There's no algorithm here so clicking on something doesn't affect what you see afterward.

If you're browsing "All", then you're seeing posts from everywhere. The anime is a large part of that but you can make all of it disappear with a few blocked communities as the content really only shows up in a few of them. Once you've put them on your block list, you won't see any of that content in your "all" feed.

There is no feed, it's: your subscriptions, and everything else. If you stick to your subscriptions, you won't see what you don't want.

Block the communities not the posters as the posters change.

The problem with anime is that they make new communities all the time about the latest thing or so. So you can't really block communities and expect that to make anime disappear. And as others have said, blocking users also doesn't help as they also keep changing.

So what's left? Block entire instances that seem to be mostly anime. That's somewhere in your settings. Or stick to your subscribed feed. You can change the default feed also in your settings.

And to clear up one misconception: Lemmy has no way of measuring your interest in topics and doesn't track what links you click. The "everything" feed is just a combination of what everybody on Lemmy posts.

How do I stop it?

From what I understand, unlike most corporate social media, ActivityPub based software, such as Lemmy, doesn't have an algorithm. By that I mean that it doesn't track what your interests are based on what you interact with for the purpose of farming engagement. Basically, you're seeing a lot of anime stuff because it's what people are actually posting and not because your corporate overlords are shoving it down your throat.

i had the same problem with all these “-moe” communities, and found out piefed has a great solution. from the web ui you can add a filter, and block any community with the word moe in one go rather than playing whack a mole every time a new one pops up or blocking a whole instance full of people

You could try blocking the entire ani.social instance, that should get most of them.

Post more stuff to push it out of the feed

I used to find exactly that, but I blocked the ani.social instance and its barely any now.

Go in settings, tap Blocks and at the bottom, add a blocked instance: ani.social

Occasionally someone makes an unsavoury community elsewhere, so I block those when they come up - tap through to the community and tap the sidebar and you can tap the Block Community button.

A lot of good advice here. Making Feeds on Piefed works too. Ex:

• https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
• https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent

Block users and groups until it gets managable. An "all" feed has loads of all.

I had the same problem but with tankies. Blocking Lemmy.ml fixed the problem.

There's a particularly obnoxious Moe fan that posts on a multitude of separate accounts instances and communities to insure his posts are seen by everyone.

When I expressed my concern that some of his Moe was almost anime child porn because it featured underaged girls in explicit poses, he said it was his right to promote those pictures.

It took several weeks to block every moe community because of him.

Unfortunately, it's the only way to stop it. Every time you see one, click the community and block it.

Yeah I tend to block the anime and "*moe" communities and instances. There's too much being posted, and it's a lot of the time border-line CSAM. I confronted someone about it—one poster who consistently only posts anime content featuring children in semi-lewd situations, positions, and clothing.

He basically did the next more adult version of putting his thumbs in his ears, waving his fingers back and forth and chanting "nah nah na-nah nah" at me. They weren't contesting being a paedo at all, when confronted. Just replying with complete nonsense, troll comments.

So I just block. 🤷‍♂️ Fuck 'em.

I must have blocked a dozen fucking Moe communities so far 🙄

Ask Lemmy is not a support community. Locking.

It would be nice if sub's could be marked with content tags which could then be filtered

Tags could be subject matter, like anime, but also language, or region.

This way I could setup filters for "my region or country only" and "only English and Spanish sub's" or "no regional sub's except Canada" and "no anime" to block every anime sub

because lemmy is funny of anime nerds.

block the communities.

Sub to coms/mags you like, then browse subscribed.

It's mostly just a couple users. I just blocked them and then almost never see it.

I usually try not to block users if I can help it, but it was the only viable option when they spin up a new community for every genre of borderline CSAM that someone posts to pixiv.

God has blessed you