the only sports-related comment thread that is acceptable.
No, they've gone plaid.
With Sync you can just pre-emptively filter based on keywords.
Nah, give me all them SuperbOwls.
Hentai is my favourite sport
that moment when you're just trying to hide nba posts but you accidentally hide your beloved 'cocknballtorture' communities 😔
I love Sync!
You little
Thanks, I never knew this is a thing.
I love not having to see any posts about Elon or Shitter. Sync is great.
It would be nice if every community had to pick a tag associated with it so that you can automatically filter out communities you have no interest in. E.g. Politics, news, memes, sports, tech, celebrities, TV/Movies, etc...
"Hide all American news" would basically fix 50% of the issues.
I really wish there could be tags and sub-tags.
Tag examples:
Sub-tag examples:
Some sort of curated list by Lemmy developers that might change over time depending on user demand.
Then client apps can fetch such list from any server and allow you to apply such filter.
Imagine being able to block whole category of sports? Anime? News? Whatever people want/don't want.
I think this is the only good thing Tildes has with tags, tags can work as sub-comunities inside a sublemmy.
This would be freaking awesome. Doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to add, but then again, I'm not a developer.
I'd love a fediverse-wide tagging system for various kinds of NSFW (porn, gore, death...), Sports (ideally also by discipline), Anime, Music (again, with genres), Gaming etc. to hand-pick what I absolutely don't want to see.
On some Mastodon clients you can block hashtags, and on Lemmy you can block communities, so we're already pretty close. To do more would require a lot of self-tagging of posts and not everyone will do that. Or it would require analytics and automatic tagging that may not be accurate and would theoretically be a privacy nightmare.
I can never rely on people to self-tag posts. But tagging communities would be much more manageable and helpful.
Maybe communities should come with default tags. That would make it a lot easier.
Do it like AO3 and enforce only about a dozen mandatory tags, and allow 'choose not to tag' tag if you don't want to tag, and you can choose to filter out the choose not to tag content..
And with apps we can filter text.
I don't think I've seen a single post about sports in Lemmy. Ever. Same with mastodon.
This is actually my biggest complaint about fedi services. I really love the baseball communities on Reddit (not on Twitter, though, that shit is toxic and often very homophobic), and there's just not a substitute elsewhere. I would love for baseball Lemmy to take off.
Just a general reminder for folks to generate content. Don't worry if it doesn't get a lot of attention yet, the fact that it's there will bring people in.
Honestly, I say we ditch NSFW as a on/off switch and go with a mandatory tagging system. We can clarify NSFW into content warning tags, e.g. CW - Gore, CW - Death, CW - Breast, CW - Genitalia.
Users could then set their own preferences on which tags would cause a post to be masked or simply hidden.
But why stop there? Tags could be very useful in our federated environment to help communities mesh better with each other.
Communities could be able to specify a list of mandatory tags, i.e. the Swallow community could require posts specify African Swallow or European Swallow (or both or neither). Communities could also make some tags implied, so the AfricanSwallow community might just imply that posts are Africian Swallow unless user changes it.
Underneath the hood, all tags are just treated as part of the post text, so the backend performance impact will be minimal. However moderation tools would be able to consider tags when deciding how to handle a post.
Of course, the server/instance owner can then simply make a policy of what kinds of content warnings they require, and communities can then build other tags on that to meet their community needs.
Yes but what is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
Here I am trying to find sports content.
I have yet to see active sports talk or news. But I'm also still figuring out this whole place.
Not going to happen anytime soon. Lemmy seems to have mostly drawn in early tech adopters, communists, Europeans who hate cars, and not-quite-pedophiles-but-close-enough-that-it-makes-me-concerned types.
I have yet to find any decent sports discussion here or anywhere in the fediverse.
Where is the "hide all americans" button?
Especially US politics. I couldn't care less.
Or as some Americans say, "I could care less"
It'd take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don't care enough to reduce my interest any further.
For any passing Americans who are thinking "what's the difference?", please take 3 minutes to find out.
Since you've apparently seen so many, I would love for you to link me to a sports community that is actually active. Everything out there is completely dead, usually with one person reposting content from reddit or Twitter.
Haha that is true.. I don't think I've ever seen a sports community while browsing 'All'.
Be the change you want to see in the world..
I’d love a way to block “all anime / hentai / manga” related topics and posts.
That stuff is everywhere, and invades everything. Like a cancer. Even communities which aren’t anime related. I’ll be subscribed to some community because I’m into the topic the community is based on - which has nothing to do with anime- and then some damn anime fan comes along and posts some weird/creepy “anime/hentai version of [topic]” and then it just spirals from there, and another community turns into another fucking anime community.
Believe it or not, not everyone on the internet is obsessed with Japanese style animation, and the associated (weird/creepy) sexualization of such drawn/animated characters.
What is most creepy about it is that all the "women" look like kids. They look like little girls with really big boobs. I don't understand the appeal.
Exactly! That’s what bothers me about the “art” the most. Ew!
I dont think I've literally ever seen that happen and I've been on the Internet since I could walk
I guess we have different interests / see different things on the internet. But it definitely happens. Often.
Almost every "comics" community I've joined on here has gone from people talking about actual published comics to people postin webcomics and their own works within days.
I'm the same, I routinely filter out anime stuff. Probably the most annoying thing is that I started playing FFXiV and now my in-line adverts are for gaccha anime crap and generally super cringe/bonk horny.
Yeh I'd love a "hide all elon/twitter/x" toggle.
As a person from a country that has near zero knowledge, awareness, and enthusiasm for American Football, I agree.
That baseball guy and all his bots needs to be blocked by default...
Or a "hide all political posts" button. As an American, I already hate the next few months as the next generation of liars run for President.
As a European, US politics is a good comedy
Comedy / Horror
You're sick of it? At least it's relevant to you.
What I'm sick of finding out is what various American ex news outlet anchors are doing. Who cares? Why are news anchors celebrities in the United States, it's weird.
Yeah I'll ask for the "Hide US" button
This makes me sad because politics are very important, but the media has turned it into such garbage that people have become indifferent.
Yes please holy fuck...
New generation? That would be a change
Omg, no way this would get past Showerthoughts nazi Mods on reddit.
Freeeddoom
Best opinion of the year. Also I would like that globally in all media as well
I'd like a simple and easy way to share blocklists. I spent my first few weeks on Lemmy blocking everything I didn't want to see, and now I rarely see things from outside my bubble...
On second thought maybe that's not such a good thing
exportable block/ban lists would actually be kind of cool
LASIM can back up your block list.
Hide all sports related content, no question!
She loves sports, she loves broccoli
I'd love to be able to block an entire instance. @lemmynsfw has a tonne of creepy-ass communities dedicated to posting pictures of female celebrities. There's never any sort of real content, just celebrities, sometimes in revealing clothes, and creepy titles like "beautiful" or "wow" or something like that.
Was just scrolling through the All feed and saw one for Sadie Sink. The entire thing gives me the willies, it's so gross.
Pretty sure it's mostly one user creating all those communities, too. Odd behavior.
There apps that can filter entire instances
If you are using android, connect for lemmy can block instances. It is much more peaceful. It even blocks the comments from the users. Although you can have them show as you come across them if you so choose.
This is horrible imo. I personally turned off NSFW since I don't really care about missing out on gore or the likes.
Except people use NSFW to mark spoilers as well
That is already possible, at least on the 2 apps I've used. Don't know about the browser version, but most apps have this option.
FYI: I use this usercript to block whole instances: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469297-block-lemmy-instances You need to edit line 17
Here adapted to work also with MLMYM (https://old.lemmy.world): https://pastebin.com/z0mShfDP
The real content doesn't appear in its feed when you're not logged in (due to being NSFW), so it misleadingly seems like the celebrity stuff is the only content there. You need to visit specific communities such as !gonewild@lemmynsfw.com.
A hide all onlyfans spam button. Regular porn is fine.
I would also like lemmy to be more smart about detecting languages, because individuals don't set the language and I'm constantly blocking communities from Austria or whatever simply because I can't read them, not because I hate Austria, it's delightful there
Unless it's NSFW sports content
Thats the best !!
We need cock fighting
Oh my fucking God yes. Every individual pro (nfl?) football team has a sub Every individual pro fifa (whatever) soccer team has a sub Every individual ice hockey team has a sub Polo. Formula 1. COLLEGE football teams! College football divisions! And whos going to the super bowl. Basketball. A sub for who's going to make it to the final 5. Volleyball. Whatever big volleyball bullshit is. And then relevant WOMENS versions for all of these (no extra hate, just extra numbers) Baseball! Baseball teams history!
Then there's leagues! Big10. The other big conference! Every coalition for Soccer. Conferences for Basketball. Divisions for hockey. Like holy shit! There's more categories for sports than nsfw!
EDIT: I need to add that I did the math in another comment: there are (For a US citizen) 32 NFL teams and 113 College football teams. 32 Fifa Soccer teams. 29 US Mens soccer clubs (plus 3 Canadian). 12 More Women’s Soccer teams -only one league. 10 Formula 1drivers/teams. 8 womens volleyball teams. 30 mens baseball teams (29US 1 Canada). 32 teams in the NHL. and lastly, 30 NBA teams. In total this is 331 “Teams” and is the bare minimum before consulting each city will post about a game, individual players with followings, and broad subs like "MLB" is different from "Orioles" and results in more subs needed to block
People have different tastes. The best way is to add a tag system (probably tags that are applied to entire communities)
For a while, random posts would just transform into baseball live post, with the comments for unrelated posts below. The post was on the METS win, and the comments were talking about how this would help liberate Bakhmut. It's fixed now, sadly.
Thank God for The METS. Slava Ukraini
What sports content? There isn't any. I'd rather be able to hide tech
i see multiple posts from the NFL, Hockey and football(soccer) communities daily on my all feed. I don't care about sports, I care about life and world views, as well as tech. Sports is really nothing more than showing off who can be the biggest asshole
I need one for politics
Where's the line drawn tho? So many things can be classified as politics
everything is political
Maybe filter by keyword. "Football","Baseball","Elon". Would need to filter by post title, text, community name and description.
Block the community and never see it again.
If past trends are to be believed, not only will every sport have its own community, but every team in said sport will have its own community
I don't want to have to systematically block 300-1000 different communities manually
This is the issue right here. Every enclave in Europe with 100 or more people seems to have at least 3 football clubs. I'm not hating on it, I just don't want it in my feed. It seems that interacting with sports content long enough to block it puts even more in my feed! Sheesh!
You only really need to block the popular ones. That's how I do it, had to add another two this week but it's not like I'm constantly finding new ones in my feed.
If you change your home feed to subscribed, then you don't have to block anything, you just have to not subscribe to those communities.
I just block the community
Sports, Religion and War, the 3 most wasteful activities humans have invented.
Not gonna lie, I love sports and don’t see any on my feed. In fact I’m subbed to a lot and even my subscribed tab is very sparse.
Yes. Please help us learn how to get more sports in our feed!
You are not alone.
Most of the sports-related communities seem to origin from the Fanaticus instance. Now if I could hide all posts from an instance right from Lemmy (without hiding comments from their users on posts outside of their instance) that would mostly solve the problem.
The idea of having community tags would be nice too, but we'd have to settle down on a taxonomy that isn't too broad or precise and that has a localized version so that all languages can link to the same taxonomy.
Is this not available via the web interface? Sync lets you block entire communities.
You can block communities but not instances on the webUI. I do filter the instance on Sync.
I'm at almost 30 sports-related communities blocked on fanaticus.social, which I wish I could do with one instance-level block.
I would rather have a filter that would hide any content that is related to chosen topics.
lol yea I keep blocking the sports bots that post game stats, it took ages cause each team has their own bot but I seem to have blocked all of them at this point
This isn't a problem for me. I just block out those instances. Also I swap to the everything feed every so often to find new communities to sub to, then usually go back to subscription feed.
Exactly. I'm too lazy to set filters and what not, but I just know what I'm getting into for the All feed. I deal with that until I can't take it, add a few communities, and retreat back to the safety of Subscribed.
Both would be even better...
Reddit had a keyword option to filter out items. I had cat in there and it worked for years. Was pretty simple. Not sure if it was part of the third party app I used or internal to Reddit. Either way it was effective.
Some clients such as Sync have that
YES! A hide sports button sounds amazing. Including car sports of course.
And a hide Hentai/Manga/Anime button. I don't understand its popularity.
A hide Games/Gaming/Gamer button including PS1-7, Xbox, Playstation etc..
Definitely a hide Furry/yiff/fetish button.
A boobs/celeb/shoes button
A religion button.
People can look at whatever they like, but it would be amazing of my block list could be reduced from a thousand to a couple. The brilliant thing about federated instances is also one of the most annoying. If you block something on lemmy.world you likely have the same community on lemmy.ml or many of the other instances. Blocking the exact thing five times is tedious.
And a hide Hentai/Manga/Anime button. I don’t understand its popularity.
Porn/Comics/TV Series are popular. They’re just variants of those, not really that hard to understand.
I get that, but like the things I mentioned, most porn/comics/TV is boring, predictable, generic crap and a waste of time and brain cells. So, I don't understand why most porn/comics/TV is popular either. Absolute garbage! I can think of a thousand things I'd rather be doing than sifting through all that generic crap.
Add gaming while you're at it. I'm a former gamer but I'm in full on grandpa mode at this point and sick of seeing it.
I'd rather just a "Hide Thread" button but I can't find one.