Asklemmy

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.

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?

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

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

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.

No users.

A bunch of those lemmit online communities.

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

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.

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

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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.

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).

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

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 lemmy.ca. I've considered blocking sh.itjust.works but I've successfully avoided them so far.

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

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

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.

5

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

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.

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)

Just that annoying ass bias checker bot

Seven users, a bunch of communities and one instance.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

143, you are blocked for inane questioning.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.