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

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 76 points 6 months ago (5 children)

?

I don't see any anime subs by default just browsing the lemmy.world all page when sorted by hot, active, scaled, or new. So what exactly are you doing, and where do I sign up?

[–] leftzero 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Seriously, I would love to see anime communities, but I don't think I've ever seen one... Lemmy for me seems to be 99% US politics, 0.99% LLM bros trying to sell their scams, 0.01% other posts, of which about 0.01% might actually be interesting... 😐

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've had to block a lot of anime subs. It was a problem for a while, but now I hardly see any.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It comes and goes in waves I believe. There was a time when you’d see a wave of Moe themed communities. The same has happened for music, and ai too. If you haven’t seen it, or don’t recall, then count yourself lucky.

[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yes, OP's post is unpopular.

I would also like to sign up for Anime news and updates.

Please lmk how to do this.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

For grins just now I scrolled through ten (10) pages on "all" (i.e. including federated and not just local lemmy.world posts) and sorted by "hot" (the default).

I got one MurderMoe post, one ChainsawFolk post, and one TouhouProject post.

...And about ten linuxmemes posts, I didn't even count how many politics posts, several TenForward posts, like five Lemmy Shitposts entries, quite a few News and World news, and three inscrutable posts in Arabic despite by content language being set to English.

Barely a single pair of anime tiddies among the whole lot. What a drag.

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

This has been my experience. Not complaining tbh but yeah when people complain about how they see "so much x" I begin to wonder if the rage-algo kicked in

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

You might try ani.social instance for more anime.

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[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 59 points 6 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (9 children)

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)

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[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes. My block list is YUGE.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

this is how i manage it, people say use subscribed but that shit blocks you in. fedi needs people posting across communities to liven it up

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[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They chill until they post sexy pictures of 16 year old characters.

Then you post the age of the character in the post. That more fun than blocking.

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[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'm more concerned about the huge number of posts involving politics in my app.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 10 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I'm literally here to complain about politics and see anime shit.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I miss the 2000’s, when people were a little bit ashamed to admit they like anime. Now like half the people on the internet literally have anime profile pictures. It’s weird as fuck.

It wouldn’t even annoy me so bad if I didn’t constantly get targeted for anime related advertising. I can’t stand anime. Why does my algorithm think I want anime things? I will never buy a big titted anime figurine, and just seeing one makes me curse the gods for giving me sight.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why does my algorithm think I want anime things?

Lemmy shows everything to everyone except if you block the communities.

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[–] sag@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Block ani.social or @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz. You can block me too because I post on !nokotan@ani.social.

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[–] databender@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

For a second I wasn't sure if I had posted this and just didn't remember it

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anime and odd sexual fetish subs. And whatever this furry stuff is

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Wait where are you seeing all the sports content? Any sport communities I browse have only a handful of regulars knocking about (don't get me wrong, I'm glad of them, but it's not quite the same as Reddit)

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[–] hitagi@ani.social 10 points 6 months ago

This is the dream.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 months 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?

[–] missingno@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (6 children)
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[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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