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I don’t care because I can just block the community.
I use voyager webapp and blocking a community takes 3 seconds:
This is the way. Everybody has different interests, that is what "subscribed" is for. I have no interest in Anime, Sports and Porn, but do I think people with those interests shouldn't be here? No.
Actual Republican spaces. They can stay the fuck on Reddit and Twitter.
Republican oxygen can stay on some other planet.
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.
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.
Any sublemmy that's name starts with "fuck".
Always a miserable time, even if I agree with the sentiment of some of those places.
Focusing on things you hate leads to noticing more of the thing you hate. Sounds miserable.
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
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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!
I liked seeing AITA posts on bestofredditupdates. we can't have that without first having an AITA comm. So i support the creation of an AITA community
+1
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.
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.
They were both created and moderated by violentacrez.
I block communities I have not interest in. So I don't want any real limits on whats created.
Anything centered around video.
communities that rely on misogyny, racism, or prejudice in general
repost communities
communities that promote generated content
anything to do with promoting violence against minorities. that was something reddit defended as "freedom of speech"
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.
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.
things that could bring the server under investigation for illegal activities.
otherwise, I can block them.
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
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 came in here expecting people would want rightwingers and fascists banned. Instead a bunch of y'all are here just going "I block out anything that's not fun!!!1!!1!1! I don't want to be reminded of the very real issues that plague the world!!" which I mean, you have every right to do that I guess. Good for you, enjoy your hole in the sand
Humans were not designed to endure this 24/7 flood of miserable shit happening all over the world, which you can't have an effect on anyway.
It's often better to engage with it in a controlled manner, at least in my opinion, especially if you're already suffering from multiple severe mental health disorders like me, even without these things making it A LOT worse.
Being on niche platforms kinda makes forces you into accepting being around weirdos and fascists. You get used to it. It kinda makes me feel good knowing I'm better tbh
Im one of those people. You seem angry about the concept. Is it morally acceptable to have any facet of life that doesnt revolve around the very real terrors that we cant stop?
