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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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.
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.
2 instances
175 users
515 communities
Impressive!
I browse by new, so I often see the spam advertising and bad faith garbage (Logic_&_Ethics anyone?) so I just block liberally
I literally don’t know what I’m missing
ETA: I also don’t have a language set, so if I see a foreign language community with no English posts or comments I’ll just block it
I’ve blocked a couple of the top 10ish most prolific posters, so I know I’m missing out on some quality content. That’s one benefit I see to tagging instead of blocking, if my client had that feature
143, you are blocked for inane questioning.
1 instance, 3 communities, 91 users. I’m pretty reserved with the block button.
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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.
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).
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.
Seven users, a bunch of communities and one instance.
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)
