There’s not much left after adding everything after linuxmemes!
So wtf do you even like?
Judging by their post and comment history, their interests are very, very narrow
In which case simple search and subscribe works well.
Unfortunately, I still have to use Reddit for stuff like r/RISCV, r/nattyorjuice, and r/NVDA_stock, so the only thing I come to Lemmy for (hopefully only right now!) is memes.
I mean if you start a RISCV community on Lemmy I’d show up. I’m sure a bunch of people would; seems like a logical extension of the FOSS movement to the hardware world.
so the only thing I come to Lemmy for … is memes.
But you’re blocking so many cool meme communities.
There’s a community for NVIDIA stock? Tf do they even talk about?
So… just subscribe to the ones you like and only browse Subscribed. Probably easier to do a whitelist than a blacklist since apparently you hate 80% of the content here.
Should probably be calling it “Allow List” and “Block/Deny List”. They’re more appropriate terms.
These aren’t even racial terms, they were used for unionized vs. ununionized workers. Maybe we should be working on not calling people by color names. Not being able to use colors to describe things in the world because it is racially-adjacent is getting a bit difficult
That’s actually not true at all.
The word relates to “Labor relations” by which it means the 17th century where there was widespread slavery of overwhelmingly black people by white colonists.
Blacklist referred to people who are untrustworthy, suspicious, to be excluded or avoided.
And white being good and trustworthy.
The term “blacklist” contains the word “black”, which can unintentionally reinforce negative racial stereotypes. Associating “black” with something undesirable or harmful can inadvertently perpetuate harmful biases and contribute to systematic racism.
While the term “whitelist” may not appear as directly problematic, it reinforces a hierarchy with “white” as the preferred or privileged category. Such implications can subtly influence our thinking and conserve racial biases.
And that’s not too mention: Blackmail Black sheep Black Market
So no, its not that you can’t call something by it’s colour. But associating something bad with black and white with good harmful.
So, we’re destined to make new words for colors because all the color words we have now are taboo?
Blackmail was used in England and Scotland to describe money paid by tenant farmers to a chieftan: https://www.history.com/news/where-did-the-word-blackmail-come-from
Black sheep literally comes from black sheep. That one is really obvious… https://www.etymonline.com/word/black sheep
Black market was more associated with anarchists that used black as their color than actual black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market
The goal here shouldn’t be changing peoples’ view on the concepts of white/black. We need to stop people from using those words to describe people. People (outside rare cases) are not BLACK or WHITE or YELLOW or RED, or… how about we use actual people names for people?
White and black as colors and concepts are too important to have to tippy-toe around. If something is black, I should be able to say so without getting internet-spanked. Etymology means something regardless of what anybody thinks. You can’t just make something racist because it has a color word in it.
Can everybody just stop looking for things to be mad about for a hot minute?
All your references confirm what I’m saying.
Blackmail literally speaks to what I’m saying, ie. Black Market ie. Slavery (including after abolition). Dirty. Lesser. Unusable. Prostitution. People trafficking.
Yes, how about we actually use the names of people.
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I think those who refuse to acknowledge racial biases and undertones are racist, yes.
I got you OP - my blocklist is now 100s of communities. But I much rather browse all and discover new things, rather than sub to a couple specific communities and never discover anything new.
I wouldn’t call it mildly infuriating though. Its just how I choose to browse
Same. I tend to block all the local communities. Like tbh I don’t really care what’s happening in like Boston
You should just delete your Lemmy app and exclusively watch Disney movies and play with your legos
Stop trying to tempt me into a healthy lifestyle
Just keep an eye on your marshmallow intake, we don’t want you getting the diabetes
Marshmallows are my comfort food to distract me from falling back into my Lemmy addiction.
Just don’t start melting em down like those mellowhead junkies down on 3rd. I care about you too much homie
Thanks, that means a lot to me.
You blocked all of Lemmy
I mean that’s the point of self-curated feed. Do you want an algorithm or a team of strangers to find and curate what you should consume?
or maybe facebook, instagram, twitter is more up your ally.
Most downvoted post on Lemmy?
Lol. Is everyone like, “noo, my community isn’t boring, you’re boring! :'(”
A couple on there that I missed … on my include list that is. Thanks.
Some of those have one post a week on a good week, so yer obviously trolling.
I think Xitter / “Truth” Social is probably more your scene.
Yeah, no. Just because one isn’t far left doesn’t mean they are far right. There is a middle ground you know.
Not to mention truth social is kind of toxic
OP is also blocking centrist or unaligned pages
It is all very much subjective
I think you mean subjective, you’re also objectively wrong.
Came here since the Reddit 3rd party app fiasco. Initially I blocked a load of non English language communities which at the time seemed to fill the All feed. Kept adding to my subscribed communities list then in my app (Voyager after Liftoff stopped being developed) blocked a load of keywords, essentially Trump/US politics related.
Now my Home (subscriptions) feed has some great content. I check out All from time to time to see if I can subscribe to more communities.
Niche communities are still lacking but hopefully that improves over time.
Those sure are some rookie block numbers.
I don’t really get why you need to block communities. I block users but that is because they comment and post about communism on every single community. Luckily there are only a handful of users who do this.
I do wish Lemmy was a little more politically neutral. I just try to ignore the political stuff. I also choose a instance that isn’t focused on politics.
why? because you don’t want to see certain things in your feed. people come hwre for various things. some people come here to mentally relax, so they don’t want to hear about negative topics like wars or people Fighting all the time. other people just are not interested in certain topics or posts but have them flood their feed.
example: i come here for relaxing mentally and to see posts about topics I’m interested in. so I don’t want to see negative stuff like causalities in wars, hearing people complain what bad things they experienced this day, what stuff has gone wrong in their life and other negative stuff. another example is lemmynsfw where I don’t want to see males showing their genitals to me since I’m interested in women, not guys. so i block communitys who are about such things.
short: because people don’t want ro see certain stuff. that’s why there is a block function. lemmy without a block function wouldn’t be useable since you get flooded with tons of posts you aren’t interested in by default without any blocks.
I personally just don’t subscribe to communities overrun by communists. I am not saying the ability to block communities is bad, I just don’t use it myself
I do it so that I can browse c/all too
There are also the communities like worldnews@lemmy.ml that seem okay at first but then you realize the mods are tankies.
As a rule of thumb avoid Lemmy[.]ml
Generally a good idea but they still have many of the biggest communities.
Those are rookie numbers.
My community block list is about 450 items long and the one for users is even longer.
Blocking is the boring way. Shit post until they ban you.
I do nothing but shit post and nobody’s banned me yet. A whole lot of folks have blocked me though.
Edit: I take it back, I was banned from shower thoughts it seems, yesterday, but not a lemmy.world site ban. The admins didn’t like kbin doing something it seems. Strange.
Banned
roguetrick from the community Showerthoughts
reason: This account is currently sending large amounts of unusual activities to Lemmy.World. This community ban is an attempt to mitigiate the issue without blocking kbin.social entirely. The issue needs to be addressed on kbin.social prior to us being able to lift this community ban.We don’t get messages on kbin so I wasn’t notified.
