There are too many damn anime communities on Lemmy

?

I don't see any anime subs by default just browsing the lemmy.world all page when sorted by hot, active, scaled, or new. So what exactly are you doing, and where do I sign up?

Seriously, I would love to see anime communities, but I don't think I've ever seen one... Lemmy for me seems to be 99% US politics, 0.99% LLM bros trying to sell their scams, 0.01% other posts, of which about 0.01% might actually be interesting... 😐
- Futa
  Yiff
  Hentai
  Moe
  Fur
  
  Have fun with searches
I've had to block a lot of anime subs. It was a problem for a while, but now I hardly see any.
- Yes, blocking something you don't want to see usually results in seeing fewer of that thing.
- I had to do this for US politics but I don't recall when I last saw an anime related post.
Check out ani.social and go from there.

Or just look at my post history.
It comes and goes in waves I believe. There was a time when you’d see a wave of Moe themed communities. The same has happened for music, and ai too. If you haven’t seen it, or don’t recall, then count yourself lucky.
- Oh, they never stopped. I'm still posting regularly to all of them, but I set up all the ones I wanted, so if you blocked them you wont have seen any new ones pop up in a while.
Yes, OP's post is unpopular.

I would also like to sign up for Anime news and updates.

Please lmk how to do this.
- For grins just now I scrolled through ten (10) pages on "all" (i.e. including federated and not just local lemmy.world posts) and sorted by "hot" (the default).
  
  I got one MurderMoe post, one ChainsawFolk post, and one TouhouProject post.
  
  ...And about ten linuxmemes posts, I didn't even count how many politics posts, several TenForward posts, like five Lemmy Shitposts entries, quite a few News and World news, and three inscrutable posts in Arabic despite by content language being set to English.
  
  Barely a single pair of anime tiddies among the whole lot. What a drag.
- You might try ani.social instance for more anime.
- There is a post about anime communities on [email protected]

What is mental for me is that people browse the ALL feed and then complain about what it shows... I feel crazy only browsing my subbed communities all the time lol.

What's crazy to me is that I browse all and have very little blocked and I don't see the huge amounts of whatever the posts are complaining about (except if the complaint is about US politics). Rarely see more than 1 or 2 anime related posts in about 2 communities. Almost never see porn of any kind; let alone furry stuff and I'm on an instance meant for it.

Makes me wonder if they're just getting a bug that some apps have where it just keeps repeating the same 5 posts as you scroll instead of correctly updating. That was the biggest issue I had with Connect and Liftoff.
- I'm the same. I browse All and don't remember the last time I saw any anime communities. I see porn occasionally, but it doesn't bother me. When I find a community I like, I subscribe to it. If it's a community I don't like, I'll block it. Once Lemmy grows more, I'll probably just switch over to my subscribed feed.
- I ran across a bunch of anime and weird fucking sexual anime pics until blocking. Not a big enough deal to make a thread but wanted to share that it does happen and my browsing/subs are mostly tech/networking, politics and formula1
- Hmm yeah, definitely complainers should expand in what their setup is.
yeah, it doesn't make sense to complain, but browsing ALL and blocking what you never wanna see again leaves you with lots of neat stuff you wouldn't have found sticking to your subscribed communities.

however, i wish lemmy had categories/tags for communities, so people could block or specificly browse everything anime or everything sports etc. it would be quite helpful.
- This is what Im doing for now, also trying to subscribe to a bunch of stuff.
  
  But Im newbhear and still browse reddit some as I figure all this out.
  
  Now if only my favorite twitter followers would switch to mastadon...
- leaves you with lots of neat stuff you wouldn't have found sticking to your subscribed communities.
  
  Oh yeah, I can totally dig that, I had the trending communities at my subbed communities though, although I don't see it popping up as often as it used to.
  
  however, i wish lemmy had categories/tags for communities, so people could block or specificly browse everything anime or everything sports etc. it would be quite helpful.
  
  I like Summit for Lemmy a lot because it let me create multi communities, so far I have one for gaming, one for retrogaming and other for handheld gaming, sadly Lemmy ain't reddit yet (only the first two are fairly active).
- I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Lemmy needs customized feeds. You create a feed, You call it "Nintendo". Then you create another catagory, "subscribed". Then you open the subscribed catagory, and uncheck all the communities you're subscribed to that relate to Nintendo.
  
  Then you open Nintendo, and uncheck all, then recheck all communities that DO relate to Nintendo.
  
  Now, if Nintendo has their direct, and it's 11am because Japan isn't in the same time zone as America, so you're at work......you can browse "Subscribed" without being spoiled on the direct. Then, AFTER you get home, and watch the direct, you can browse by Subscribed + Nintendo, and you'll see all your communities. Or browese by Nintendo, and ONLY see Nintendo communities that you're subscribed to.
  
  Now do that for every catagory you subscribe to.
  
  You could browse by Nintendo + Pro Wrestling. Now you're seeing a custom feed of JUST Nintendo related communities, and JUST Pro Wrestling communities mixed together in one feed. But you wouldn't see your news communties, or your photography communities, or your porn communities.
  
  But if you browse by all, you should have 2 options, All-All, and All-Local. Which should both be self explainitory. But browsing by All, you shouldn't get the right to complain that somethng exists. You can block it, and never see it again, but that doesn't mean someone else won't make a similiar community, and you can't complain. Things exist. Deal with it.
  
  But we do need some more elaborate subscribe based feeds.
All is how I browsed reddit, so it's how I browse Lemmy too. Like others have said, it allows you to find new communities, and is a pleasant experience once you filter out all the trouble communities and instances.

And TBF, Lemmy doesn't have default communities and I'm too lazy/ADHD to subscribe to any of them.
- That is fair, browsing my subbed subreddits for more than 10 years was my way to go for Reddit (Reddit was my replacement for Feedly, basically, so I am used to curating my stuff).
  
  Maybe that is why, aside from the APIcalypse I don't have a grudge against Reddit, and I missed some huge drama shit and toxic bs that you'd find in r/All (spam, bots and reposts too).
How few interests do you have and how active are the communities? If I did just my subbed communities all the time it would be 2 day old politics and comedy subs with last post 2+ weeks ago.

I guess maybe you don't browse much or you've got a much more active set of core subs.

(Maybe some of that unavoidable anime and femboy content IDK)
- I follow more than 800 communities, I never finish up my backlog feed 🤣 (but I do see a lot of repeated content for sure).
- Why do you want to browse stuff that you have zero interest in? I imagine it to be a massive waste of time.
  
  I'd prefer to view only the communities I've subbed to and see that there is no new contributions than look at stuff I have no interest in because I can turn off Lemmy and do something else with my day.
I like browsing all / scaled to find new community 🫠
- Well, that is nice the trending communities community used to do that for me though.
No, the majority probably does as you do
- I'd suppose that, but so far all people that have replied to me say otherwise 😅

Oh no, that terrible anime subs and content. Quick everyone post more fully qualified !links to more of these groups so i can avoid them, there's only been a few in the thread so far

You can straight up just stalk my post history ;D
- You pop up so often I'm surprised when your not around.

Yes. My block list is YUGE.

this is how i manage it, people say use subscribed but that shit blocks you in. fedi needs people posting across communities to liven it up
- fedi needs people posting across communities to liven it up
  
  Curious coming from someone with 0 posts.
  
  But yes, we do need more people

I browse by All, and rarely see them anymore. I think my instance and community blocking strategy must be working.

This person curates their feed ⬆️
- How can I achieve this?

I'm more concerned about the huge number of posts involving politics in my app.

I'm literally here to complain about politics and see anime shit.
- "And I'm already out of anime shit."
- Too bad I'm not 😔
I'm more worried about the slow increase in toxic car posts. If I wanted that Id use Facebook more
- Pro or against cars? I thought that Lemmy was against cars, and Facebook pro?
I recommend to block them too except if you are interested in that

They chill until they post sexy pictures of 16 year old characters.

Then you post the age of the character in the post. That more fun than blocking.

Maybe slap some quotes on sexy
So that takes, what, 3 posts?

Block ani.social or @[email protected]. You can block me too because I post on [email protected].

I do post a lot of non-anime stuff, too.

Like [email protected] and more recently [email protected].
- I know.
- Love the moomins one!
But then they would lose [email protected]

For a second I wasn't sure if I had posted this and just didn't remember it

This is the dream.

Anime and odd sexual fetish subs. And whatever this furry stuff is

I mean, I notice the furry subs when I browse by all......but we need MORE sexual fetish subs, not less. I don't engage with the furry subs, but we NEED more porn community porn. You think twitter would have grown if they had blocked porn back in 2008? Just look at Tumblr. They banned porn, and the users banned Tumblr. I heard they tried to undo the goof, but it's too late. Other platforms took their place in their absence.

If you don't like a fetish, block it, and move on. The internet is for porn.
- You know about lemmynsfw.com, right?
- I can understand what you’re saying, and I absolutely do ban tons of the weird fetish ones. They are just never ending lol. Guess I could just move to an instance where they have guardrails up.
- Dude I got ya, I'll post some.

Try sports now..

Wait where are you seeing all the sports content? Any sport communities I browse have only a handful of regulars knocking about (don't get me wrong, I'm glad of them, but it's not quite the same as Reddit)
- With sports it is more annoying because they tend to come in through bursts for very specific communities, like individual sports teams. Blocking each sports team community one at a time is like playing whack a mole.
  
  It isn't that they are overwhelming the All - Hot feed all the time, but there are bursts where they do.
- There is a post about sport communities on [email protected]
- I've been getting a lot of formula 1 and WWF lately, sorting by "all", "active", and "new." I just keep scrolling.
- I only browse new, but anything sports related gets insta banned for me.

I miss the 2000’s, when people were a little bit ashamed to admit they like anime. Now like half the people on the internet literally have anime profile pictures. It’s weird as fuck.

It wouldn’t even annoy me so bad if I didn’t constantly get targeted for anime related advertising. I can’t stand anime. Why does my algorithm think I want anime things? I will never buy a big titted anime figurine, and just seeing one makes me curse the gods for giving me sight.

Lemmy doesn't have an algorithm. Everyone gets the exact same feed, and you curate what you see using subs and blocks.
- Which is why I use Lemmy
- Except I think your instance affects what you see. Not all communities and instances are replicated everywhere.
Why does my algorithm think I want anime things?

Lemmy shows everything to everyone except if you block the communities.
- Lemmy is like the only social media I have that doesn’t try to fist fuck anime down my throat strangely enough. I block them when I see them tho so maybe that’s why
I don't mind anime but it's multiple instances per anime and they're endless. Also I didn't wanna bring it up but so many of them are sexualized and weird
- Dude anime stories, I’ll like read about it on tv tropes and be like “oh that’s a good story I’ll try it” and then it’s like infantilized women who are also sexualized in disturbing ways constantly instead, and the cool story idea kind of gets obliterated by it.

It’s not just anime, but also (in my experience) music, games, and ai. They seem to feel that there needs to be a community for every. single. possible. sub-genre. 😞

You can say the same for politics, memes, and many other genres for that matter. And I have no doubt there are those that are bothered by it too. Yes, we can all hide away under our local or subscribed feeds, but that’s a narrow-minded and xenophobic solution. We all should be able to scroll whatever feed, using whatever sort, we choose to use and not be assailed and harassed by these fervent die-hard (possibly ocd) “fans” of whatever genre du jour there happens to be.

It’s a shame that Lemmy does not have a way to tag communities by genre. And it’s a shame most communities probably wouldn’t use it even if it were supported. It would not only help filtering out specific content, but conversely it would help with content discovery. Of course there is also any potential for abuse, because let’s face it, there are those that will just because they can. But I do t feel that’s worth not having a useful feature like tagging or whatever you want to call it.

We all should be able to scroll whatever feed, using whatever sort, we choose to use and not be assailed and harassed by these fervent die-hard (possibly ocd) “fans” of whatever genre du jour there happens to be.

If you don't like specific communities, block them?
I should be able to be a diehard fan of niche fandoms and hobbies without being told "no, stop enjoying things". What exactly do you expect people who like things to do, just not have communities for the things they like?
- The first thing I expect of anybody is to read and comprehend the things they reply to.
  
  Nowhere in my comment did I say that people should stop creating communities. In fact, what I did say was that we should be able to categorize communities using tags. I even suggested that people. For example, using these tags to filter or find communities of interest.
  
  So yeah, there’s that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just block the instance

Nice profile picture! Can I have it?
Instances, plural. Hundreds of them. Hundreds of blocks.
- What? There are other anime instances? Where?
  
  I only know about ani.social, and I'm basically the biggest anime content poster on lemmy.
- I know there are a few anime communities, in a lot of instances I thought it was just ani.social. TIL

I wish I could just block everything from the internet

I browse all and sort by top month, I've seen 2 or 3 anime subs, blocked them, and haven't seen anything since?

I've blocked over 20 in the last day

FUCKING AGREED !

Hopefully you downvoted.

Because if you agree, then it's NOT an unpopular opinion.

Just go to the subscribed section so you don't have to deal with them.

Just don't join them?

I don't. I'm constantly. CONSTANTLY blocking the new ones that pop up on the feed
- I never see any because I didn't join them.

Join a smaller instance. As long as members don’t subscribe to the anime communities, they won’t feed into the feed.

Your anime is not unique enough to not just be posted in one mega anime community. That's easier to block. Probably has the same voice actors, too.

Tell that to

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

And the dozen other Linux communities there are
That's not how a social platform that works by people making as many communities as they can keep active, works.

You wouldn't even be seeing that many communities if there wasn't some activity in each of them.

Do yourself a favour and search for and block communities in these

Futa
Yiff
Hentai
Moe
Fur

Haven't seen any of that shit for a few days

Then, after the general and porn communities have been blocked, the specific show communities pop up. At least the anime fans on lemmy aren’t insufferable.

You can choose to browse all, local or subscribed. My guess is, you don’t spend much time checking the subscribed feed if you end up seeing stuff you don’t care about. It’s true that pretty much everything in the “all” menu is irrelevant stuff I don’t want to see, so I don’t really check that place very often.

Downvoted because this is true.

Y'all watch too many Japanese car-toons, and the apparent age of the female characters is fucking questionable, and every time someone brings it up yous start bleating about projecting to try and excuse it

Fucking weird, guys

Considering the art style has big heads and eyes, and omits age-indicating facial details to the point that in some stuff character straight up don't have noses, I always find it funny when people say adult anime characters look like 10-year-olds.

Based on what, the way real people look?