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submitted 6 hours ago by NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I have no real interest in anime. As far as I can remember, I've never clicked on any anime related links on Lemmy, but it seems like every other post I see is about anime, a lot of them have to do with someone or something called Moe. I keep blocking them, but more show up. How do I stop it?

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[-] felsiq@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

i had the same problem with all these “-moe” communities, and found out piefed has a great solution. from the web ui you can add a filter, and block any community with the word moe in one go rather than playing whack a mole every time a new one pops up or blocking a whole instance full of people

[-] remon@ani.social 1 points 27 minutes ago

Instance blocking doesn't block the people on that instance, just the communities.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Post more stuff to push it out of the feed

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

It would be nice if sub's could be marked with content tags which could then be filtered

Tags could be subject matter, like anime, but also language, or region.

This way I could setup filters for "my region or country only" and "only English and Spanish sub's" or "no regional sub's except Canada" and "no anime" to block every anime sub

[-] schwim@piefed.zip 92 points 6 hours ago

There's no algorithm here so clicking on something doesn't affect what you see afterward.

If you're browsing "All", then you're seeing posts from everywhere. The anime is a large part of that but you can make all of it disappear with a few blocked communities as the content really only shows up in a few of them. Once you've put them on your block list, you won't see any of that content in your "all" feed.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I mean its definitely not just a few. Probably >50 anime/manga/lewd communities. I know because im subscribed to half of em. Would be nice if lemmy got community groups that you can bulk follow/block.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

In piefed they are under feeds. It works really well. Hopefully Lemmy can get the same soon?

Ex: https://piefed.social/f/fediverse

[-] decolo@piefed.social 6 points 4 hours ago

I wish there was a 'negative feed'. There's not enough content to just subscribe to the biking feed, for instance. I either hyperfixate on something or forget about it entirely, so I'm not really able to pace myself to wait 2 weeks for a topic feed to refill.

If I could unsubscribe from all anime character art but keep using /all, that would be perfect.

[-] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 39 minutes ago

I want All, but not like All, just like Some, but like, I don’t have to tell anyone what Some is and the Some is listed as All and it automatically updates the Some to be the Some that I want in All today based on my mood without telling anyone.

[-] Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 hours ago

Is that different from blocking communities?

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago

Not gonna lie thats what I use RSS for. I have a couple for communities that are super interesting that I want a backlog. But yeah I'm almost never on all.

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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

I used to find exactly that, but I blocked the ani.social instance and its barely any now.

Go in settings, tap Blocks and at the bottom, add a blocked instance: ani.social

Occasionally someone makes an unsavoury community elsewhere, so I block those when they come up - tap through to the community and tap the sidebar and you can tap the Block Community button.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Yeah I tend to block the anime and "*moe" communities and instances. There's too much being posted, and it's a lot of the time border-line CSAM. I confronted someone about it—one poster who consistently only posts anime content featuring children in semi-lewd situations, positions, and clothing.

He basically did the next more adult version of putting his thumbs in his ears, waving his fingers back and forth and chanting "nah nah na-nah nah" at me. They weren't contesting being a paedo at all, when confronted. Just replying with complete nonsense, troll comments.

So I just block. 🤷‍♂️ Fuck 'em.

[-] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 35 points 5 hours ago

block the whole ani.social domain. there's no button for it but you can do it in your profile settings. settings -> Blocks

[-] missingno@fedia.io 3 points 3 hours ago

Caveat with this is that blocking entire instances means you're also blocking users, not just communities, and may miss posts in non-anime communities.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 hours ago

Was there an update I missed? Last I knew blocking instances left the users visible. It only blocked communities and their posts hosted on the instance.

[-] AskewLord@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

it depends on how blocks work on your instance/client. Piefed will block everything from an instance, lemmy clients will only block posts.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 10 points 5 hours ago

That's what I had to do too, I'm not against anime in general but this instance is full of sexualized content.

[-] Duchess@piefed.linenoise.vip 2 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for the tip :3

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 47 points 6 hours ago

There is no feed, it's: your subscriptions, and everything else. If you stick to your subscriptions, you won't see what you don't want.

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's mostly just a couple users. I just blocked them and then almost never see it.

I usually try not to block users if I can help it, but it was the only viable option when they spin up a new community for every genre of borderline CSAM that someone posts to pixiv.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours ago

Block the communities not the posters as the posters change.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

Communities isn't enough, there's a lot of unhinged accounts that constantly make new communities.

You can block entire instances, that's the only way I got rid of it. Whatever instances keep getting new communities of that shit to spam, just block the whole thing.

[-] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

there's hundreds of them, new communities keep being made

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

And the rest of us have to do that with every community type we don't like. I for one hate seeing so many redundant news and local city communities.

Why does bumfuck nowhere Ohio need communities in 3 different servers all run by different people not even on those servers?

[-] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 0 points 1 hour ago

Sub to coms/mags you like, then browse subscribed.

[-] ClipperDefiance@piefed.social 14 points 5 hours ago

How do I stop it?

altr

From what I understand, unlike most corporate social media, ActivityPub based software, such as Lemmy, doesn't have an algorithm. By that I mean that it doesn't track what your interests are based on what you interact with for the purpose of farming engagement. Basically, you're seeing a lot of anime stuff because it's what people are actually posting and not because your corporate overlords are shoving it down your throat.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Lemmy has some sort of algorithm even if it isn't personalized.

Before I blocked all the Moe communities, I was getting Moe with 1 upvote at the top of lemmy.world's homepage but no 3dprinting posts. Yet if I went to the 3dprinting community, there would be a new post with a hundred upvotes. It's that way with many other communities too.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

The default sort prioritises posts from within the last few minutes above posts that are hours old with far more votes. If one anime fan posts a handful of things right when another checks their feed, there'll be anime posts at the top for half an hour or so, as they've got the most votes per minute.

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[-] Sergio@piefed.social 4 points 4 hours ago

A lot of good advice here. Making Feeds on Piefed works too. Ex:

[-] queeradjacent@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago

I must have blocked a dozen fucking Moe communities so far 🙄

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

There's a particularly obnoxious Moe fan that posts on a multitude of separate accounts instances and communities to insure his posts are seen by everyone.

When I expressed my concern that some of his Moe was almost anime child porn because it featured underaged girls in explicit poses, he said it was his right to promote those pictures.

It took several weeks to block every moe community because of him.

Unfortunately, it's the only way to stop it. Every time you see one, click the community and block it.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

BET you it's the same guy I ran into, as I described here:

https://lemmy.world/comment/26545844

Edit: kiri@ani.social (I have them tagged as anime paedo).

[-] lokalhorst@feddit.org 8 points 5 hours ago

Only browse all to find new communities, browse subscribed instead. Block communities and posters.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

I had the same problem but with tankies. Blocking Lemmy.ml fixed the problem.

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The problem with anime is that they make new communities all the time about the latest thing or so. So you can't really block communities and expect that to make anime disappear. And as others have said, blocking users also doesn't help as they also keep changing.

So what's left? Block entire instances that seem to be mostly anime. That's somewhere in your settings. Or stick to your subscribed feed. You can change the default feed also in your settings.

And to clear up one misconception: Lemmy has no way of measuring your interest in topics and doesn't track what links you click. The "everything" feed is just a combination of what everybody on Lemmy posts.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 5 hours ago

I ended up blocking each new community.

[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 hours ago

Whenever I make a new account here I block all anime and sports communities.

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I've seen tons of anime but what sports communities are you referring to? The only ones I've seen aren't active at all

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

Can't speak for the previous poster, but I've blocked a lot of (non-American) football and Formula 1 racing comms.

[-] remon@ani.social 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You can just export/import your account settings (including your blocklist) when making a new one.

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[-] remon@ani.social 11 points 6 hours ago

You could try blocking the entire ani.social instance, that should get most of them.

[-] AskewLord@piefed.social 4 points 5 hours ago

because lemmy is funny of anime nerds.

block the communities.

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