How many users have you blocked?

143, you are blocked for inane questioning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Just that annoying ass bias checker bot

25 users

37 communities

3 instances

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

zero, across all platforms

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.

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.

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.

11. all of them, as far as i can recall, are bots. most of them just reddit repost spam bots.

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.

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.

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

I'm at 0, no ones done anything agresious enough to warrant it yet. I dont think they ever could, annoying is another thing entirely though, I'd block for that.

I disagree with most people most of the time, I'm a stranger in a strange land

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

I think 0.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

2 instances

175 users

515 communities

None. I was on Reddit since 2008 and didn't block anyone there either. If I argue with someone over trivial bullshit it doesn't necessarily mean that they add nothing to every discussion they find themselves contributing to, so I just move on and just ignore them the old fashioned way.

I do block communities that are of absolutely no interest to me, but it has to be like 0% interest

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

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.

None, I don’t think I’ve ever blocked anyone on any social media except bots on Facebook and discord

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

Few outright spam accounts. Anything I find offensive enough to warrant a block is usually bannable anyway.

I browse by all, so mostly I've just blocked a shit ton of porn instances, communities, and accounts.

About 20 and growing. I also do it for my mental health. Social media isn't a place I want to take too seriously so my blocks are about avoiding people who seem agitated or seeking to create or participate in conflict with other members.

I'm thinking about clearing out my blocks every year just to get a sense of the land again, maybe when I'm feeling better I'll do that.

140 in 2 months sounds like a lot to me. Are you not blocking communities? That might be more efficient?

No users.

A bunch of those lemmit online communities.

A few other communities that tend to mostly just be identity politics arguments.

no users, but i have blocked 117 (mostly porn) communities and 2 entire instances

So far just one and that user was banned so the block doesn't really mean anything. I don't really have a reason to block users, I just blocked that one user because they were spamming some images and videos that had "extreme" content.

150 users, 118 communities.

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. 😆

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.

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.

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.

215 so far. Just a lot of doom posting, or politics.

The only block on both my accounts is lemmynsfw.com so I don't have porn pop up on my feed at work

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)

Two. And one of those was Blog Oklahoma cause I was tired of seeing their submissions and didn't wanna block the community. I think blocking should be reserved for people who are obvious trolls only. I like to drink from the firehose.

Drink from the firehose.

I haven't blocked a single anything, but I don't feel like I've had a reason to or even run into anything questionable so far.

I don't understand why it seems so common. Are people having issues on other servers?

I'm one that doesn't tend to block anyone, unless it's outright obvious I just need to. I haven't blocked anyone on Lemmy, hoping I don't find any reason to do so.

I think one person blocked me though, oh well.

Spez blocked me from Reddit, but like who cares right?

Edit: Obligatory FUCK SPEZ!

6 instances, 1087 communities, 27 users.

I should probably look at unblocking the instances. I used those blocks early on to remove a massive number of communities I was uninterested in, but it has the side effect of also functionally blocking those users.

I do wish there were better tagging and filtering tools. Some of the communities I've blocked might have posts I'm interested in, but there's currently no way to surface those from under the mountain of memes.

I'd also love to be able to block posts but not comments from specific users. There's a handful of topics I don't care about, and some of the blocked users are just very interested in those topics.

And auto collapse comments with inline images (although that's more of an app feature than a Lemmy feature).

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.

My client doesn’t 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 don’t 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.

Occasionally I block users that are extremely bad for one reason or another. Honestly though, I have to block far more communities than users, and it’s mostly because of foreign languages. I have nothing against these communities, but if I can’t read any of their posts, they’re just noise. I’ve tried tinkering around with language settings, but for whatever reason I still seem to see at least one new one a week, and so I block it to clean up my feed. It just seems like something that should be easy, I’m a dumb American who only wants to see English communities, how hard is it to filter by language, or is this just a problem with my mobile client (Voyager)?

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

Seven users, a bunch of communities and one instance.

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.

8 users. Many communities.

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 block a lot of instances because they're specific to interests I don't care about. I've blocked 2 particularly obstinate users.

5

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).

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.

Surprisingly few. I usually block people who think it's a good idea to incorporate my comments into their witch hunt and go my way with a pitchfork. That is, those who use offensive or derogatory tone instead of arguments.

So far, 177 users, 68 instances and 1526 communities.

1 instance (can you guess which one?)

around 100-150 communities (mostly because they are in a language i dont speak)

and like, 5-6 users. a couple bots, and a couple far-right cringebros. used to have a whole lot more, but i recently unblocked everyone and am now less agressive with the block button

About 220 users and a ton of communities, 2 instances. Mostly for posting nsfw shit (i have that turned off so it shouldn't appear), being outrageously stupid or bigoted and sports/anime. No regrets, not bashful about it. Different opinions are fine but I don't have time for the stupid and hateful kind.

Only about two or three here on this site. I don't mind people who believe strange and disturbing things, politically or otherwise. It's the deliberate trolls that I block.

Only 16 user. I don't have an issue with most people. However since I brows mostly new content from All, I got to block some communities (166 so far) or I'll see gay/trans content, content in foreign languages or Russian propaganda. I don't have anything personal per se against the former, I'm not homophobic, I just don't want to see nude males constantly. Other trans communities are just fine, like when they do memes or news.

Sadly the later part, Lemmy is basically Reddit/r/worldnews but worse and spread over multiple communities without curation, allowing for a lot of propaganda. I don't need content of people telling me that communism, which failed in their shit hole of a country, is the answer to capitalism.

However I see that this is a constant battle of the instance owner trying to keep ahead, so some of those are probably blocked instance wide already by now.

This will become less of an issue once the content we subscribed to is more and therefore we don't need to brows All to get enough entertainment. It's getting better by the day.