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
The only block on both my accounts is lemmynsfw.com so I don’t have porn pop up on my feed at work
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.
Or annoyed with what they have to say?
It’s just some random internet person. Why would what they say annoy you?
Well yeah they’re random internet people, but sometimes they’re random internet people that show up in my feed/comments frequently
Just ignore/downvote/argue them. Whatever you prefer and have the energy for. I don’t believe blocking people just because they disagree or annoy you is a good mindset to have personally. You’re just setting yourself up to just browse in an echo chamber.
I remember a few months ago there was a post on Asklemmy where the person talked about how they enjoyed talking to an AI chatbot more than human interaction. During the course of the discussion it came out that this person had some incredibly crappy views on things like politics and human loss. This person admitted to blocking over 500 people on Lemmy because of it, and it’s likely gone up since then. Blocking people just sets one up to have that kind of mindset.
My instance doesn’t participate in downvoting, and arguing is a waste of time and bad for my mental health. So, I do choose to ignore them- forever, by blocking them lol.
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.
I think that leaves star trek?
And cats
And wizards - by far the greatest community out there.
I only got around to blocking subs that are in other languages in the last couple of months. I should have done so sooner.
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?
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
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.
I think 0.
on my sh.itjust.works account I blocked a couple bots I think
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.
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)
133 communities and just 45 users. An old alt of mine is among them for a reason I can’t recall. Login trouble or something?
Edited for fat fingers.
None, I don’t think I’ve ever blocked anyone on any social media except bots on Facebook and discord
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. 😆
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
Well played.
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.
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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
Few outright spam accounts. Anything I find offensive enough to warrant a block is usually bannable anyway.
25 users
37 communities
3 instances
I don’t think I’ve added to the list in months.
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
