So I’ve been attempting to block communities I don’t want to see on my main feed, but it’s pretty much impossible to do these days because the communities get mirrored on so many different instances that when you block one single community 5 times, there are still 3 more versions on different instances with the exact same crap. Block them? There’s still more!

This site is rapidly becoming completely useless, the way I’ve been using it before.

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    Honestly I just want to be able to limit my feed to English only. I only speak English so this doesn’t strike me as unreasonable. I use Boost and I’ve hit ignore on many

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 days ago

    Keep at it, if curating All is what you want. That’s how I use this site too, and so far I’ve blocked over 900 communities - it has made All SO MUCH better.

    You’ll burn through the redundant communities.

    Just don’t try to do it all in one go - hit a few on each scroll and it’ll add up without being a very noticeable effort.

    • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      I wish there were giant lists of related communities and an easy way to import them as blocks. Want to block all sports team communities? Here are all 1,000 of them. All the anime communities? Here are all 90,000,000 of them.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        Community tags would enable that. Vice versa, it’d make those kinds of groupings easy to find and subscribe to for those interested.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Internet speed shouldn’t make that big a difference in a site like Lemmy. If you’re on mobile, consider trying an app (or a different app if you’re already using one). If PC, maybe a different browser? I use Firefox, at about 50 mbps according to https://www.speedtest.net/ - lemmy loads up nearly instantly.

        Another option is to use filters instead of blocks. I don’t know of a way to do it on PC, but many mobile apps support filters. You’ll have to find the right balance of being broad enough to zap all the redundant communities, but specific enough to not zap the unrelated ones that you might be interested in seeing. IMO that’s more effort than just blocking, but if internet speed is a barrier, that would make for a good plan B.

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    I’ve been using keyword blocking in uBlock Origin to clean up my all feed.

    To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:

    lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)

    For example:

    lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)

    edit lemmy.world to whatever your instance is, and the keywords to whatever stuff you don’t want to see.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 days ago

    I’m not sure what you mean. It takes some effort but yes it definitely works. I’ve probably blocked 50 communities, “mirrors” or whatever, and I don’t see them anymore. 196 is the only one I had to block repeatedly due to “mirroring”.

  • Vile Asslips@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    I’m still new to Lemmy, but I’m not understanding the point of a community mirroring on different instances. If you’re on one instance, like sh.itjust.works, I thought it’d be discoverable on all the other Lemmy instances. I would never see a point in creating multiple instances of the same community if one of mine were discoverable by All.