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MFW I figured out who the general audience of Lemmy is.....

https://sh.itjust.works/post/36820650

MFW I figured out who the general audience of Lemmy is..... - sh.itjust.works

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. And so many people want to treat Lemmy as a balanced alternative to Reddit? What the fuck?!

FistingEnthusiast Apr 27, 2025

It’s easy to filter out

Half of reddit is either porn, RWNJs, or both

WoolyNelson Apr 27, 2025

Not sure what’s up with your feed, but mine is… not that.

Asidonhopo Apr 27, 2025

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.

Onomatopoeia Apr 27, 2025

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.

Asidonhopo Apr 27, 2025

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 [email protected]

[email protected]

Superbowl

LEGO

[email protected]

Classic [email protected]

[email protected]

Dandadumber [MANGA READERS HERE]@ani.social

[email protected]

Tiddies + [email protected]

Low Quality [email protected]

Stardew [email protected]

Rayven-Dev

Call Me Kevin

Catfight [email protected]

Shitty Ask [email protected]

Livestream Fails

Music

[ARCHIVED] Garden [email protected]

Satisfactory

Anime [email protected]

Factorio

[email protected]

FFM Threesome

[email protected]

[email protected]

Overwatch Porn

Gonewild couples

Chelsea Charms: Stunningly Huge Boobs - The World’s Biggest Augmented Breasts

Nanashi Mumei

Touhou [email protected]

Saturday Morning Breakfast [email protected]

All things Mother and EB

Soulslike - Discussion, News, [email protected]

Aesthetic Miscellany

Hazbin [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Gonewild stories

THE [email protected]

[email protected]

Calvin and Hobbes

Bloom [email protected]

[email protected]

Wings of fire

wings of fire fan club

The Official Unofficial Ashens Sublemmy

Nose [email protected]

Squirrel Spotting [email protected]

[ARCHIVED] [email protected]

hentai

Furry Captions

[email protected]

TinyURL

[email protected]

christian stuff

Duolingo

Fighting Game Community

Los Angeles Lakers

grimdank

Inktober [email protected]

Star Wars

DnD Homebrew

One [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

AI Generated [email protected]

Jewish

[email protected]

Pokémon TCG [email protected]

NSFWCYOA

Colibri [email protected]

Fun Loops ▶️@midwest.social

Helluva Boss

[email protected]

[ARCHIVED] Pokemon [email protected]

Deadlock @sopuli.xyz

cute dogs, cats, and other [email protected]

Boardgames

[email protected]

No Americans Here

Die [email protected]

egg_irl — Memes about being trans people in denial and other eggy [email protected]

Life Insurance

Skywind

[email protected]

League of [email protected]

Reaction GIFs and Memes

LA Clippers

Album Art - Share your favourite music album cover

[email protected]

Dogs

[email protected]

No Man’s Sky

Video game [email protected]

Board [email protected]

Rabbits

[email protected]

Pokémon TCG [email protected]

Spiele - Brett, Gesellschaft, [email protected]

The Apothecary Diaries | Kusuriya no [email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Boobies

Four’s Airship (NieR/Drakengard)@lemm.ee

The Expanse

Spy x [email protected]

… okay thats the list

Sunshine May 25, 2025

feddit.dk I dont speak enough german

Considering what happened in Denmark during ww2… and the fact they actually speak danish.

Onomatopoeia Apr 27, 2025

I’ve thought about blocking the instance you’re on. Lots of garbage from that instance.

BCsven Apr 27, 2025

Mine is not that. There was lots of porn, hentail, and tranny nudes showing in new at first, but I blocked those communities, its been good since.

Edit, sorry my bad the group w as Transy not Tranny

klemptor Apr 27, 2025

Do you realize that’s a slur?

BCsven Apr 27, 2025

The group had that name

TheTechnician27 Apr 27, 2025

Putting this here in case you’re really just out of the loop.

Tranny - Wikipedia

BCsven Apr 27, 2025

My bad, the groups was transy not tranny

southsamurai Apr 27, 2025

Yeah, unless you’re talking about transmissions pulled out and leaking fluid allll over the pavement like a dirty, dirty power transfer whore, tranny isn’t an ideal word choice nowadays. Which, if you’re using some of that sexy, slippery fluid to pleasure yourself while flipping through c/hotmopartrannies, carry on.

It was never exactly a good word to use, though it wasn’t as widely known that it was predominantly used in a derogatory manner back in the eighties and early nineties when it got more common in usage.

But nowadays, the only people that use it regularly are bigots, so if you aren’t one, and you use it, chances are that people will assume the worst, what with the worst often being the case.

But, you know, if you’ve got any pics of a Muncie m20 just sitting around, you know, maybe don’t Bogart that shit

BCsven Apr 27, 2025

It wascallyed something Tranny. Edit: my bad it was Transy not tranny

southsamurai Apr 27, 2025

Ahhhh, gotcha.

WatDabney Apr 27, 2025

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.

edgemaster72 Apr 27, 2025

Classic ATAPAtTApp moment

CTDummy Apr 27, 2025

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.

athairmor Apr 27, 2025

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.

StinkyFingerItchyBum Apr 27, 2025

Does lemmy have a block limit? Reddit does. I hit it.

dingus Apr 27, 2025

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.

Zexks Apr 27, 2025

Your feed is what you click on OP….

Burninator05 Apr 27, 2025

I’ll be completely honest, i have read a decent number of people say they have the same issue with Lemmy, tons and tons of porn.

My experience has been vastly different. I occasionally have some nudes posts pop up but only about once a month at most. It very rarely is more than top less and is never hard-core or kinky.

I don’t know what I did to seemingly make my experience this way.

Max-P Apr 27, 2025

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.

Andy Apr 27, 2025

Try a different instance.

I’m on slrpnk.net and it’s all radical environmentalists.

Come for [email protected], stay for [email protected].

Squorlple Apr 27, 2025

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.

Chozo Apr 27, 2025

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.

LoreSoong Apr 27, 2025

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.

Loaf Apr 27, 2025

Mine isn’t that way at all. My feed is always set to “All”, and it’s a diverse range of discussions.

Kaboom Apr 27, 2025

It’s heavily dependent on your instance. It kinda sucks to be honest sometimes.

All I can suggest is making liberal use of the block community function.

sunzu2 Apr 27, 2025

Why the down votes on this lol

Kaboom Apr 27, 2025

Because I’m kinda infamous here, I’m one of like 3 conservatives here and I have a habit of browsing /all.

People like to downvote everything I say, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s botted at this point

Forester Apr 27, 2025

Mfw I’m finding out that the gay furry instance that is my home instance has less porn than ops instance

Opinionhaver Apr 27, 2025

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.

SassyRamen Apr 27, 2025

A lot of Germans and Russians here

J52 Apr 28, 2025

Not my experience either, but then I don’t go looking for sub par stuff when there’s plenty of good around and I choose my 3rd party apps wisely.

TORFdot0 Apr 28, 2025

There was a yiff.net or something instance that I had to block when I first joined. It wasn’t really that popular I think it just had bots posting furry stuff from deviantart. It’s not that hard to clean up your feed.