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
0 to date. So far, everyone has respected being ignored.
I only see the communities and instances I subscribe to, anyway. The local ones right when I log in too, but that’s all surrealism and hacker stuff on my instance, which I’m partial to.
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).
no users, but i have blocked 117 (mostly porn) communities and 2 entire instances
Just that annoying ass bias checker bot
None. I don’t engage enough for it to be an issue. I also know how to move on with real life if things get spicy (which happened on Reddit a lot).
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.
None? I’ve never felt the need to. I’m not categorically opposed to it, but it’s never occurred to me that I should block a particular user.
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.
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”
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.
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.
143, you are blocked for inane questioning.
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.
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.
Same, I block communities but have yet to block a person.
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.
