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I dont like memes, they waste brain space and time. How can I prevent the home feed from being flooded by them? I block one, and 5 more show up.

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[–] Moogosa@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Subscribe to the communities you enjoy, and change default view to subscriptions instead of all. At least that’s what I do.

[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This, the all feed is a stream of garbage,porn and spam at times.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

where is all that porn people keep warning me about?

my all feed has some garbage but its squeaky clean garbage.

[–] Volkditty@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Go to your settings, you probably have NSFW filtering on.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

You go to them hit the 3 dots and hit "block community"

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Default to subscribed communities views.

[–] peereboominc@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

What I do is two things

  • Go to the All view and block each community that has memes.
  • subscribe to commutes that you like.

This ways, all your views are meme-free.

Bonus tip for finding new commuties: create a new account and go to your All view. Every post you see, check if you like the community. If you like it, subscribe to it on your normal account and then block it on your new account. The new account works kind of like check off system. Each community that you made a decision on (subscribe or don't care) will no longer be visible on the new account. This way, other communities that are smaller will also be revealed.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I block one, and 5 more show up.

There aren't as many as you'd think, if you block memes@lemmy.ml, lemmyshitposts@lemmy.world and 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone you've already blocked 90% of meme posts.

[–] classic@fedia.io 0 points 8 months ago

Also, block that thepicardmaneuver guy

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

break the rules and get yourself banned from the communities. then you'll never see them again.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, Lemmy did you wrong with the embed. Here you go.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

↑↑↓↓←→←→BA

[–] dukethorion@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You forgot to press Start.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Obviously, you press Select before Start. It's dangerous to go alone.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 8 months ago

I fixed it for you (click it, seriously):
nooooooo button

[–] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

tbh im in the same boat. i just keep on blockin them and make use of subscriptions

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago
[–] late_night@sopuli.xyz 0 points 8 months ago
[–] sodalite@slrpnk.net -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

not memes for me but anime. there's no way to block whole instances i don't wanna see. if i don't wanna see ani.social on my feed at all i have to block every community on the instance, which is just not possible.

memes though is gonna be hard for you because a lot of people use meme formats to communicate in any topic. the science side of lemmy memes about science stuff. the programmers meme about computer stuff. but that's not all they do, there's more than just memes, there's actual discussion too. to completely get rid of memes and never see them on a lemmy feed again is gonna be an impossible task.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

there’s no way to block whole instances

Yes there is. If your instance is running a 0.19.x version, then you'll have instance blocks as an option in your profile settings page

[–] sodalite@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

omg you the real mvp

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 8 months ago