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
No single users, but hexbear.net, monero.town and ani.social. While the first two are obvious good choices, I have to add that I don’t hate anime, I am just really not interested.
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.
- all of them, as far as i can recall, are bots. most of them just reddit repost spam bots.
This. You can usually spot bots from their low- value click bait. (“should cannibalism be legal?”,“why does God allow evil to exist?”,“Trump is a genius”, etc).
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)?
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).
Few outright spam accounts. Anything I find offensive enough to warrant a block is usually bannable anyway.
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?
1 instance (can you guess which one?)
around 100-150 communities (mostly because they are in a language i dont speak)
and like, 5-6 users. a couple bots, and a couple far-right cringebros. used to have a whole lot more, but i recently unblocked everyone and am now less agressive with the block button
One. I was tired of their posts never loading for whatever reason and they were a prominent poster in a community.
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
Tons of communities. I don’t think any users though. Some I know are trolls but if I don’t challenge them, then they may influence people who aren’t as aware of their agenda.
Mostly on this account I’ve blocked tons of porn and anime and sports.
My NSFW account I block anything not porn and all the porn I’m not interested in.
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.
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
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I won’t block different perspectives. If I disagree I disagree and move on, but why block somebody? I think it is important to have your believes challenged.
Even when the belief being challenged is your right to exist? I personally don’t entertain such perspectives
But why the block? Why not disagree and move on with your life?
I think it’s bad for my mental health to be regularly exposed to extremely bad takes and hateful content, and blocking them prevents me from seeing them again in the future.
And my client doesn’t support tagging, so blocking them is a safe way to ensure I don’t accidentally waste my time reading the opinion of someone with historically shit opinions
I agree, if you feel it is affecting your mental health you should by all means take care of yourself and avoid it. I can understand how this is sensible.
Something I’ve noticed recently on Lemmy is that if you mention your own mental health, people immediately take it seriously, and I think that’s so fucking cool. What a great place; thanks for being who you are
No users.
A bunch of those lemmit online communities.
A few other communities that tend to mostly just be identity politics arguments.
