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
just a couple of bots i dont care about and several mods i really dont care about
several mods
Lol blocking mods is so funny to me for some reason
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).
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”
I think 0.
on my sh.itjust.works account I blocked a couple bots I think
deleted by creator
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.
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.
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.
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
Just that annoying ass bias checker bot
A few. Mostly extremist mods who censor a comment I made that didn’t fit their echo chamber. They seem to feel the need to message you after, to reiterate they only allow their views to be expressed, and to flex. I just block em.
Blocking desalines using the software he helped write is very satisfying, in a sad sort of way.
No users.
A bunch of those lemmit online communities.
A few other communities that tend to mostly just be identity politics arguments.
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 only got around to blocking subs that are in other languages in the last couple of months. I should have done so sooner.
I think that leaves star trek?
And cats
And wizards - by far the greatest community out there.
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.
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.
