How is a fediverse user supposed to find communities? I can’t find a way to search across the fediverse, which pretty much kills the concept IMO. I was browsing All via Lemmy.world - Mlem - iOS and my feed is half anime porn, with some pictures depicting underage and others not blurred as NSFW.

Am I going about the fediverse all wrong? How do y’all deal with this? Right now the fediverse seems like a glitchy, overcomplicated 4chan.

    • Rooki@lemmy.worldM
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      Someone should create a masterlist of nsfw communities and create anotherscript that blocks them lul

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        Being able to block instances as a user (not defed but just hide all their communities) would be helpful

        Theres a few specific ones I am constantly blocking communities from (nsfw/porn, anime, furry, sports)

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    My current fix is just subscribing to a lot of communities and using all less. The other option is to uncheck nsfw but that of course blocks non nudity stuff too.

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      I do the same. Back on Reddit I always used r/all, but here that just doesn’t look to be viable at the moment.

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        Maybe they can do something similar to reddit which is a popular tab by default. Basically just all with the nsfw and fringe stuff removed.

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          Yeah of course, but with how messed up the filter options are on lemmy right now all sorts of stuff show up. At least with r/all it had to be popular.

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    Being able to block entire instances is a feature that I’m surprised isn’t in the works. It would be simpler to block 2 instances than to block a hundred communities.

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      It is on kbin. Go to kbin.social/d/[instanceaddress], then in the righthand column is a block symbol, exactly like blocking a magazine or a user

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      Do you use an app to browse kbin on ios? I couldn’t get wefwef to take my Kbin account.

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        On iOS, you can just use Safari, and “add kbin to home screen.” This creates a shortcut to kbin on your home screen, but it also allows you to use kbin like an app. The website has an amazing UI through safari that feels like a native app you purchased in the App Store. I’ll attach a screenshot to this comment for you to see.

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          Thank you — this is what I’ve been doing for the past couple of days. I still think there’s a need for an app… this browser stuff is glitchy. It logs me out automatically, I can’t add multiple accounts, my keyboard loads all funky sometimes, and media needs to be manually expanded.

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    Thanks all for the search suggestions! Will play around with them when I get some free time.

    Does anybody know a good way to search for a community within an instance? Let’s say i find c/fake community on a non-world Lemmy instance. How do I pull that up from my account on Lemmy.World so i can subscribe to it?

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    I’ve been using Connect for Lemmy for a few days now and it helped me a lot with finding instances I wanted to follow.

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    Personally I just use the search function at the top of the website or in Memmy to look for keywords and hope for a match.

    Also as others have said you can block NSFW stuff which should help.