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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
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And block those you do not want to see if you use all.
I really wish lemmy had a mute option in addition to block. There are both users and communities I do not want to see posts from, but if I see comments (from users) and visit certain communities that is okay.
Some users seem to post every single news article they happen upon, most time I think without reading any of them. I tend to avoid all of their posts, a mute button would be fantastic.
Worst is when they copy the click bait title, so the comments are full of people raging about something like "Lemmy now has a premium cost", without realizing it's bull shit.
is lemmy as a platform particularly focused on lgbtq+ Yes, in my experience. Which is fine, but as you said finding interesting communities (that are active) is a bit of a challenge.
For me it is the American News that is overwhelming and hard to filter out completely without filtering out everything.
PS: Voyager has some excellent filter settings.
Word filters are built into Piefed as an alternative like I use for USA news/billionaire drama, or Voyager app for Lemmy. blahaj.zone it may be easiest to just instance block. You'll still see their users, but the communities won't show up anymore as I understand it.
Then go through the all the communities list and join more. Use the Subscribed feed more often instead of All.
Try blocking individual users who post undesirable content - it’s working well for me with all political bs
Browse all and just block topics you don't want to see.
Block what you don't want to see. I block all the straight porn on here that somehow makes it into All. And yes Lemmy has a large amount of lgbt users.
Also it is pride season so you'll see more queer stuff than normal.
Is there a mature filter that you've got turned off? I have never seen anything lewd on All!
There's a setting in the user profile to block/not block stuff tagged nsfw
Lemmy has good science and tech communities. Have a browse around mander and dbz0
I don't know i blocked major memes community and other topic i am not interest in. The majority is just politics and rarely other topic i am interested it becuase those topic are niche here
What people don't want to know is that you need to block as many communities and people as you possibly can in your first couple days here.
This place is jackass city, let's get that straight.
I like to peruse all and just block anything I have no interest in. People get wiereded about blocking but subscribing is functionally the same as blocking everything you did not subscribe to. I would love something like wiki foundations trust cafe as part of the federation where you can assign a 0 to 100 value for things but in the meantime figure if your really into something you subscribe (100) and if you don't care about it all block (0) and everything else is basically then a 50.
Use the All feed, and block what you don't like.