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I've heard it be encouraged that users should curate their own experience on Lemmy by blocking accounts, communities, and/or instances that you don't want to see. I imagine I'm not the only one curious how my total compares to others'

I'm at 142, and I'm unsure if I should pretend to be bashful about that total

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[–] That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Only about two or three here on this site. I don't mind people who believe strange and disturbing things, politically or otherwise. It's the deliberate trolls that I block.

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I've blocked quite a bit. But mostly NSFW stuff and bot accounts. Only a few communities that don't fit that - mostly ones I thought were annoying

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
  1. all of them, as far as i can recall, are bots. most of them just reddit repost spam bots.
[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

This. You can usually spot bots from their low- value click bait. ("should cannibalism be legal?","why does God allow evil to exist?","Trump is a genius", etc).

[–] griefstricken@lemmy.ml 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

143, you are blocked for inane questioning.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think I blocked a bot once, if that counts.

But I don't block people on any sites unless they start spamming me in DMs or whatever. I don't see the point of blocking people otherwise.

[–] Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Same, I block communities but have yet to block a person.

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[–] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

No single users, but hexbear.net, monero.town and ani.social. While the first two are obvious good choices, I have to add that I don't hate anime, I am just really not interested.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

I've just blocked one spammy russia apologist who is extremely prolific. Although I am disappointed that the community tolerates them. I feel Lemmy has an unresolved Russia apologist problem.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Tons of communities. I don't think any users though. Some I know are trolls but if I don't challenge them, then they may influence people who aren't as aware of their agenda.

Mostly on this account I've blocked tons of porn and anime and sports.

My NSFW account I block anything not porn and all the porn I'm not interested in.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Zero, I ain’t no bitch. But I have blocked a lot of pages. No anime or languages I don’t know or Linux shit for me.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think that leaves star trek?

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[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

0

I won't block different perspectives. If I disagree I disagree and move on, but why block somebody? I think it is important to have your believes challenged.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Even when the belief being challenged is your right to exist? I personally don't entertain such perspectives

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Zero.

I mainly look at my subscribed feed, which contains mostly topics I want to see in communities moderated well enough I rarely see anybody being horrible.

[–] doc@fedia.io 16 points 5 days ago

3? I generally don't care, but some people are insufferable. They spew nonsense meant only to get a rise out of others and have a chip on their shoulder. Interacting with their existence is a waste of mine, so bye bye.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm at 0, no ones done anything agresious enough to warrant it yet. I dont think they ever could, annoying is another thing entirely though, I'd block for that.

I disagree with most people most of the time, I'm a stranger in a strange land

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Few outright spam accounts. Anything I find offensive enough to warrant a block is usually bannable anyway.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 13 points 5 days ago

A few dozen users, mostly bots or people posting in non-English with their accounts setup incorrectly to tag it as English.

Actual humans who I think are idiots or trolls, I'm more likely to just tag them instead of blocking them. I see the tag and it reminds me not to waste my time answering them, but I can still see other people making interesting responses. Like there's a chronically depressed dude who posts frequently, asks for advice, then insults anyone who replies. He caught me twice, then I tagged him and I no longer take his bait. But some other people who reply to him have genuinely good comments and I can still see them.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago

There was one user that was constantly creating communities for Japanese cartoons

Fuck me it was like swatting flies, but then I realised I should just block the user!

Ta-dah, no more suspiciously-pseudo-pedo shit cluttering up my "all"

[–] SlapnutsGT@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Just that annoying ass bias checker bot

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Occasionally I block users that are extremely bad for one reason or another. Honestly though, I have to block far more communities than users, and it’s mostly because of foreign languages. I have nothing against these communities, but if I can’t read any of their posts, they’re just noise. I’ve tried tinkering around with language settings, but for whatever reason I still seem to see at least one new one a week, and so I block it to clean up my feed. It just seems like something that should be easy, I’m a dumb American who only wants to see English communities, how hard is it to filter by language, or is this just a problem with my mobile client (Voyager)?

I dunno, the browser lags when I scroll down it.

It's trivial to build huge ones up. This account is only as old as the reddit bullshit in 23, and I know I'm over a hundred at least.

Humans are assholes. On the internet, they don't work as hard to pretend they're not. And, they'll often go harder at it than anywhere else. So you block a lot if you want to avoid future interactions with the same asshole.

[–] anas@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

4 so far, one bot and one flying squid included. Can’t remember why I blocked the other two.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lol I blocked flying squid too

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 4 days ago

151 including bots, and 551 communities (I usually browse by /all and just block everything I don't care about, mostly anime, gaming, regional politics and sports).

[–] mayo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

About 20 and growing. I also do it for my mental health. Social media isn't a place I want to take too seriously so my blocks are about avoiding people who seem agitated or seeking to create or participate in conflict with other members.

I'm thinking about clearing out my blocks every year just to get a sense of the land again, maybe when I'm feeling better I'll do that.

140 in 2 months sounds like a lot to me. Are you not blocking communities? That might be more efficient?

I'm thinking about clearing out my blocks every year just to get a sense of the land again

Sometimes I switch to an anonymous account to see what I'm missing out on, and it turns out I am missing a lot of content lol.

140 in 2 months sounds like a lot to me

Tbf, I went out of my way a few times when I was bored, looking for people to block. And specifically from the communities I like- a sort of proactive pruning lol

[–] SlothMama@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I haven't blocked a single anything, but I don't feel like I've had a reason to or even run into anything questionable so far.

I don't understand why it seems so common. Are people having issues on other servers?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

just a couple of bots i dont care about and several mods i really dont care about

several mods

Lol blocking mods is so funny to me for some reason

[–] josie@vegantheoryclub.org 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

None. I'm pretty lax about blocking people and haven't yet encountered anyone worth blocking.

I haven't blocked any communities or instances since the instance I created my account on has defederated from lemmy.world and .ca. I've considered blocking sh.itjust.works but I've successfully avoided them so far.

[–] _bcron_@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

None. I was on Reddit since 2008 and didn't block anyone there either. If I argue with someone over trivial bullshit it doesn't necessarily mean that they add nothing to every discussion they find themselves contributing to, so I just move on and just ignore them the old fashioned way.

I do block communities that are of absolutely no interest to me, but it has to be like 0% interest

[–] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

6 instances, 1087 communities, 27 users.

I should probably look at unblocking the instances. I used those blocks early on to remove a massive number of communities I was uninterested in, but it has the side effect of also functionally blocking those users.

I do wish there were better tagging and filtering tools. Some of the communities I've blocked might have posts I'm interested in, but there's currently no way to surface those from under the mountain of memes.

I'd also love to be able to block posts but not comments from specific users. There's a handful of topics I don't care about, and some of the blocked users are just very interested in those topics.

And auto collapse comments with inline images (although that's more of an app feature than a Lemmy feature).

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

I go raw, I trust my instance to defederate from the worst of it, but otherwise I don't block people, communities or anything. I also browse by all and while I subscribe to communities it's more for the future or something, because for now there's just not enough content to curate my feed really.

It's all good though because I switched to other sources for my specialist content (mainly YouTube) and Lemmy is just there for my obsessive scrolling.

No users.

A bunch of those lemmit online communities.

A few other communities that tend to mostly just be identity politics arguments.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

So far just one and that user was banned so the block doesn't really mean anything. I don't really have a reason to block users, I just blocked that one user because they were spamming some images and videos that had "extreme" content.

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I use Connect and tag users rather than block them. That way, I can still see stuff that's posted but I have a hint as to whether or not they are someone with whom I want to interact.

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[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

150 users, 118 communities.

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

215 so far. Just a lot of doom posting, or politics.

[–] icogniito@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

None, I don’t think I’ve ever blocked anyone on any social media except bots on Facebook and discord

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

None, I've seen hateful speech here and when I do I report it and carry on... I don't dislike reading news or opinions I personally disagree with however.

Whoops, missed the communities portion of the question. I don't browse all, I have a specific list of communities I've subscribed to that I read through in New order.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 7 points 5 days ago

Just 11 for me, all spambots. Luckily, I've not had many problems with real people around here.

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