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

  • @[email protected]
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    33 hours ago

    There was one user that was constantly creating communities for Japanese cartoons

    Fuck me it was like swatting flies, but then I realised I should just block the user!

    Ta-dah, no more suspiciously-pseudo-pedo shit cluttering up my “all”

  • @Zak
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    Zero.

    I mainly look at my subscribed feed, which contains mostly topics I want to see in communities moderated well enough I rarely see anybody being horrible.

  • southsamurai
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    34 hours ago

    I dunno, the browser lags when I scroll down it.

    It’s trivial to build huge ones up. This account is only as old as the reddit bullshit in 23, and I know I’m over a hundred at least.

    Humans are assholes. On the internet, they don’t work as hard to pretend they’re not. And, they’ll often go harder at it than anywhere else. So you block a lot if you want to avoid future interactions with the same asshole.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

  • Vanth
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    98 hours ago

    A few dozen users, mostly bots or people posting in non-English with their accounts setup incorrectly to tag it as English.

    Actual humans who I think are idiots or trolls, I’m more likely to just tag them instead of blocking them. I see the tag and it reminds me not to waste my time answering them, but I can still see other people making interesting responses. Like there’s a chronically depressed dude who posts frequently, asks for advice, then insults anyone who replies. He caught me twice, then I tagged him and I no longer take his bait. But some other people who reply to him have genuinely good comments and I can still see them.

  • @taiyang
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    I’m probably an agent of chaos because I’ve blocked nothing, no one, nada. Don’t get me wrong, I abhor some of the bad takes I’ve seen, and I certainly have had to hide furry porn from family before I think that got defed’d, but I kind of like the weird chaos of c/All.

    But then again, the worst of it isn’t on LemmyWorld, I know what Hexbear and Lemmygrad look like and I’m not sure I could stay triple zero on bans.

  • masterofn001
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    36 hours ago

    Every moe community that popped up. A few other communities for season ranging from stupid to vile atrocity.

    One instance (a mostly moe server)I guess

    A couple dozen users.

  • doc
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    109 hours ago

    3? I generally don’t care, but some people are insufferable. They spew nonsense meant only to get a rise out of others and have a chip on their shoulder. Interacting with their existence is a waste of mine, so bye bye.

  • @Jackthelad
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    1911 hours ago

    I think I blocked a bot once, if that counts.

    But I don’t block people on any sites unless they start spamming me in DMs or whatever. I don’t see the point of blocking people otherwise.

    • Live Your Lives
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      Same, I block communities but have yet to block a person.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    How do you find these numbers?

    Edit:

    Users 55 Communities 12 Instances 0

    Edit #2:

    BTW, this was easy to find in the default interface for my instance (Settings > Block tab) but I still can’t find it on Photon. 😆

    • @[email protected]OP
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      27 hours ago

      I manually counted them by counting how many in the list fit on my screen at one time (15 for me on Eternity), then seeing how many screens worth of scrolling I had to do to get to the bottom, and multiplying

    • @[email protected]
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      16 hours ago

      There’s probably a better way but…

      Open the page, right click, inspect, paste these in there and possibly expand the node list for users.

      Users

      document.querySelectorAll('.person-listing')

      Comunities:

      document.querySelectorAll('.community-link')

      I had 0 users, but 69 communities.

  • @[email protected]
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    37 hours ago

    a few dozen, mostly hexbear users. Though that was mostly from when I started using Lemmy, I haven’t felt the need to block anyone in a long time. My list of blocked communities is much larger.