My list of people blocked? Teeny-tiny. My list of instances and communities? Well, now we've hit the jackpot.

like 15, but 7 of them are alts of the same user

Edit: its closer to 30, extremely toxic people or propagandists

I used to just not block so I can downvote them when I see them, but its getting increasingly more toxic and I had to block them.

Not that many, just obvious bots/scams. The app I use has user tagging so I can assign a color tag and text tag per user. Red = for me, do not engage and yellow = for me, engage with caution.

I tend not to block real humans, even the trolls, because often times the responses are interesting to me. I've learned some real facts about my trans peeps here on Lemmy because some people took the time to give informative responses to the community's benefit, despite the question being an obvious troll attempt.

Some of my tags include yellow for "AI slop spreader" and red for "TERFy troll".

About a dozen people.

Communities, on the other hand, is a far higher number. I don't know the number but it's all the anime, AI, and furry communities.

None. I don't remember who I've argued with online the next day. I do have lemmynsfw muted

0

I avoid most controversial comment threads since I'm not here for drama. I do have a few people I put user tags on if I see them have consistent bad takes or if they treat other people poorly so I can avoid interacting with them. There hasn't been any need for me to actually block anyone.

This isn't directed at you personally, but these threads pop up from time to time, and for how few people are active commenters here, to have 100 blocks and the need to share that feels like something of a red flag to me. I don't think I've blocked more than a dozen people in about 30 years of being online.

12 instances and rough estimate between 100 and 150 people blocked. Note a lot of them are blocked for posting spam ads or being bots, but a lot are blocked due to behavior. Fuck 'em. I only have so much time on this earth, and I'm not spending any more of it dealing with fuckheads than I have to.

I have 0 people blocked

I would only block if someone would follow me around, harassing me on every post or something, which hasn't happened yet in Lemmy

From the sound of it, you might want to relax your trigger finger juuuuust a little

Uhhh, none.....

Hundreds. Comms, instances, users...

Reasons are everything from AI slop to US politics to folks posting pages upon pages of the same content. I also block comms and instances where I don't speak the main language.

I sort by all and curate that down to what I want to see. So, lots.

So far, 2 users and 4 communities but I’ve only been here for 3 weeks (almost).

Some posts are so uplifting that it restores my faith in humanity, then the next post has nothing but toxic comments that makes my eyes hurt.

33 but most of those are spam accounts. Actual people are hardcore tankies and the usual bigoted/racist shitheads. Maybe about 7 people I think?

"People" as in actual humans? None, I think.

If I block those with frequent trash takes, I won't get to downvote them next time. Other reasonable people would then see their future posts with higher scores.

Why is no one asking why you also just block random people for no discernible reason? I don't know how to check my block list, but I don't think I have anyone blocked (but maybe there is one or two). I have a shitton of instances blocked because I don't want to see porn in my feed though. I have no qualms with users of porn commuties or letting them do what they want, but that isn't what I'm interested in or want to see.

Only Nicole. I just tag the propaganda spammers like [@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml using Voyager, so I don't need to read their posts first, but that's it. Instance wise however I blocked lemmy.ml and ani.social

Two Nicoles

Like 2.

"Why is lemmy such an echo chamber?"

Zero. Even if I vehemently disagree with someone I am still willing to see what they said.

I think echo chambers and "bubbles" are incredibly dangerous.

92 people, 5 instances.

None, but I do tag trolls and other kinds of idiots, so I can avoid replying to them but still read what they're up to.

I've never blocked anyone.

Loads of accounts, but a fuckton of them are just alts between two different dumbasses who seemingly have accounts on every single instance they could find.

A number, but they're mostly posting bots and people who are prolific gay porn posters (or other porn that I don't want to see).

4 users 1 instance. Mostly propaganda spammers. I wouldnt mind if the things they posted were high quality and thought provoking but its the lowest tier slop journalism and opinion pieces from people with no subject matter expertise.

Five.

I only block people if they actively harass me online. Otherwise, I'm fine with disagreement and do not tend to rage ban.

Still, if someone follows me around Lemmy to spite on everything, I'd rather have them blocked to keep this place nicer.

Oh, and there's Nicole in there, of course.

I haven't blocked anyone yet. Haven't had enough of a problem to warrant the effort.

I did add a tag to one guy out of curiosity and now im seeing him everywhere

Oh dear, now I’m wondering if I’m on your list or not :)

I only have two bot accounts blocked, not even sure if they’re still active.

14 communities and 6 users. I mainly browse by Local/New no it’s usually overzealous new communities that veer too close to spam trying to generate content for the community. I try and wait them out but sometimes I just give up.

On the user side I think it’s mostly all alts for one troll

One, with another account I'll block if I see them again, but I'm fairly certain they're the same person. These accounts are a teenager asking any sexual question that pop into their mind.

I get being curious, but if you've seen Mickey/Michael around you already know it's a bit much.

Only 14 for people and I can say for sure that 3 of those are alts of one person. Not sure how many of the others may be alts or even more alts of that one guy. Im a big block proponent but I don't believe in doing it casually with individuals. I do way more with communities but like half of that is because the language preference often does not seem to work.

I block spammers and scammers.. but when taking about real "I incredibly really dislike this person" kind of blocking, then that is 1.

He is like my shadow, completely opposite of how I would ever act with people. It drives me nuts every time I see a message from him since what he desires, I also desire, but he does it so so much worse in a way I would never do it.

We interacted once. Got kind of a negative-ish jokingly response, so I checked their history and... Yeah no.

There is also tons of other things I just clash with him on too, like some idealistic views..

In my eyes, he downgrades the community VASTLY with his hot takes, negativity and ignorance, but others disagree.. so I block him

32, most of them being spammers or serial posters, with the occasional bad faith and/or too hostile or angry person that I simply do not wish to read in the future.

I don't block entire instances because my feed only shows me what I'm subscribed to (meaning I don't see much of those communities that are the most likely to trigger shitty/low effort content posting) and I've not yet felt the need to censor a whole instance no matter how many morons, or worse, are thriving in it... simply because I'm not forced to read them.

BTW, when I moved from Lemmy to piefed the block list was one the two things I wished to bring with me. I could not bring the other one (my posts/comments) but, hey, at least I was able to keep spam and trolls at bay ;)

Edit: clarifications.

About a hundred. The list used to be thousands of users long when I tried filtering out everyone pushing extremist policies or just being hostile in general - but it turns out that’s most people here, since my feed completely died down. Now I’m trying a different approach: blocking only the worst offenders and using keyword-based content filtering to hide the comments that poison my mind.

AI-powered content filtering can’t come soon enough. Even keyword filtering is a blunt tool. I’d rather just describe the kind of content I don’t want to see and have it filtered out before it ever reaches me. I’m sick of how angry everyone is here. Most people probably don’t notice it much since it’s usually directed at people they dislike too, but anger hits me differently. I don’t like feeling that emotion, and I don’t like being around angry people.

About 20 people, mostly Nicole variations and a bunch of trolls.

About 175 communities. I have absolutely no interest in sports, anime or related, and I'm very limited in the foreign languages I speak.

211 users.

three

4. Don't remember why.

mostly spam bots. I can't find any irl humans in my killfiles.

Only about fifteen or so. A few are bot accounts that I don't want to see, a few sent me spam during the whole Fediverse Chick thing, and the last few are just regular people who aren't doing anything necessarily wrong but who I just find tiresome and unpleasant in some way or another

I have a few. Mostly annoying ad hominem assholes.

None. Gotta have someone going against the crazies.

On here? No one. On other platforms, only two people have ever given me enough grief that I needed to.

On here? Like 40 something, but largely spammers. Blocked far more subs though, mostly of content that does nothing for me. On Bluesky I'm subscribed to a blocklist or two for MAGA types and tend to block anyone who follows me with a suspiciously high follow count.

I'm sitting on 40 blocks in 2 years. It's almost entirely assholes who have trouble with reading comprehension or who like to attack people on a whim.

Like 2 or 3 users who wouldn't shut the fuck up and kept annoying me.

Edit: Also forgot the one that tried to scam me.

Eight, but this account is only a couple weeks old.

Zero.

Because I'm not a fucking pussy.

None. I'm not a coward.

I've blocked a few repost bots, but I think only one human-controlled account.

Very few myself. I only block people if I see them as actively wanting to do harm to me

How do i tell in voyager