143, you are blocked for inane questioning.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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Zero, I ainβt no bitch. But I have blocked a lot of pages. No anime or languages I donβt know or Linux shit for me.
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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.
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
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.
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"
All of lemmy.world which is now blocked on my instance.
Curious why that is
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.
2 instances
175 users
515 communities
Impressive!
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
Just 11 for me, all spambots. Luckily, I've not had many problems with real people around here.
- all of them, as far as i can recall, are bots. most of them just reddit repost spam bots.
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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.
Even when the belief being challenged is your right to exist? I personally don't entertain such perspectives
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zero, across all platforms
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.
Or annoyed with what they have to say?
It's just some random internet person. Why would what they say annoy you?
Well yeah they're random internet people, but sometimes they're random internet people that show up in my feed/comments frequently
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.
I think 0.
on my sh.itjust.works account I blocked a couple bots I think
25 users
37 communities
3 instances
I donβt think Iβve added to the list in months.
How do you find these numbers?
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Users 55 Communities 12 Instances 0
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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. π
There's probably a better way but...
Open the page, right click, inspect, paste these in there and possibly expand the node list for users.
Users
document.querySelectorAll('.person-listing')
Comunities:
document.querySelectorAll('.community-link')
I had 0 users, but 69 communities.
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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
Well played.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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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)
My client doesnβt give me a number, but I would estimate it as at least equal to the number you have blocked. Comprised almost entirely of people who are trolls, spam bots, or generally incredibly unpleasant and not who I want polluting my feed.
I donβt think you should be embarrassed by it at all, instances themselves can easily be viewed as curated block lists, as any instance not filled to the brim with internet refuse is going to be blocking at least some instances (along with all the users on it). Adding a few hundred more to it is just fine tuning.
1 instance, 3 communities, 91 users. I'm pretty reserved with the block button.
no users, but i have blocked 117 (mostly porn) communities and 2 entire instances
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.
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.
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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