My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)

I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.

What about you?

  • SotuandusoEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    To be clear, I’m not trying to say it’s unfair for atheism communities to have those rules. Your community, your rules. But if I’m seeing those posts, I’m going to be bothered, and if I respond, I’m going to break the rules and bother everyone else. Better to not see it in the first place.

    In the same way, I’d expect atheists to block a Christian community if it were trending - though I’d be willing to meet them in constructive debate in such a community if the rules permitted it.

    Blocking is a community is how I control my personal feed, it’s not a condemnation.

    • glimse@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      2 months ago

      I’m “atheist” but I can’t stand the atheism subs. There’s just not much to talk about. You could replace them with one post titled “religion sure is stupid, right??” and nothing would be lost.

      • SotuandusoEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        Makes sense. You don’t exactly have atheist scriptures to study and discuss, and you’re not going to have any atheological discussions on how nature reflects the lack of a god.

        • glimse@lemmy.worldOP
          4·
          2 months ago

          Yep. I don’t like calling myself an atheist because I can’t stand emphatic atheists. I’m not gonna define my identity by what I don’t believe and I could not care less about what other people believe as long as what they practice isn’t harmful. If religion brings you joy and you aren’t oppressing someone in it’s practice, why should I have an opinion on it? You do you!

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
          3·
          2 months ago

          Well, there can be some things to talk about, like if you live in a country that’s mostly religious, then how did you find a romantic partner, or how did you “come out” to your parents etc…

          But the “Religion, am I right?”-posts are easy to make and will naturally get a lot more upvotes than a discussion post, so the latter get buried, unfortunately.