Communities that are about actively looking for things to get mad at. Cringe, lolcows, ragebait, etc. It's not healthy and it quickly devolves into bullying.
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Actual Republican spaces. They can stay the fuck on Reddit and Twitter.
Controversial, but fauxbait. It means "fake jailbait". Jailbait, of course, refers to lewd pictures of underage girls. So fauxbait is women who are of the age of majority, but strive to look as young as possible. They shave and wax, they don't eat as much as they should, and they're generally short to boot, so it looks like you're looking at a middle school kid, but it's really someone who can drink at the bar in America (21+).
Especially since Lemmy is so big on exposing the people in the Trump-Epstein files who are trafficking and abusing young women and girls, I don't want to see people posting fauxbait. It makes the whole fediverse look bad. Like we don't care about the girls, we only wanna take down the billionaires, and we only pretend to care about their extracurricular activities because it's ethical leverage.
I guess if you're 17-20, these girls are fine to you, but I'm pushing 50 and have nieces and nephews who are older than that. I like seeing grown women as much as the next guy, but if my first thought is, "she needs to put something on," she's probably too young (or is trying to look that way) and that's something I don't wanna see.
I think this one is very pertinent, I don't see a lot of fauxbait here but I get frustrated at the Anime when some of it skirts with similar issues. I know its a cartoon but it still perpetuates it, and it seems acceptable to portray sexualised youth because ya know it's just cartoon culture (yeh its not). The normalisation in so many areas is horrible to see.
Key to enjoying the fediverse is blocking the fuck out of every comm you dont want to see on your feed. I have lots of stuff blocked, some keywords and users as well. I recommended Voyager as a client, it has various features in that regard.
I spend enough time playing whack-a-mole on my various platforms now that I might as well call it a hobby.
Any of the MGTOW/redpill/incel communities, as well as the communities posing as self improvement ones while feeding their new members directly into the redpill/incel pipeline.
Does this also apply to /c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Are you for real suggesting it's the same lol? That's a satirical com that even me as a cis man finds funny
Edit: half the posts are just hyper horny transfem lesbian memes too so I don't even know how you'd be offended by it
That place seems innocuous and quite funny, I don't think it applies. TwoXChromosomes is way more toxic, lol.
yeah, for me. i think any gender extremism should be banned and is toxic af.
people who get so wrapped up in their gender identity that they need to police or harass other people over theirs, is fucked up.
femcelmemes seems to be a very tongue in cheek community, based on what I've seen there. at best they roleplay the female equivalent of an incel to make fun of them.
depends on how you perceive of things. my experience of femcels is a lot of hostility and toxic behaviors.
but i don't think women are inherently weak or harmless, which if you do, would color how you interpret things, and is the default bias most folks have.
Exhibit A: Callous disregard for human life

Exhibit B: Glamorizing murder

Exhibit C: Promoting sloth and laziness

Exhibit D: Openly admitting to spreading disinformation

Is THIS the sort of extremist, radicalizing content you want to see on the fediverse?
I DEMAND to see more photos of Femcel Memes!

I don’t care because I can just block the community.
I use voyager webapp and blocking a community takes 3 seconds:
- you are in the „All“-tab
- you see a community you want to never see again
- you don’t have to enter the post or community, simply press and hold the community
- tap „block community“
Love how the top comment is off topic. Classic Reddit
The question op asked is a legitimate one, and I deliver the solution to the whole problem. Instead of being frustrated from communities I can simply block them.
I do block and I’m getting better at it.
What’s prompted the question for me has been:
Relationship drama in ask lemmy
Celebrity crap in news
That’s just 2 there has been more. In R they would have been in defined spaces that I ignore. Here people don’t know where to put them so it’s usually a generic but common community. This has had me thinking what do I hope does not start appearing.
Still curious though. what one community DON’T you want to see here? Unlease your gripe, we all have them.
I block communities I have not interest in. So I don't want any real limits on whats created.
Yea, there is already a lot of subs I don't like, but... I have chose. An instance which is a little selective and block the rest. I also block spammy people with low tolerance.
So far it works nicely.
yeah and its nothing against the communities. sometimes its just not my thing. Even with users it might not be that bad a person but they just grate on me. With the fediverse I decided to throw out many of the internet conventions and treat it like I would real life.
anything to do with promoting violence against minorities. that was something reddit defended as "freedom of speech"
Billionaires are a minority ...
That's a very reductive meaning of word minority.
Minority doesn't just quantity. You can have large quantities of slaves and they are still the minority in a world where money=power.
Billionaires are not at risk of disenfranchised by someone with more power eg: money. In a world that benefits those with money with power.
They don't have their lives literally at risk over not being able to pay a medical bill. Or eat.
Billionaires benefit from social economic oppression.
Billionaires are social economic oppression.
but violence against majorities or 'oppressors' is OK?
heck, entire instances here are built on the principle of violent revolution against certain groups, but not against their group...
Yeah, you might even find people on here celebrating John Brown or the French resistance in WWII. The horror!
I don't understand anything of what you just said.
yeah, I notice that when you confront folks on lemmy about the hypocrisy of their beliefs they pretend to be dumb, or just call you names.
it's funny how violence is totally cool here, as long as the person calling for it doesn't feel like they would be subjected to it.
Fuck no, I DO wanna see the Lemmy flavor of AM I THE ASSHOLE!
We're all a bunch of older tech guys who regret how pro tech we were in the 00s or younger zoomers tryna "detox" from classic social media... or russian bots and creepy eastern europeans trying to convince be Black Arch should be my new daily driver. I WANT to see how you're the asshole there!
Like my god, imagine it. Imagine the kinds of things we'd see. Like
"Am I (52m) the asshole for telling my wife (59f) she can't use iPhone and telling her to use a dumbphone?"
Or some shit like
"Am I (20m) the asshole for telling my friends I'm not gonna make a tiktok account?"
my god, this would be glorious! I want it, I NEED IT, bro! I fucking NEED to see this shit!
create this community pls if this doesnt exist yet
What would it be called?
It would need quite specific rules. I’m not creating it however I do worry about those kind of things.
I set up a guest tv and I felt really bad having to explain I use dedicated tv boxes and don’t want to tv connected to the internet. I was tempted to make a guide. I argued with myself it was an unreasonable expectation on my visitors.
I wish people would limit US politics to comms designated for that, rather than forcing the rest of us to wade through that filth looking for world news. It's already all over every other news source.
Lemmy is my only news source LOL
Keyword filters work pretty well for this. I have keyword filters for Trump, Musk, Boebert, RFK, and I couldn't give a flying fuck about if Mitch McConnell is dead or not.
God damn I know, like you can't even escape it even in meme communities. The worst is the meme community posts that are literally just news posts in screenshot form. I don't fucking care, how is a screenshot of something an American politician said on Facebook or Twitter funny?
the political people here will argue with you how the shape of your poo is a political act and determines your 'team'.
for a lot of people US politics is the only thing that gives their life meaning.
Anything centered around video.
communities that rely on misogyny, racism, or prejudice in general
repost communities
communities that promote generated content
Reddit used to have r/picsofdeadkids. I'm probably ok without that one.
I think there was a sub that was called /r/jailbait as well.
The fact that Reddit became mainstream after all that vile shit thriving on that platform is nothing short of insane.
any sub rewriting history.
Most any community dedicated to reposting content from another site, especially if it's automated.
Simply reposting things from Reddit or feeding something like hackernews directly to a community is not helpful, and doesn't really inspire discussion. It just adds more noise that people have to sort out
I think the main thing there is not to just post links. repost the text of the source. Im don't care if it reduces traffic to the other sites. not going to reduce my traffic and I aint gonna to to it. so put in text to converse about or I won't be discussing it.
I have 0 patience for people who "don't want to see that" on fedi. The whole concept behind fedi is to have a single connected web of every social media platform -- the design and implementation is specifically intended to make space for literally everyone and everything. If you don't like encountering something, it is incumbent on you to use the curation tools at your disposal to remove it from your feed -- you have no right to try to remove it from fedi altogether.
Just because I'm saying I don't want to see it doesn't mean I don't want you to see it. Let's not get heated out the gate.
If this is straight out of the gate for you, I'm sincerely sorry your first comment you read on the matter was me getting heated. For me, this is approximately the 4 billionth thread about "how should we gatekeep fedi?" and I'm extremely over it, possibly to the extent that I react when "who should we gatekeep?" is only a small part of a larger conversation.
I don’t want to see any Reddit communities. Anything worth emulating there died 10 or more years ago. I’d rather we came up with our own original communities with actual standards.
IMO the worst Reddit communities are the ones themed around other Reddit communities and posts. Best of XYZ, XYZ updates, XYZ drama, etc. They are designed to generate shit-tier rage commentary and they get reposted relentlessly. I miss the days when reposters would get attacked in the comments and mass downvoted.
things that could bring the server under investigation for illegal activities.
otherwise, I can block them.
Sports communities.
I hate how many pop up post 3 things a day for a month then disappear. Bloats the hell out of my block list.
It's because someone thinks "My team can have a community here!" And they try, they post stuff and try to get the fans together to talk about the team and sport they love.
But if there's minimal engagement, they eventually give up.
It's definitely discouraging. Getting to the point that the median post on !nwsl@lemmy.world was above zero took like 2-3 years -- I'm not surprised the vast majority of posters don't slog through.
Wow thanks for posting about this. I recently got into it since the spirit are local to me.
For over a year it was only me posting in !womenshockey@reddthat.com with almost no interaction.
I started following the nwsl because of your post's and community. I do not have time to watch games, but I b dope among because of you.
You realize sports communities usually keep to themselves. Oh no your block list it's bloated. Sounds like it's working
I wasn't trying to have a dig or offend communities. We all have very valid interests that others dislike. Please don't take it personal. I am often told i am blunt so this is meant with a lighthearted intent, and see it more as a conversation rather than a negative.
Says me that states in the OP that i 'hate...'
Until one team losses and the winning team starts tolling or bridging the losing team, or there is a sport ball event and its plastered everywhere, or someone is banned from world so they make a new community on zip or piefed or db0.
Asking what people don't want serves no function since you have no way to prevent it anyhow, it only serves to give trolls inspiration.
I thought that at first but the truth is stuff is starting to migrate over and is appearing in communities such as this one or news etc. I would rather it was added but added in the right place. Then it gives the individual control to block.
I don't think it can be stopped and conversations and management are better thought of in advance.
I think my title could be less baity.
not so much community, but the general thing I can't stand is the victim echo chamber mentality things.
it's so bizarre to me. there is a lot of it here, and no matter if you block the communities the mentality is everywhere in every thread, and folks are hostile about it. and most of the communities here built around their victim status turn it into a superiority complex about how they have magical powers and abilities that their 'oppressors' do not.
I don't want to see 'explain the joke' communities.
Some jokes are meant to be inside jokes, do your own research it takes a few secs, and the communities just become repost farms.
Looking and other replies, I don't agree that this post has to have to do with technical solutions to what we don't want to see here. Obviously we can block what we don't want to see, so that's not even a question I find engaging. Instead, I'll make my response about what communities used to annoy me over at Reddit and why.
- Grooming subs, subs that generate and/or distribute CSAM, ban evasion subs (hopefully I don't need to give reasons for this one. If you want reasons, ask).
- White supremacist subs, because I'm leftist and I hate to see the otherization and demonization of marginalized people that they foster.
- Big tech offshoots like r/TikTokCringe because I went to Reddit to get away from them before it went shit, news subs like r/news because if I want watch or read the news I go to my own sources, braindead slop like r/LivestreamFail because they're already available over at Meta's toilets and TikTok if I wanted to have anything to do with them.
Any sublemmy that's name starts with "fuck".
Always a miserable time, even if I agree with the sentiment of some of those places.
The best thing about Reddit is that it lets you mute any community you don't like, and you can even block notifications and your timeline from giving you recommendations or suggestions altogether. So honestly, with all these features, Idk how anyone could still have a problem with certain communities existing!
You can’t block any community you don’t like on reddit because there’s a limit on the number you can mute. I know this because I hit that limit before I deleted my account.
Honestly, I didn't know that there was a limit! That's going to be annoying for people who don't want to see certain subreddits, but at the same time don't want to isolate themselves like me!
It took me a while to figure out. I had a bad habit of scrolling r/popular for (effectively) infinite content, and I tried trimming it down to just stuff I liked by muting communities until one day it started giving me a simple error when I’d try to mute something. I searched around after a while and that’s when i found out about the limit. Reddit itself says nothing about the limit existing anywhere.
Exactly this! I left Reddit after I’ve reached this limit too, couldn’t even block porn anymore, what a failure.
because you can still be targeted/reported/harassed by those people and their communities.
blocking/muting might give you peace of mind, but it doesn't isolate you from the negative externalities those communities bring with them towards you or other users/communities.



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