I’m playing whack a mole constantly, blocking all these anime subs!

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    What is mental for me is that people browse the ALL feed and then complain about what it shows… I feel crazy only browsing my subbed communities all the time lol.

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      All is how I browsed reddit, so it’s how I browse Lemmy too. Like others have said, it allows you to find new communities, and is a pleasant experience once you filter out all the trouble communities and instances.

      And TBF, Lemmy doesn’t have default communities and I’m too lazy/ADHD to subscribe to any of them.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      How few interests do you have and how active are the communities? If I did just my subbed communities all the time it would be 2 day old politics and comedy subs with last post 2+ weeks ago.

      I guess maybe you don’t browse much or you’ve got a much more active set of core subs.

      (Maybe some of that unavoidable anime and femboy content IDK)

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I follow more than 800 communities, I never finish up my backlog feed 🤣 (but I do see a lot of repeated content for sure).

      • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Why do you want to browse stuff that you have zero interest in? I imagine it to be a massive waste of time.

        I’d prefer to view only the communities I’ve subbed to and see that there is no new contributions than look at stuff I have no interest in because I can turn off Lemmy and do something else with my day.

        • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          4 days ago

          How do you know what new things you have no interest in? I block the stuff I don’t like, I sub what I definitely do like (and occasionally browse it), and the rest I am happy to watch pass by and give up- or downvotes accordingly.

          This is like asking “why would you go to a new website when you already know what you like?” Or “why would you go to a new place to look for friends or dates when you know you like people at XXX place?”.

          Frankly, sorry, this perspective of “anything I haven’t subbed I obviously don’t like” is pretty fuckin stupid. Don’t feel bad though, you aren’t alone thinking it.

          • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
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            3 days ago

            “Frankly, sorry, this perspective of “anything I haven’t subbed I obviously don’t like” is pretty fuckin stupid. Don’t feel bad though, you aren’t alone thinking it.”

            Likewise, I think it’s really stupid to be looking at content you have zero interest in. And likewise, don’t feel bad though, you aren’t alone.

            Thanks for the belittling tone of your statement there 😉. You just have a different point of view.

            How can you waste so much time looking at content that you have zero interest in? Don’t you have stuff to actually do in life, or are you one of these people that get bored because you’ve got nothing to do?

            I’m a person that never gets bored. I always have something I want to do. I don’t have time to be doing things that aren’t necessary to survive and things I don’t enjoy.

            I know who I am, and what I like. My interests are quite broad and I know what I don’t want to see. I prefer to white list my interests on Lemmy than black list the things I have zero interest in. Even thought my interests are quite broad, white listing is significantly shorter. In an infinite number of interests, my 1000 interests are significantly shorter than infinity-1000.

            Edit: When I gain a new interest, which is usually a sub interest of another interest I have then I’ll look for the community on Lemmy/Reddit/other forums.

            When I first started Reddit many years ago I learnt that all is usually full of rage bait content. I avoid rage bait as much as possible. I guestimate that all on Lemmy is exactly the same since most Lemmy users were/are Reddit users.

            • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              3 days ago

              Live your best life yo, and have fun doing you. It would be cool to be young and know everything again.

              You don’t engage with new communities, neat. I like to keep an eye open, because out of infinity - 1000, there are still infinite communities I MIGHT like. Or even infinite - 2000 I don’t like too. Look at all the math I can do. Here’s an emoji 😍. Shut up, dude. Tell all your friends how well you know yourself, your perspective is still fucking stupid.

              Belittled because, here on the net, you are little. Just like everyone else.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      What’s crazy to me is that I browse all and have very little blocked and I don’t see the huge amounts of whatever the posts are complaining about (except if the complaint is about US politics). Rarely see more than 1 or 2 anime related posts in about 2 communities. Almost never see porn of any kind; let alone furry stuff and I’m on an instance meant for it.

      Makes me wonder if they’re just getting a bug that some apps have where it just keeps repeating the same 5 posts as you scroll instead of correctly updating. That was the biggest issue I had with Connect and Liftoff.

      • Entropywins@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I ran across a bunch of anime and weird fucking sexual anime pics until blocking. Not a big enough deal to make a thread but wanted to share that it does happen and my browsing/subs are mostly tech/networking, politics and formula1

      • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I’m the same. I browse All and don’t remember the last time I saw any anime communities. I see porn occasionally, but it doesn’t bother me. When I find a community I like, I subscribe to it. If it’s a community I don’t like, I’ll block it. Once Lemmy grows more, I’ll probably just switch over to my subscribed feed.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      yeah, it doesn’t make sense to complain, but browsing ALL and blocking what you never wanna see again leaves you with lots of neat stuff you wouldn’t have found sticking to your subscribed communities.

      however, i wish lemmy had categories/tags for communities, so people could block or specificly browse everything anime or everything sports etc. it would be quite helpful.

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        leaves you with lots of neat stuff you wouldn’t have found sticking to your subscribed communities.

        Oh yeah, I can totally dig that, I had the trending communities at my subbed communities though, although I don’t see it popping up as often as it used to.

        however, i wish lemmy had categories/tags for communities, so people could block or specificly browse everything anime or everything sports etc. it would be quite helpful.

        I like Summit for Lemmy a lot because it let me create multi communities, so far I have one for gaming, one for retrogaming and other for handheld gaming, sadly Lemmy ain’t reddit yet (only the first two are fairly active).

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Lemmy needs customized feeds. You create a feed, You call it “Nintendo”. Then you create another catagory, “subscribed”. Then you open the subscribed catagory, and uncheck all the communities you’re subscribed to that relate to Nintendo.

        Then you open Nintendo, and uncheck all, then recheck all communities that DO relate to Nintendo.

        Now, if Nintendo has their direct, and it’s 11am because Japan isn’t in the same time zone as America, so you’re at work…you can browse “Subscribed” without being spoiled on the direct. Then, AFTER you get home, and watch the direct, you can browse by Subscribed + Nintendo, and you’ll see all your communities. Or browese by Nintendo, and ONLY see Nintendo communities that you’re subscribed to.

        Now do that for every catagory you subscribe to.

        You could browse by Nintendo + Pro Wrestling. Now you’re seeing a custom feed of JUST Nintendo related communities, and JUST Pro Wrestling communities mixed together in one feed. But you wouldn’t see your news communties, or your photography communities, or your porn communities.

        But if you browse by all, you should have 2 options, All-All, and All-Local. Which should both be self explainitory. But browsing by All, you shouldn’t get the right to complain that somethng exists. You can block it, and never see it again, but that doesn’t mean someone else won’t make a similiar community, and you can’t complain. Things exist. Deal with it.

        But we do need some more elaborate subscribe based feeds.

      • isaaclw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        This is what Im doing for now, also trying to subscribe to a bunch of stuff.

        But Im newbhear and still browse reddit some as I figure all this out.

        Now if only my favorite twitter followers would switch to mastadon…

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I’d suppose that, but so far all people that have replied to me say otherwise 😅

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I mean, I notice the furry subs when I browse by all…but we need MORE sexual fetish subs, not less. I don’t engage with the furry subs, but we NEED more porn community porn. You think twitter would have grown if they had blocked porn back in 2008? Just look at Tumblr. They banned porn, and the users banned Tumblr. I heard they tried to undo the goof, but it’s too late. Other platforms took their place in their absence.

      If you don’t like a fetish, block it, and move on. The internet is for porn.

  • darkstar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I browse all and sort by top month, I’ve seen 2 or 3 anime subs, blocked them, and haven’t seen anything since?

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Join a smaller instance. As long as members don’t subscribe to the anime communities, they won’t feed into the feed.

  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Your anime is not unique enough to not just be posted in one mega anime community. That’s easier to block. Probably has the same voice actors, too.

  • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
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    4 days ago

    Oh no, that terrible anime subs and content. Quick everyone post more fully qualified !links to more of these groups so i can avoid them, there’s only been a few in the thread so far

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          MentalEdge goes on 7 day vacation.

          You: “Hello, police? I think MentalEdge has been kidnapped or murdered. I haven’t seen any anime titties lately!”

          Police: “…what is going on now?”

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Yeah :D

          It’s a pity not everyone wants me around, but I’m not going anywhere, so complaints are quite pointless.

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 days ago

            Don’t let them get you down. I feel like everything I post has SOME downvotes. People called me mentally deranged because I made a post in the Fediverse community that what the fediverse needs overall is for celebrities to call the fediverse home, and bring their userbases with them.

            You know how you might see a celebrity say “Follow me at @CelebrityName”. Well right now, that username is universal. They want that same exact username on twitter, on youtube, on instagram. And I suggested that we need to have more of a profile system on the fediverse. So when you register MentalEdge on one fediverse platform, you’re registering the name MentalEdge. Nobody else could have that. And sure, you might be MentalEdge@Lemmy.World, but if someone were to come to Lemmy, and knew who MentalEdge was, they’d just search @MentalEdge. Then the search would find you MentalEdge@Lemmy.World, and maybe you signed up to pixelfed, and it finds that too. Because you’re the only MentalEdge.

            People ignored the concept, and instead said “WE DON’T NEED CELEBRITIES HERE!!! AHHHH OTHER PEOPLE WHO AREN’T US ARE AWFUL!!!”

            But, in kindergarten I had a rough first day of school. Kids made fun of me. And when I came home, my great aunt edna gave me advice that applied 36 years ago, and it applies today.

            “FUCK EM! FUCK THE WHOLE LOT OF EM’! THEY DON’T KNOW SHIT! I BET THEY POOP THE BED EVERYNIGHT!”

            Great advice then, great advice now.

              • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                4 days ago

                And like I replied there, when’s the last time a celebrity gave out their email address? They care more about the username brand that works across all platforms. Their publicist may know where to email them, but for general fans, they just put out a username like @Username. You never see Username@email.domain. And the reason is because it would be too easy to grab a duplicate email and impersonate them. Which was the whole point of the post. Right now I could register Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social and if someone is on an interface that they don’t see which instance you’re home to (such as how I don’t see your home instance right now), I could be you. I could say things you whole heartedly disagree with, and if people thought I was you, they would attribute you to saying such things. Maybe offensive things. Maybe posting offensive or illegal pictures. And now you are credited with having done that, despite never having done that.

                So the risk for a celebrity being cancelled is too high for them to migrate to an unproven platform if they can’t even control their own username. Thus they won’t come, and thus the fediverse as a whole stays small and unknown as a result.

                • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                  4 days ago

                  Right now I could register Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social and if someone is on an interface that they don’t see which instance you’re home to (such as how I don’t see your home instance right now), I could be you. I could say things you whole heartedly disagree with, and if people thought I was you, they would attribute you to saying such things. Maybe offensive things. Maybe posting offensive or illegal pictures. And now you are credited with having done that, despite never having done that.

                  I maintain a list of alt accounts in my bio. I don’t care that much about that, if those impersonators (implying they use my profile picture, otherwise it’s just another Blaze, I have two friends called John, they’re not impersonating each other, they’re their own distinct person) get spotted, their accounts will probably get removed, they aren’t mine.

                  But I’m not a celebrity.

                  Should we report @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world and get that account banned?

  • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Downvoted because this is true.

    Y’all watch too many Japanese car-toons, and the apparent age of the female characters is fucking questionable, and every time someone brings it up yous start bleating about projecting to try and excuse it

    Fucking weird, guys

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Considering the art style has big heads and eyes, and omits age-indicating facial details to the point that in some stuff character straight up don’t have noses, I always find it funny when people say adult anime characters look like 10-year-olds.

      Based on what, the way real people look?

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          MentalEdge literally keeps the anime communities alive. You have six posts.

          Such rage for something you can just Side Menu > Block Instance for.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It’s not just anime, but also (in my experience) music, games, and ai. They seem to feel that there needs to be a community for every. single. possible. sub-genre. 😞

    You can say the same for politics, memes, and many other genres for that matter. And I have no doubt there are those that are bothered by it too. Yes, we can all hide away under our local or subscribed feeds, but that’s a narrow-minded and xenophobic solution. We all should be able to scroll whatever feed, using whatever sort, we choose to use and not be assailed and harassed by these fervent die-hard (possibly ocd) “fans” of whatever genre du jour there happens to be.

    It’s a shame that Lemmy does not have a way to tag communities by genre. And it’s a shame most communities probably wouldn’t use it even if it were supported. It would not only help filtering out specific content, but conversely it would help with content discovery. Of course there is also any potential for abuse, because let’s face it, there are those that will just because they can. But I do t feel that’s worth not having a useful feature like tagging or whatever you want to call it.

    • missingno@fedia.io
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      4 days ago

      I should be able to be a diehard fan of niche fandoms and hobbies without being told “no, stop enjoying things”. What exactly do you expect people who like things to do, just not have communities for the things they like?

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        The first thing I expect of anybody is to read and comprehend the things they reply to.

        Nowhere in my comment did I say that people should stop creating communities. In fact, what I did say was that we should be able to categorize communities using tags. I even suggested that people. For example, using these tags to filter or find communities of interest.

        So yeah, there’s that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 days ago

      We all should be able to scroll whatever feed, using whatever sort, we choose to use and not be assailed and harassed by these fervent die-hard (possibly ocd) “fans” of whatever genre du jour there happens to be.

      If you don’t like specific communities, block them?