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
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 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.
Just 11 for me, all spambots. Luckily, I’ve not had many problems with real people around here.
None, I’ve seen hateful speech here and when I do I report it and carry on… I don’t dislike reading news or opinions I personally disagree with however.
Whoops, missed the communities portion of the question. I don’t browse all, I have a specific list of communities I’ve subscribed to that I read through in New order.
Just that annoying ass bias checker bot
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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)
150 users, 118 communities.
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.
