echo chambers are like feedback loops FUN! but watch the feedback or you will leave with bleeding ears

I'm also blocking ads because I don't like them. This has worked out great for me so far.

Maybe, but i dont care anymore.

The internet got so ass overall. There is so much noise. There are just a few tolerable places left. I wont waste my precious time with shit i dont like or even worse which makes me angry. The internet supposed to be my distraction from how shitty my job is and my frustrations with all the idiots i have to encounter on a daily basis. Without block/allow lists this just isnt possible for me anymore for years.

And yeah sometimes its nothing big or important. I dont like the anime community in the internet at large. No special reason. I just dont like them. So i blocked everything i could so that stuff just never appears on my feed. Even though i enjoy a little anime in my live. As in japanese animated cartoons. Theres good stuff. But tbh it isnt even just anime. I pretty much stopped interacting with any specific fandom. And if i'm starting to see too many rick and morty, star wars, trek[...] whatever memes i'm going to block them as well. Its my feed.

IMHO thats way more valid than having some shitty engagement algo dictate what i see. I preselected my content already by beeing on the fediverse and then i've chosen my subs for communities. Thats already a big/tiny(?) ass echo chamber. Why not block shit i just dont like?

What if it was where you come to unwind and giggle?