Asklemmy

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

No users.

A bunch of those lemmit online communities.

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

150 users, 118 communities.

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.

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just added a parenthetical phrase for clarification.

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

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

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

How do you find these numbers?

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Users 55 Communities 12 Instances 0

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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. 😆

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

Seven users, a bunch of communities and one instance.

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

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)

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.

6 instances, 1087 communities, 27 users.

I should probably look at unblocking the instances. I used those blocks early on to remove a massive number of communities I was uninterested in, but it has the side effect of also functionally blocking those users.

I do wish there were better tagging and filtering tools. Some of the communities I've blocked might have posts I'm interested in, but there's currently no way to surface those from under the mountain of memes.

I'd also love to be able to block posts but not comments from specific users. There's a handful of topics I don't care about, and some of the blocked users are just very interested in those topics.

And auto collapse comments with inline images (although that's more of an app feature than a Lemmy feature).

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?

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.

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)?

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).

Surprisingly few. I usually block people who think it's a good idea to incorporate my comments into their witch hunt and go my way with a pitchfork. That is, those who use offensive or derogatory tone instead of arguments.

I block a lot of instances because they're specific to interests I don't care about. I've blocked 2 particularly obstinate users.

So far, 177 users, 68 instances and 1526 communities.

a few dozen, mostly hexbear users. Though that was mostly from when I started using Lemmy, I haven't felt the need to block anyone in a long time. My list of blocked communities is much larger.