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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

three

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.

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.

On lemmy? None. I don't want an echo chamber.

Edit: Actually, I have blocked a few repost bots, but that's not people

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

None. Gotta have someone going against the crazies.

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.

Uhhh, none.....

I've never blocked anyone.

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

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.

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.

Two Nicoles

211 users.

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

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.

Around 40, mostly bots. The community block list is much longer.

"Why is lemmy such an echo chamber?"

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.

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.

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

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".

"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.

I have 4 users blocked, one instance and 4 communities.

I’ve only blocked communities for AI-generated content and obvious spam. I haven’t blocked any users here yet and have almost never done that since I tend not to take the things they say personally and other people’s responses to them can be entertaining. There are some bots I’ve blocked too.

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.

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

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.

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

Zero.

Because I'm not a fucking pussy.

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.

92 people, 5 instances.