Is it possible to block communities by name? Or is there any workaround to do so?
Specifically I am not interested in .*Moe posts. So whenever a “SomethingMoe” pops up in my feed, I block that community. However, unlike most other communities, they seem to have a never ending source of permutations of their names. This can get very tiring, as blocking them makes the general feed contain less, but never any of these posts.
I guess I could write a script, which blocks any community with the regex /.*[Mm]oe.*/gm and run it periodically. But I am a lazy bugger and neither want to write the script nor run it semi-periodically.
I disagree. I exclusively browse /all and not subs for discovery of new communities. I would miss out on so much if I never used all. How else do you even find a community to sub to? I just manually block anything I dislike. I think it’s a better system than subs, personally.
Hit lemmyverse.net, or check and see what people you talk to and find interesting are commenting in. Every subscription to a remote community had to start with at least one user on your home instance doing that.
There’s also [email protected] and [email protected] (the latter specifically for those communities just starting out) that will have a list of communities actively seeking new users.
I also try to recommend communities that I’ve found interesting when they’re relevant and come up in my comments with the
!communityname@instancesyntax. Lile, the other day someone posted a question about dice on [email protected], and I mentioned [email protected], which is devoted to people making dice (and has pretty pictures of them). That last one obviously relies on people actually sticking those recommendations in their comments though!