The ones that don't primarily use English simply because I can't understand what they're talking about, and even if I could, it's usually about the issues in another country that I can't do anything about, so my input is useless.

A lot of that hornyposting stuff. You know the people. I'm already thinking about that shit enough. I come here to not do that lol

The same ones that should be on everyone's: ml, hexbear, lemmygrad

NSFW/porn ones. Nothing against porn, it just should be separate and not pop up constantly when browsing /all

Hex Ml db0

Hexbear, world, and anything yiff/furry related

Looking at it looks to be lemmy.world which makes sense, as if I recall it's the biggest instance

I don't really bother blocking people; I prefer to use my winning personality to make them exit the conversation

I don't block, outside of the occasional spambot.
Certainly never a whole instance. That seems overkill.

Lemmy.world obviously as it's the biggest instance. Then ofcourse the usual suspects: Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Looking at that list the only other instances that seem slightly over-represented are dbzer0 and blahaj

Don't want to start any drama by listing specifics, but basically any instance that advertises itself as "a space for {insert flavor of identity politics here}".

I don't presently block any instances, and my home instance has a "no defederation" policy.

I think I've blocked about three users, all of whom were spamming content to try to make threads unreadable.

That being said, I don't subscribe to communities on lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, or lemmy.ml, and I normally browse subscribed.

Blahaj.zone and dbzer0

As an admin I don't block nearly as often as I ban. Most banned users are from .world or dbzer0. We also defederate the tankie triad.

No one blocked yet.

Only communities I block are the ones I'll never have interest in when browsing All. I just checked and I have no users or instances blocked.

i've blocked zero instances.

I have 8 from .world and 6 from other instances.

I only have three users blocked, I don't remember exactly why they're blocked but I assume they were scams.

I have 3, 2 from dot world

users: lemmy.world

communities: lemmy.ca

• Communities: none, I don't block entire communities (beside the ones already blocked by my own instance, I suppose) since I see no reason to punish an entire population for the poor behavior of some of their individuals.
• Users: I had no idea where they're from, so I just had a look. A good chunk is from lemmy.world but that is to be expected as it's quite large an instance, so it says nothing about the instance itself beside it being large. Also worth mentioning, I have blocked users from many other instances. The thing is that I block someone the instant I realize either

1. they are wasting my time: I'm too old to let anyone rob me of that precious resources.
2. they are only here to troll or to create drama, or spread hate and anger, not contribute anything positive.

i got all the guys with the big ass block letters for names on my block list

I've never felt the need to block anyone. Honestly my opinion is people who use this feature a lot must be either quite sensitive or very toxic themselves.