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
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
- 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).
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?
All of lemmy.world which is now blocked on my instance.
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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 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.
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)?
Only about two or three here on this site. I don’t mind people who believe strange and disturbing things, politically or otherwise. It’s the deliberate trolls that I block.
no idea how to check block list, it’s mostly just people who think personal attacks are acceptable. I have zero tolerance for idiots in my old age and it makes life so much better.
So far, 177 users, 68 instances and 1526 communities.
1526 communities. Wow that’s a lot. Is there anything left?
Everything that’s not meme, anime, manga, politics, sports, porn, dei related.
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
