I’m playing whack a mole constantly, blocking all these anime subs!

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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?

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I’ve had to block a lot of anime subs. It was a problem for a while, but now I hardly see any.

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14 points

Yes, blocking something you don’t want to see usually results in seeing fewer of that thing.

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15 points

Not when that thing has dozens of communities for every little nuance a genre can have. For example:

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Right (appreciate the sparky comment), but there seem to be anime subs for every little anime niche there could possibly be. If it was all limited to a few anime subs this would never have been an issue. Block one or two communities, and you’re done.

Instead, you have to play wackamole and block communities every couple of weeks that get created for some new niche that apparently is t filled.

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I had to do this for US politics but I don’t recall when I last saw an anime related post.

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Check out ani.social and go from there.

Or just look at my post history.

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It comes and goes in waves I believe. There was a time when you’d see a wave of Moe themed communities. The same has happened for music, and ai too. If you haven’t seen it, or don’t recall, then count yourself lucky.

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Oh, they never stopped. I’m still posting regularly to all of them, but I set up all the ones I wanted, so if you blocked them you wont have seen any new ones pop up in a while.

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Yes, OP’s post is unpopular.

I would also like to sign up for Anime news and updates.

Please lmk how to do this.

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For grins just now I scrolled through ten (10) pages on “all” (i.e. including federated and not just local lemmy.world posts) and sorted by “hot” (the default).

I got one MurderMoe post, one ChainsawFolk post, and one TouhouProject post.

…And about ten linuxmemes posts, I didn’t even count how many politics posts, several TenForward posts, like five Lemmy Shitposts entries, quite a few News and World news, and three inscrutable posts in Arabic despite by content language being set to English.

Barely a single pair of anime tiddies among the whole lot. What a drag.

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This has been my experience. Not complaining tbh but yeah when people complain about how they see “so much x” I begin to wonder if the rage-algo kicked in

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I normally find everything I see is in groups. I see either 1 or 2 anime posts, or 45. Never really anything in the middle.

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4 points

No ich_iel?

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6 points

You might try ani.social instance for more anime.

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There is a post about anime communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world

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51 points

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.

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What’s crazy to me is that I browse all and have very little blocked and I don’t see the huge amounts of whatever the posts are complaining about (except if the complaint is about US politics). Rarely see more than 1 or 2 anime related posts in about 2 communities. Almost never see porn of any kind; let alone furry stuff and I’m on an instance meant for it.

Makes me wonder if they’re just getting a bug that some apps have where it just keeps repeating the same 5 posts as you scroll instead of correctly updating. That was the biggest issue I had with Connect and Liftoff.

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6 points

I’m the same. I browse All and don’t remember the last time I saw any anime communities. I see porn occasionally, but it doesn’t bother me. When I find a community I like, I subscribe to it. If it’s a community I don’t like, I’ll block it. Once Lemmy grows more, I’ll probably just switch over to my subscribed feed.

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I ran across a bunch of anime and weird fucking sexual anime pics until blocking. Not a big enough deal to make a thread but wanted to share that it does happen and my browsing/subs are mostly tech/networking, politics and formula1

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2 points

Hmm yeah, definitely complainers should expand in what their setup is.

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16 points

yeah, it doesn’t make sense to complain, but browsing ALL and blocking what you never wanna see again leaves you with lots of neat stuff you wouldn’t have found sticking to your subscribed communities.

however, i wish lemmy had categories/tags for communities, so people could block or specificly browse everything anime or everything sports etc. it would be quite helpful.

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4 points

This is what Im doing for now, also trying to subscribe to a bunch of stuff.

But Im newbhear and still browse reddit some as I figure all this out.

Now if only my favorite twitter followers would switch to mastadon…

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3 points

Welcome here!

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1 point

Tickle them until they agree to switch to Mastodon! Mwa ha ha ha!

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4 points

leaves you with lots of neat stuff you wouldn’t have found sticking to your subscribed communities.

Oh yeah, I can totally dig that, I had the trending communities at my subbed communities though, although I don’t see it popping up as often as it used to.

however, i wish lemmy had categories/tags for communities, so people could block or specificly browse everything anime or everything sports etc. it would be quite helpful.

I like Summit for Lemmy a lot because it let me create multi communities, so far I have one for gaming, one for retrogaming and other for handheld gaming, sadly Lemmy ain’t reddit yet (only the first two are fairly active).

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3 points

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Lemmy needs customized feeds. You create a feed, You call it “Nintendo”. Then you create another catagory, “subscribed”. Then you open the subscribed catagory, and uncheck all the communities you’re subscribed to that relate to Nintendo.

Then you open Nintendo, and uncheck all, then recheck all communities that DO relate to Nintendo.

Now, if Nintendo has their direct, and it’s 11am because Japan isn’t in the same time zone as America, so you’re at work…you can browse “Subscribed” without being spoiled on the direct. Then, AFTER you get home, and watch the direct, you can browse by Subscribed + Nintendo, and you’ll see all your communities. Or browese by Nintendo, and ONLY see Nintendo communities that you’re subscribed to.

Now do that for every catagory you subscribe to.

You could browse by Nintendo + Pro Wrestling. Now you’re seeing a custom feed of JUST Nintendo related communities, and JUST Pro Wrestling communities mixed together in one feed. But you wouldn’t see your news communties, or your photography communities, or your porn communities.

But if you browse by all, you should have 2 options, All-All, and All-Local. Which should both be self explainitory. But browsing by All, you shouldn’t get the right to complain that somethng exists. You can block it, and never see it again, but that doesn’t mean someone else won’t make a similiar community, and you can’t complain. Things exist. Deal with it.

But we do need some more elaborate subscribe based feeds.

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6 points

Multi communities are going to arrive thanks to a recent funding: https://lemmy.world/post/19692354?scrollToComments=true

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All is how I browsed reddit, so it’s how I browse Lemmy too. Like others have said, it allows you to find new communities, and is a pleasant experience once you filter out all the trouble communities and instances.

And TBF, Lemmy doesn’t have default communities and I’m too lazy/ADHD to subscribe to any of them.

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4 points

That is fair, browsing my subbed subreddits for more than 10 years was my way to go for Reddit (Reddit was my replacement for Feedly, basically, so I am used to curating my stuff).

Maybe that is why, aside from the APIcalypse I don’t have a grudge against Reddit, and I missed some huge drama shit and toxic bs that you’d find in r/All (spam, bots and reposts too).

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6 points

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)

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3 points

I follow more than 800 communities, I never finish up my backlog feed 🤣 (but I do see a lot of repeated content for sure).

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I’ve got maybe 50? But you can’t get new ones without browsing “All” or searching for specific stuff. If you don’t know what you’re looking for “All” is the only way to find new communities.

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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.

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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.

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3 points

I like browsing all / scaled to find new community 🫠

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2 points

Well, that is nice the trending communities community used to do that for me though.

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2 points

Isn’t this instant dependent though?

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2 points

No, the majority probably does as you do

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I’d suppose that, but so far all people that have replied to me say otherwise 😅

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39 points

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

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16 points

You can straight up just stalk my post history ;D

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6 points

You pop up so often I’m surprised when your not around.

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7 points

MentalEdge goes on 7 day vacation.

You: “Hello, police? I think MentalEdge has been kidnapped or murdered. I haven’t seen any anime titties lately!”

Police: “…what is going on now?”

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6 points

Yeah :D

It’s a pity not everyone wants me around, but I’m not going anywhere, so complaints are quite pointless.

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33 points

Yes. My block list is YUGE.

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fedi needs people posting across communities to liven it up

Curious coming from someone with 0 posts.

But yes, we do need more people

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30 points

I browse by All, and rarely see them anymore. I think my instance and community blocking strategy must be working.

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10 points

This person curates their feed ⬆️

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6 points

How can I achieve this?

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16 points

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.

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