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
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.
143, you are blocked for inane questioning.
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.
That’s a feature I didn’t know I needed. Too bad Connect is proprietary IIRC
Boost also has a tagging feature. Their Lemmy app may be even better than their old reddit app.
That’s a good idea! I like Eternity’s UI too much to switch to an app with more features, unfortunately
Ach, totally fair.
I think 0.
on my sh.itjust.works account I blocked a couple bots I think
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
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.
EDIT:
just added a parenthetical phrase for clarification.
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.
Lemmygrad is blocked by my instance lol
I think it’s blocked by a ton lol. There’s a list, and boy are some of those instances outrageous lol
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.
All of lemmy.world which is now blocked on my instance.
Curious why that is
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.
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”
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.
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.
no users, but i have blocked 117 (mostly porn) communities and 2 entire instances
