Block any community that is either sports, local area, news, crypto, AI, music, and us politics.

Nothing, I just never browse All. Being subscribed to the right communities is enough.

Blocking the tankie instances does most of the work for me.

I'm raw dogging it, dump the whole feed into my gaping maw

Personally i just block whatever crosses my feed that i do not ever want to interact with.

LOTS of weird porn, trans or women communities i have nothing to contribute to, the occasional user i personally don't vibe with. Certain political communities, most america centric news communities, there is tons of things to potentially not be interested in / annoyed with.

I only view by subscribed > new

The only posts I have to downvote are video links without text synopses.

I've blocked tons of communities that are dedicated solely to posting voluptuous anime women, and one or two instances that are clearly dedicated to trolling and rage bait. Not much other than that I don't think. I frequently browse all, but if I'm not in the mood for politics and cynicism I just stick to my subscribed feed, which is nice to be able to do.

Those anime women communities are like a hydra, though. Block one and two more take its place

Nothing really. I just block idiots.

There's so little content, I can't imagine filtering it. I just browse All, sorted by Hot.

I subscribe to communities I'm interested, from time to time I browse all to find new stuff, and block some of them.

Also some alt accounts to emulate the multis from reddit.

And on Voyager I use color coded tags for users. I try not to block users, that's just a mute button.

I just block bots and ml

I have All because I like the diversity. But that means community, keyword, and user blocks are needed.

Obviously ML is blocked, quite a few NSFW communities, gender-centric communities, religion-centric communities, political ideology communities, fan art/anime communities... Basically if it's not of interest, or of social contraversy, and loud, it gets blocked because of the types of people it attracts. This makes for a relatively toxic-free experience, few soapboxes, but still a big diversity of posts and topics come in.

Keywords go in and out when I'm fatigued by US politics or the same headlines about the same people over and over.

For users, I find it weird that many Lemmy users are obsessed with their enemies or the things they disagree with, so user blocks get dished out when I see people behaving that way too. Doesn't matter what the topic is they're "discussing".

I am on .world and filter nothing because there is nothing sketchy really...

Nothing. lemmy.world seems to be good at filtering spam instances out without hiding too much human content.

Ive blocked worldnews and that seems to have done the trick.

I dont know enough about how lemmy works, but see a bunch of discussion about "let's defederate with other instances" so its possible that whoevers running this show is doing the censoring for me. If it works something like I think it does, I dont like the concept but am pretty happy with the results so

I Block any AI community that schlorps its sweaty corpse up on the shores of All.

I filter foreign language subs/instances, not because of any disdain towards them, but just because when they wake up for the day, my feed is flooded with .de posts that I unfortunately do not understand.

I browse /all and block communities I'm not interested in.

I only block users who are spamming, trolling, or harassing. I don't really like blocking people. Everyone has a bad day sometimes and it shouldn't count against you in the long run. Of course, if you just come here to exploit people, I don't think you have anything to offer so I will block someone like that. I'm not here to spend money, so anyone who exists to extract money won't have anything to offer me.

I have no filters or blocks if there’s anything I don’t like I scroll past and don’t interact.

I block subjects containing the names Trump or Musk. They’ve slowed down, but even with the filters I still get plenty about them. For a while it seemed like they were half my feed.

I only show communities I'm subscribed to explicitly in my feed. I also block users like it's going out of fashion.

Anyone spamming things I don't care for in my feed, trolls, rage baters, or just people posting shit I have no desire to interact with our think about on the regular.

I'm using Lemmy mainly as an aggregator for memes, cat pictures, sci-fi, comics, and the likes, and like to be able to browse it on the bus or similar without worrying about what might show up.

If it's not for me, I'm most likely in the wrong community. If that's not the case I just block the poster. Nothing personal, it just doesn't jive with my desired experience for any number of reasons, so I just block it, ignore it, and move on.

Lemmy is for everyone, and I can't expect all of them to want the same out of it as me, so I can't, won't, and shouldn't do anything else about it.

None. I subscribe to about 50 groups or so, and it's fine. None are NSFW or anything, some are news, most are hobbies or general interest.

I also never block anyone, I find that really weird. Been online for decades, never had a need for it.

I don't bother with all, I don't see the point.

Nothing. I just take what it gives.

Blocked nsfw instance. Blocked Nintendo, apple, genshin impact and the ml news and politics communities.

That preserves most of my sanity. I dont actually find Lemmy interactions to be bad. Even the worst Lemmy interactions feel like there is an actual complex being on the other end of the keyboard.

When read a reddit threads it doesnt feel like real sentient beings. Shoutout to the beyond all reason subreddit for inflicting psychic damage on me every time i read a thread. Its been over 6 months and I'm still triggered over the guy who played for two hours and decided the game has to many units.

The basic blocking system.

Feels bad to use, though, blocking whole communities. I wish there was a simple "mute" button. But if there is I haven't found it.

Blahaj modding and a few manual user blocks, plus blocking communities I’m uninterested in. I haven’t blocked any terms, because I don’t like the idea of missing posts that happen to match one keyword and potentially missing a post I’m interested in.

filters exist?

I use feeds on Piefed. Take a look at these feeds with less politics and less tech:

• (less memes): https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
• (memes/humor): https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent

back when I used lemmy instead of piefed, I read by "new / subscribed" and only subscribed to those communities.

I'm personally using adblocker to hide posts with the following keywords:

xitter, united, ceo, c.e.o., exec, brian thompson, health exec, luigi, uhc, rednote, pets sunday, trump, elon, musk, nazi, fascis, israel, idf, ice, iceblock, palestin, gaza, project 2025, deport, kirsti, deepseek, rfk, it's monday, it's tuesday, it's wednesday, it's thursday, it's friday, it's saturday, it's sunday, hobbies wednesday, music monday, billionair, republican, far right, far-right, maga, doge, LGBT, pronoun, trans, gulf, christian right, nancy mace, abortion, immigrat, gop, migrant, x, measles, pedo, transgender, queer, bondi, capitalis, sandy, cybertruck, tesla, tsla, protest, hegseth, windows, executive dysfunction, waltz, detain, pope, usaid, netanyahu, palantir, curfew, Kristi, week-end, microsoft, fucklapd, epstein, ghislaine, slop, altman, nexus, kirk, genocide, zohran, kimmel, mar-a-lago, linkedin, crypto, comey, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, transpho, zionis, antifa, racis, Jake paul, us aid, guard, patrol, snap, amazon, google, openai, meta, ai, scraper, ads

I also have a similar list for the common phrases used in mean comments:

xitter, x-itter, muskrat, douchebag, chud, acab, guillotine, piece of shit, pedo, boot, leopard, bibi, fuck alex, fuck zuck, fuck musk, fuck trump, fuck spez, fuck elon, elonia, twat, pigboy, eat shit, dipshit, dumbass, fuckem, fucker, shitbag, fuck nestle, dumbfuck, class traitor, idiot, fuck off, fuck you, depose musk, fuck matt walsh, fuck america, shithead, assclown, pukebag, cunt, avocado toast, temporarily embarrassed billionaire, bootlick, elon, musk

That said, I realize I might be in the minority on this, so I’m curious what others are doing to preserve their sanity.

You're not alone in thinking that. I would not say it is unusable but it is indeed way too littered with, well, with certain type of content I'd rather not have to deal with.

• For me, a careful selection of the communities I follow combined with limiting my home feed to 'subscribed only' does the heavy lifting quite well. I find it really efficient.
• I do have a couple filtered keywords, a couple like in two names (both being names of certain people that use to make the headlines around the world).
• Then, on a day to day level, when I'm faced with anyone that is not trying to participate in a conversation but is enjoying making a fuss, trying to create drama or anyone being constantly rude, or turning any disagreement in a personal matter, I will not hesitate to block them.

I don't block much, but one thing I do is to use list view in the apps.

Having ten post on the phone screen at once makes it easier to scroll over the boring ones. I don't understand how anyone can be bothered with the default card views.

I don't use a filter. I subscribe to communities that interest me. Keep NSFW posts turned off. browse by hot, scaled and multi cummonies related to tech and all that I like.

I block porn and anime. Sometimes users that post multiple times a day in languages I don't speak

Common sense

Just .ml and specific communities around sex or identity. Individual users, tags are your friend

Block the comm. That’s all.