Basically only the communities in another language, I don’t have any issues with it, other than not wanting to translate news articles.
I do have one user blocker that is a troll or bot that is constantly posting political stuff, something like 30+ posts a day and nearly 80 comments a day, most of which are down voted to hell for obvious reasons.
Most anything that is US-centric, like US-only news or US-only politics. Mainly 2 reasons:
These threads are usually filled with heated, badly-moderated, frustrating discussions that lead nowhere.
I am not american, so I cannot even vote or affect things over there in any way, which just makes hearing about the chaotic state of things even more frustrating.
Thus I simply elect not to see those posts at all.
I also block most meme communities, since they otherwise fill the All feed. I can easily just go on incognito/log out to view the all feed with memes if I want a laugh (it’s not that I dislike memes in general).
All the “middrif/glasses/office/has limbs-moe” communities. All the porn, furry, and celebrity stuff. Also Star Trek and Linux. Not because they were bad, but I felt like that was all I was ever seeing. Also the sports/team communities.
Yup. I quit everything but Reddit several years back without a second thought in all that time because I lived in a big metropolitan city.
Now I live in a small suburb where all the towns and businesses post to FB, neighbors have tradeposts and active interest groups on there, the schools and Police post info there too. My wife has connected to “friends” we otherwise wouldn’t exchange info with.
All that has had me wanting to create a new account - just to connect. I was completely ignorant to the role it plays outside of big cities beforehand. Nextdoor is a really crappy alternative.
Yeah, it’s always surprised me a little bit just how strong they still are. While the often-online do tend to shy away from it, it’s actually still a preferred platform for the less-online, due to how easy it makes coordinating real life events. Also not the sort of segment that usually cares much about data privacy.
He’s off a bit there. They stopped the show with the end of Book 6, right before the time jump for Book 7. So they didn’t make the final 3 books into the show. There’s hints and foreshadowing for them.
Also the books don’t directly correlate with seasons until Season 4.
Book 1: Season 1 and first half of Season 2
Book 2: Second half of Season 2 and first half of Season 3
Book 3: Shortened and only the second half of Season 3.
I don’t integrate it with anything else, but facebook remains my best option for getting current contact info for anybody from my past. Even after the enshittification, it remains an effective Rolodex. Rolodex…I am old.
You’d be surprised how much you’re integrating it with everything else. Facebook has installed trackers on most major websites, and without the right tools blocking it, they are essentially following you everywhere.
Fair point, but I still need a quick way to tell people about upcoming funerals. On the plus side, I’m between the wave of friends’ baby photos and the wave of grandbaby photos. Which is nice.
And yet your life would be almost literally no different if you didn’t speak to a single one of them again after dropping the charade of cordiality and reminiscing.
I mean that’s why you’re here too. Lemmy would be all I needed if all I cared about was Linux and Star Trek memes. But lets say I want a live thread with hundreds of people all watching the same sporting event I am and chatting about it, I’m going to need to go somewhere else.
Besides from the Turkish shooter meme, there was barely any engagement in the Olympics here. Our interests here are so niche not even the largest sporting event in the world can get our attention.
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