I’ve been using a 3rd party client to access posts on Lemmy. I loved the experience back when Reddit allowed 3rd party apps. But I felt the feed was a bit…one sided.
I figured it was just because I was new to Lemmy, but then I sorted posts by New.
Nothing but trans anime porn. It’s like the only people that came to Lemmy were the people that got kicked out of Reddit circles because all they could think about was trans anime porn.
Maybe I signed up on the wrong instance? But I don’t think that’s the problem.
How are so many people trying to treat Lemmy as a balanced alternative to Reddit?
What the fuck?!
Not sure what’s up with your feed, but mine is… not that.
OP’s comment history is full of antagonism and bad takes. So many of their comments have exclamation points!!! I have a feeling they’re a bit lost on things and/or they don’t want to admit to the means by which they are seeing this content that they claim to be repulsed by. Blocking is free, and I suggest doing to major sources of bad vibes.
Have your main account set to filter out NSFW to avoid that content. Also, there is absolutely no shortage of that content on reddit lmao. At least when I was there anyway.
You must be using the All Trans Anime Porn All the Time app.
I just use Firefox for Android and sort by New by default and I don’t recall seeing any trans anime porn. Ever.
You must be using the All Trans Anime Porn All the Time app.
Certified ATAPAtTApp moment
It’s been months since I blocked all the individual instances that post things like that, I never see it. But yeah not surprised it’s still there. Lemmy blocklists should be a thing, would make the new user experience much more endurable. Last I checked I have over 800 communities blocked and dont miss any of them.
Curious to see your list of blocked instances (and if you remember why for each one).
I’ve only blocked a couple, but I’ve seriously thought about many more.
Took me a while as I’m doing this on a phone but here are my blocked instances with reasons, and for your enjoyment, all my blocked communities (there are considerably fewer than 800 though)
Mostly I block things I have little interest in, foreign languages, nsfw, anime, bands, video games, religions, subcultures I’m not a part of. I generally don’t have any ill will toward them but have no need to see their posts. Some of these I’ve blocked after browsing c/all and seen one post. This blocklist has made c/all pleasantly readable for me. I’ve also got a few dozen users blocked but I’ll I’ll keep that list to myself.
Blocked Instances
mtgzone.com I dont play mtg
pawb.social not a furry
pawb.fun not a furry
feddit.it I don’t speak italian
lemmy.eco.br or portugese
jlai.lu or enough french to use this
yiffit.net again, not a furry
feddit.dk I dont speak enough german
fanaticus.social I dont remember what this one is but if its sports yeah that’s the reason
soccer.forum not big on soccer
lemmynsfw.com I dont use lemmy for porn
pornlemmy.com ditto
monero.town I am not a cryptocurrencist
lemmy.vg nor vegan
vegantheoryclub.org again, not vegan
veganism.social I eat plant based meals but meat is in there usually as a flavor enhancer and for added convenient protein
vegane.schule german and vegan, big nope from this lemmitor
lemmy.vegan.dev I need a certain amount of meat to code
social.vegan.im.it italian food is probably pretty good without meat but hey I’m not going to bass my whole personality around it
feddit.ro even romanians will look at you funny if you try to learn their language
szmer.info what even is this
awful.systems these dorks are mean
hilariouschaos.com these dorks are boring
dubvee.org no clue
ani.social I choose to socialize the bare minimum with the anime folks, sorry
Blocked Communities
Sex Meme Pit@lemmyf.uk
Peanuts@midwest.social
Superbowl
LEGO
Classic Wow@lemmy.ca
Dandadumber [MANGA READERS HERE]@ani.social
NFL@nfl.community
Tiddies + Gravity@ani.social
Low Quality Facts@lemmy.zip
Stardew Valley@lemm.ee
Rayven-Dev
Call Me Kevin
Catfight Arena@lemmy.sdf.org
Shitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.uhhoh.com
Livestream Fails
Music
[ARCHIVED] Garden Grooves@walledgarden.xyz
Satisfactory
Anime Videos@ani.social
Factorio
FFM Threesome
Kotaku@rss.ponder.cat
Overwatch Porn
Gonewild couples
Chelsea Charms: Stunningly Huge Boobs - The World’s Biggest Augmented Breasts
Nanashi Mumei
Touhou Art@ani.social
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal@midwest.social
All things Mother and EB
Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes@lemmy.zip
Aesthetic Miscellany
Hazbin Hotel@lemm.ee
Gonewild stories
THE FINALS@fedia.io
Nazposting!@feddit.online
Calvin and Hobbes
Bloom County@lemm.ee
Wings of fire
wings of fire fan club
The Official Unofficial Ashens Sublemmy
Nose Ears@lemm.ee
Squirrel Spotting Society@lemmy.sdf.org
[ARCHIVED] weedtime@walledgarden.xyz
hentai
Furry Captions
Slitterhead@lemmy.zip
TinyURL
christian stuff
Duolingo
Fighting Game Community
Los Angeles Lakers
grimdank
Inktober 2024@sh.itjust.works
Star Wars
DnD Homebrew
Xbox@lemmy.zip
Godot@programming.dev
AI Generated Images@sh.itjust.works
Jewish
Oglaf@midwest.social
Pokémon TCG Pocket@sh.itjust.works
NSFWCYOA
Colibri Wallet@programming.dev
Fun Loops ▶️@midwest.social
Helluva Boss
[ARCHIVED] Pokemon TCGM@walledgarden.xyz
Deadlock @sopuli.xyz
cute dogs, cats, and other animals@lemmy.ml
Boardgames
SpaceX@sh.itjust.works
No Americans Here
egg_irl — Memes about being trans people in denial and other eggy topics@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Life Insurance
Skywind
Kagurabachi@ani.social
League of Legends@lemm.ee
Reaction GIFs and Memes
LA Clippers
Album Art - Share your favourite music album cover
Puns@lemmy.zip
Dogs
She-Ra@lemmy.blahaj.zone
No Man’s Sky
Video game chats@sh.itjust.works
Board Games@sopuli.xyz
Rabbits
Vocaloid@ani.social
Pokémon TCG Pocket@crazypeople.online
Spiele - Brett, Gesellschaft, etc.@feddit.org
The Apothecary Diaries | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto@ani.social
Comics@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Boobies
Four’s Airship (NieR/Drakengard)@lemm.ee
The Expanse
Spy x Family@lemmy.ca
… okay thats the list
OP’s “karma”/reputation score, visible from Mbin instances, is at -1435. I think it’s safe to assume that OP does not intend to be taken seriously.
I make liberal use if the Lemmy feature of blocking users/communities/instances.
I noticed the same thing as you—so much kinky shit when browsing All. I mostly don’t care what gets people off but I don’t need to see it in my feed. Eventually, I found that it was easiest to block entire instances where that stuff is prevalent. It’s not like you’ll miss anything important.
Same with communities and users. If I know a community isn’t going to interest me, I block it from All. If a user bothers me enough that I recognize the name, I block them.
It’s just better this way. You’re not missing much by blocking. Your time and attention is better spent on the things that matter to you.
Honestly, it’s kind of obnoxious that you’re inundated with porn by default in “all”. I mean, it’s fine if people are into that, but it’s not necessarily what every user wants to deal with blocking when the are a new user. Some might just erroneously assume the whole platform is just a porn site and leave if that isn’t what they want. I have blocked a shitton of porn communities because I’m not interested in that, but there are a hell of a lot of them. I’m glad instance blocking became a thing because prior to that I had a zillion communities blocked.
Would just nice for the default to be different is all. I get why some people are immediately super turned off by using Lemmy because of stuff like that.
Again, I’m not trying to say porn is necessarily bad, but it’s a bit jarring when that’s not what you came here for and when it’s not what the platform is “advertised” as. It’s like if Grandma tries to join Facebook to stay connected to people but when she first logs in there’s just porn all over her feed. Obviously that doesn’t happen there. I’m just trying to paint a picture.
Does lemmy have a block limit? Reddit does. I hit it.
Mfw I’m finding out that the gay furry instance that is my home instance has less porn than ops instance
I’ve thought about blocking the instance you’re on. Lots of garbage from that instance.
Mine isn’t that way at all. My feed is always set to “All”, and it’s a diverse range of discussions.
I’d imagine the typical Lemmy user to be an American college/university student. I haven’t personally noticed any trans leaning in the content here but anime/hentai definitely is disporpotionately represented.
A lot of Germans and Russians here
Have you tried not subscribing to those communities?
The main difference with Reddit is Reddit excludes all NSFW and quarantined subs from the all feed, Lemmy doesn’t. So if your instance federates with porn instances yeah, the all feed is gonna suck.
It’s easy to filter out
Half of reddit is either porn, RWNJs, or both
My home feed is “all”, sorted by “hot”(weird i know but its a good way to find communities to sub to). I dont usually see nsfw, but I have seen some trans memes, sfw yuri and a instance dedicated to middrift which is kind of nsfw but has no parts showing. If i dont like what im seeing i just block the instance. But it hasnt happened alot. Mostly just news articles and current events though.
Your feed is what you click on OP….
