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
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.
Sorry for this, feel free to block all of the communities related to the topics. That should allow smaller ones to come to your feed.
Pictures, food, movies communities are rising, there is hope
Click the 3 dot button on a post. Select filter. You can filter by user, community, or entire instance.
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.
How do you do that? I cant figure it out. If i see one nore fuck cars post in gonna lose my shit
On the basic mobile website, you go to the sub... community you want to block or even just the comments for a post, expand the side bar button at the top, then hit Block Community.
For example, on this post, I go into these comments, hit Sidebar at the top of the comments, then block community.
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.
Block the meme communities. It makes things much better. I wish there was a way to relegate certain things to a separate feed without completely blocking them. But right now block is the only tool.
I've actually considered making other accounts to separate content out by blocking different communities on them, but I've never really felt the desire to filter out the memes enough to go through with it.
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.
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!
Does your instance federate with lemmynsfw?
If so, go follow a community there and you'll see them soon enough
tbh I browser All or Local really rarely, I am mostly in my subscribed communities and really like Lemmy
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.
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....
This is how Reddit was in the beginning, too. Over time things will change, until then, blocking works wonders.
I am really enjoying the statement on being a straight woman, but unlike the rest of your statements you didn't elaborate on boobs.
Apparently you can block from within a comments section now. That's slightly safer than going to a community front page...
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.
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
The Central Government (federal government) just passed a new data protection law, and has introduced new laws to replace the criminal justice laws (crimes, punishments, procedures, evidence, trials).
The data protection law gives way too much power to the Central Government, and they can basically exempt anyone and anything from the law.
The current criminal laws have slowly evolved with a lot of debate since the late 1800s. The new criminal laws seem rushed.
To be fair, I am Lithuanian and a lot of stuff online goes like અને પછી તેઓ કેટલીક અસ્પષ્ટ ભાષા બોલવાનું શરૂ કરે છે
I kinda like it as a soap opera. I hate actual soaps, but this is a better version to watch.
I can go through so much popcorn.
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.
Alright, polandball time: I'll ask around the EU++ who wants to play Arkansas in the school play...if nobody takes it, I'm giving it to Hungary :D because they're being a dick lately. So, which state do you want? I hear Idaho's nice :) Germany already took California, France took New York, Italy took Texas, Spain took Florida, the Netherlands took Pennsylvania, Poland took Illinois, Romania got Georgia, Sweden asked for Michigan and Austria asked for Massachusets, Finland got offered Indiana, but picked Arizona, lol etc etc...sooo...do you want Wisconsin, Lithuania? Also: UK guest starring as Canada and Turkey as Mexico lol
Idaho, the mountainous parts, are nice. Some of the people are nice. But in general, Idaho has some of the most batshit insane stuff happening in it in regards to cults and crazy people. It's been getting crazier in recent years. They were an absolute mess during the pandemic and needed tons of help from other states who then couldn't look after locals in need.
I was trying to be inclusive, because I'm not american and I don't want to disparage those places I've never been to or know that well...but since you say it...rural states sound like a backwater nightmare :/
Honestly, all they really need are better schools and then about 20-30 years for those kids to become adults. Changes society for the better. Religion is a big chink in people's armor here. I wouldn't count 'em out yet, but right now...God fuck there is some crazy shit that goes down there, lol.
Still, gotta give them credit where credit is due: Idaho was the state that hosted the Sawtooth wolf pack which was a research program that later helped reintroduce the wolves to Yellowstone. This led to a broader effort to restore apex predators across the US, which has restored ecosystems and made the animal populations much more healthy, from the northern US all the way down to the southern US.
So, while Idaho can sometimes be rather trying, they have given us some pretty good environmental gifts and research.
Didn't realize Lithuania was under 3 million. For some reason I had it in my head that they were closer to 4-5. Insane.
I think they just mean it's irrelevant to them. I'm a US native and I'm sure I'd find it annoying. In fact, sometimes I'd be annoyed on reddit that so much of the content was about the US. I like that lemmy is more of a melting pot.
I think the US may account for the largest demographic on lemmy still due to the reddit exodus, but it seems to be much less pronounced here on lemmy at the very least.
State as in national? Sure.
State as in US subdivision? Nah.
Y'all might care what Westminster or the Bundestag or maybe Brussels say, but about what comes out of the state capital of Wyoming, I couldn't fathom giving any less of a fuck than I already do. Which is none.
Why should the California government matter less than the Lithuania? It has a much higher population, much more of a cultural influence globally, and a much bigger economy.
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.
Easy to be the world champion in egg handball if you're the only country that plays that version of egg handball.
Which instances local have less content on politics or us politics? Beside lemmynsfw of course
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.
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.
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. If there is a com for every team, why can't I find the ones for my teams? I get that that my teams probably have few subscribers so they're not ever likely to show up on ALL. But even when I actively look for em, I can't find em. I'm still new to this platform so I have much to learn.
Which sports in particular are you looking for? Most of the popular sports and teams have fledgling communities
Are you browsing Hot? I use Top 12H
They didn't annoy me that much but I saw a lot of them and was being proactive about cleaning up my feed. On reddit, anime was BY FAR my most blocked type of sub but with sports in second. On here it's sports > porn > memes
Yeah. I think some get ahead of themselves, lemmy isn't big enough enough to support the splintering.
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?).
that moment when you're just trying to hide nba posts but you accidentally hide your beloved 'cocknballtorture' communities 😔
Simple fix. "NBA" is added to the exclude list, but an exception is added for "knbal" to the include list.
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.
Because language evolves and isn't prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
I’ve taken to staying away from “all” just to try and isolate myself from the madness that those people are involved in. What an absolute acid trip of a country.
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...
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.
Yup, developers.
Instance admins adding such tags would make it inconsistent and basically impossible to use. It should be unified = implemented by Lemmy developers.
P.S. Developers who develop Lemmy software. Admins who own and manage instance (website/server).
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.
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..
I don't think I've seen a single post about sports in Lemmy. Ever. Same with mastodon.
PS: just saw the first sports post about the gunners :/ we're going to need more tools to filter post topics and instances, otherwise it will be impossible to discover anything you're not already subscribed to.
I don't think the group of people interested in sports and the group of tech savvy that use the fediverse overlap that much!
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.
How would you tag your Dickcissel and your Great Tit going after an Antarctic Shag and an Invisible Rail? Do we want our Flying Steamer Duck having fun with a Fluffy-backed Tit-Babbler?
The problem, as always, is people. People would either forget to tag their posts or intentionally abuse the system. It's hard enough for mods to tag actual NSFW as such, giving them 5 additional tags to monitor for isn't going to help them at all.
I do really wish we could get a system like this though. There were many times in my younger days I was browsing /r/all without NSFW filtered out expecting the occasional surprise boob and would see things that could cause a legitimate need for therapy.
I think this could end up too fine-grained, or perhaps some sort of heriachy system.
Maybe "nsfw/gore/minor-injury", and allowing you to block everything under "nsfw/gore"?
But you need to ensure that the top level instances use the same(ish) tags. If i block nsfw/gore, but the random small instances just tags things just gore.... then I'm gonna have a bad time.
I was thinking about some kind of grouping system or hierarchy, but to be blunt the post was running long as-is.
I figured it would be cool for some communities if posts could be tagged with copyright details, particularly if the community focuses on copyleft. For exampe, a community for sharing background images, could have a post from a poser who has an an anticorporate "Share and Share alike" type vibe:
Resolution/800x600
- tags for common resolutionsLicense/CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- would imply that the linked content was licensed Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International"CW/Boobs
- Implies that this might be NSFW if your workplace doesn't approve of boobs.Animal/Mouse
- The post contains an image of a mouseThe post could be linked to a Pixelfed, Imjur, Flicr, or other reasonable picture hosting site. The community's AutoMod could load the link in the post and scrape for licensing indicators (based on the hosting site) and either block the post, flag it for manual, or whatever if it suspects there's a mismatch. ditto for verifying that the image is the correct resolution. Maybe posts that don't please the AutoMod are delayed by some amount of time (where the mods can review them if they wish, but after an hour or so would get posted.
The mods would never have to worry about the resolution tags, the AutoMod bot would take care of that automagically (if mods can modify tags, maybe AutoMod could correct the resolution tag based on the scraped image and even if it were done wrong, it probably wouldn't be a huge issue unless it were egregiously wrong). If foul play were suspected regarding licensing (i.e. maybe that risque cartoon mouse from Steamboat Willie isn't the author's original work to republish as creative commons) it would have to be handled by regular moderation techniques, & that's no worse than what we had to begin with.
The CW/Boobs
and `Animal/Mouse tags don't do anything at all with the Mods or AutoMod, but the Animal tag would show up after the post title, and based on the user's preferences, the user's app (or the main website) would blur the image by default due to the boobs.
In other words, a post to the community 'Indie Anime Wallpapers' by a patreon-funded artist could post their latest work "Sticking it to the Mouse" would look better titled as: "Sticking it to the Mouse" Mouse
, 800x600
, Boobs
, than if it had the old school title "[F][Mouse]Sticking it to the Mouse[800x600][CC]"
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.