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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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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

143, you are blocked for inane questioning.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that leaves star trek?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And wizards - by far the greatest community out there.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

several mods

Lol blocking mods is so funny to me for some reason

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a good idea! I like Eternity's UI too much to switch to an app with more features, unfortunately

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's a feature I didn't know I needed. Too bad Connect is proprietary IIRC

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month 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"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Just that annoying ass bias checker bot

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

25 users

37 communities

3 instances

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

zero, across all platforms

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. all of them, as far as i can recall, are bots. most of them just reddit repost spam bots.
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm probably an agent of chaos because I've blocked nothing, no one, nada. Don't get me wrong, I abhor some of the bad takes I've seen, and I certainly have had to hide furry porn from family before I think that got defed'd, but I kind of like the weird chaos of c/All.

But then again, the worst of it isn't on LemmyWorld, I know what Hexbear and Lemmygrad look like and I'm not sure I could stay triple zero on bans.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Curious why that is

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I think 0.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol I blocked flying squid too

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

0, I’m just raw dogging /all (minus whomever .world is defederated from)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

2 instances

175 users

515 communities

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

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