Possibly another approach to my last post, but with wider scope - https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25640154
Is it possible to share a blocklist of communities based on themes? I would find a non English language list very useful, but as I said in the previous post blocking an instance like *.de or *.nl means interrupting comments by users in an English post. Instance level blocking means people who speak multiple languages (and I am one myself) are hidden from me.
But if this were possible it could also be used to block communities for topics I have no interest in, such as sports or all the software I never use announcing update releases. It makes tuning my feed a chore and I think this would improve the experience for everyone’s tastes.
I browse all and block communities I’ll never be interested in on the fly. And a bunch of the mene/repost communities, eg. Pics.
I wish there was a way of reliably blocking by topic/tag. I have a very long block list that would be a lot simpler if it could be reduced to:
- Languages I don’t understand
- Anything sports
- Anything furry
- Anything anime
- Porn
- Generative AI slop
Yes exactly. Even anime or TV shows i enjoy i block for fear of spoilers.
That reminds me I can probably unblock Severance now that I’ve finally watched S2.
Yes so do I, that’s my problem. I want to be able to filter content to my interests by category, not individually. It’s tiresome to block nba, nfl, futebol, even individual teams. A blocklist i could import for “sport” would be a huge experience improvement for me, just as I imagine for a sports fan if they so wished could block all “anime”.
I always want to block feddit.org, but there are also some English communities I’m interested in, so that means I have to manually block all German communities. I’m not sure how this could be fixed, except forcing mods/people making communities to use the language selection.
