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 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
1 instance, 3 communities, 91 users. I’m pretty reserved with the block button.
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 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 good idea! I like Eternity’s UI too much to switch to an app with more features, unfortunately
Ach, totally fair.
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.
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’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!
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.
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.
no users, but i have blocked 117 (mostly porn) communities and 2 entire instances
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.
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.
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).
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.
