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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

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[–] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

150 users, 118 communities.

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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!

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] mayo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I'm thinking about clearing out my blocks every year just to get a sense of the land again

Sometimes I switch to an anonymous account to see what I'm missing out on, and it turns out I am missing a lot of content lol.

140 in 2 months sounds like a lot to me

Tbf, I went out of my way a few times when I was bored, looking for people to block. And specifically from the communities I like- a sort of proactive pruning lol

[–] josie@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] icogniito@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

No users.

A bunch of those lemmit online communities.

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

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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. πŸ˜†

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's probably a better way but...

Open the page, right click, inspect, paste these in there and possibly expand the node list for users.

Users

document.querySelectorAll('.person-listing')

Comunities:

document.querySelectorAll('.community-link')

I had 0 users, but 69 communities.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

DOM me daddy ✌🏻

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I manually counted them by counting how many in the list fit on my screen at one time (15 for me on Eternity), then seeing how many screens worth of scrolling I had to do to get to the bottom, and multiplying

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

Well played.

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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?

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Reil@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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).

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

1 instance, 3 communities, 91 users. I'm pretty reserved with the block button.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Seven users, a bunch of communities and one instance.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

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)

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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)?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] SlothMama@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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?

[–] eatthecake@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] Broken@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

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).

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