In my personal opinion, this site is completely unusable without heavy content filtering. Just being picky about which communities to follow and users to block isn’t enough.
That said, I realize I might be in the minority on this, so I’m curious what others are doing to preserve their sanity.
Yeah a lot of those were communities that just appeared out of nowhere and spammed my All suddenly - which was likely just one person trying to get the ball rolling with a topic I’m not interested in. Whether that initial wave of content ended up attracting an active community vs just fizzling out, idk, but a good chunk of them are probably ghost communities now.
Another good chunk are redundant communities - like 5 or 6 if those blocks are some variant of “To my badass hero” which is the same poster that keeps making new communities for softcore black and white porn… I can only assume in effort to circumvent blocks like mine.
The number of real/active communities on my blocklist is probably closer to a couple hundred - the rest of just the result of content whack-a-mole to clean up short term messes.