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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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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 3 days ago

no idea how to check block list, it's mostly just people who think personal attacks are acceptable. I have zero tolerance for idiots in my old age and it makes life so much better.

[–] griefstricken@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

143, you are blocked for inane questioning.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 15 points 1 week ago (1 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.

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[–] doc@fedia.io 11 points 1 week 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.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 1 week 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

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week 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 8 points 1 week 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"

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 7 points 1 week ago

I'm probably less but I have all of Lemmy.world blocked because it is moded by the kinds of people another instance would block for being an asshole

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week 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 1 week 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).

[–] incogtino@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

2 instances

175 users

515 communities

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] incogtino@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I browse by new, so I often see the spam advertising and bad faith garbage (Logic_&_Ethics anyone?) so I just block liberally

I literally don't know what I'm missing

ETA: I also don't have a language set, so if I see a foreign language community with no English posts or comments I'll just block it

I've blocked a couple of the top 10ish most prolific posters, so I know I'm missing out on some quality content. That's one benefit I see to tagging instead of blocking, if my client had that feature

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Just a handful...

Mostly non-english instances or subs that I wouldn't be able to read anyway.

and just a few users, who are big spammers.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] FreydounHosseini@vegantheoryclub.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All of lemmy.world which is now blocked on my instance.

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Curious why that is

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week 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 5 points 1 week 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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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

zero, across all platforms

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

I think 0.

on my sh.itjust.works account I blocked a couple bots I think

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

25 users

37 communities

3 instances

I don’t think I’ve added to the list in months.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

None, I don't think it's worthwhile to block users and create some kind of filtered bubble or echo chamber. To me, if you try to silence someone, you're afraid of what they have to say.

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

Or annoyed with what they have to say?

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just some random internet person. Why would what they say annoy you?

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

Well yeah they're random internet people, but sometimes they're random internet people that show up in my feed/comments frequently

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just ignore/downvote/argue them. Whatever you prefer and have the energy for. I don't believe blocking people just because they disagree or annoy you is a good mindset to have personally. You're just setting yourself up to just browse in an echo chamber.

I remember a few months ago there was a post on Asklemmy where the person talked about how they enjoyed talking to an AI chatbot more than human interaction. During the course of the discussion it came out that this person had some incredibly crappy views on things like politics and human loss. This person admitted to blocking over 500 people on Lemmy because of it, and it's likely gone up since then. Blocking people just sets one up to have that kind of mindset.

My instance doesn't participate in downvoting, and arguing is a waste of time and bad for my mental health. So, I do choose to ignore them- forever, by blocking them lol.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

How do you find these numbers?

Edit:

Users 55 Communities 12 Instances 0

Edit #2:

BTW, this was easy to find in the default interface for my instance (Settings > Block tab) but I still can't find it on Photon. πŸ˜†

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I manually counted them by counting how many in the list fit on my screen at one time (15 for me on Eternity), then seeing how many screens worth of scrolling I had to do to get to the bottom, and multiplying

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Well played.

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

133 communities and just 45 users. An old alt of mine is among them for a reason I can't recall. Login trouble or something?

Edited for fat fingers.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A few. Mostly extremist mods who censor a comment I made that didn't fit their echo chamber. They seem to feel the need to message you after, to reiterate they only allow their views to be expressed, and to flex. I just block em.

Blocking desalines using the software he helped write is very satisfying, in a sad sort of way.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week 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

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have blocked 37 users (on this account). I haven't had any need to block communities nor instances, thankfully enough.

I usually block users for being spammy, or outright just spamming shit. Otherwise, I tend to treat blocking as the nuclear option which I only use if I'm absolutely fed up with a lemmy user/community/instance.


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just added a parenthetical phrase for clarification.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

a few dozen, mostly hexbear users. Though that was mostly from when I started using Lemmy, I haven't felt the need to block anyone in a long time. My list of blocked communities is much larger.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago
[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Every moe community that popped up. A few other communities for season ranging from stupid to vile atrocity.

One instance (a mostly moe server)I guess

A couple dozen users.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

1 instance, 3 communities, 91 users. I'm pretty reserved with the block button.

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

So far, I haven't blocked any users. But I have blocked lemmit.online, because I don't want to see auto-reposts from Reddit, as well as three communities I don't want appearing on my frontpage for different reasons. (Important to note I'm very new)

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

13 blocked users, 10 blocked communities, 2 blocked instances.

The blocked users are just trolls looking for arguments.

The blocked communities are mainly ones on my home instance that have no interest for me, but were appearing in "Local". Nothing against them, just no interest.

The blocked instances were ones that brigaded sensitive topics with political fanaticism. I was finding myself trying to have discussions with people who weren't open to it, but would fiercely respond to any criticism of a viewpoint.

[–] Reil 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Looks like I've blocked 2? One for bigotry reasons I can't recall, and the other for being just having annoying posting habits (applying a license to every comment like those facebook chainletters).

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