I don’t really bother blocking people; I prefer to use my winning personality to make them exit the conversation
Blahaj.zone and dbzer0
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.
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 tend to block new communities fairly frequently. There are a lot that would be fine to see one post occasionally, eh, whatever, scroll on.
But a lot of the time, someone will make a community and immediately spam like 10 posts in a row. I can scroll past 1, but when it’s most of a page, it gets annoying.
I tend to rarely see new communities all that often. I feel like whenever I go on All it’s a the same few that I find interesting enough to keep around, but not enough to join/sub to.
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.
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.
What does it even mean to block as an admin? Wouldn’t that be abdicating your responsibilities?
Yes, that’s why I have no blocks
The same ones that should be on everyone’s: ml, hexbear, lemmygrad
Hexbear, world, and anything yiff/furry related
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 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.
Looking at it looks to be lemmy.world which makes sense, as if I recall it’s the biggest instance
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}”.
Is trekkie a political identity?
I have a lot of blahj users blocked, across various different blahj instances. some of whom i notice have the same username across multiple instances where they spam rage bait content and tons of hostile commentary. most of them were from my /all feed where i saw them spamming this stuff.
I don’t really consider blahaj as an “identity politics” instance, but I think I know which users you’re referring to (or at least their style). I’ve probably had those blocked for a while now.
I don’t block, outside of the occasional spambot.
Certainly never a whole instance. That seems overkill.Blocking an instance blocks the communities, not the users.
So I have .ml instance blocked, no post to a .ml hosted community will ever show up to my feed.
But if an .ml makes a post somewhere else, I see it.
I see their comments, and replies.
I just don’t stumble into a place with authorarian moderation policies.
The only instance I’ve blocked is feddit.online, because it’s a pure reddit mirror with no users or fediverse-native posts. I found it clogged up my feed and made lemmy feel dead since there were all these posts with zero engagement, so I haven’t missed it at all and def recommend blocking it if your instance federates with it
Hex Ml db0
what is db0? i’m not familiar but i noticed i have tons of people from that instance on my block list.
An average hard-line lefty instance that’s pretending to be Anarchist, except that they don’t actually follow Anarchist ideals and the admins decide what kind of Anarchism is “real Anarchism”. The only flavor difference from most (Lefty) instances is that they welcome AI generated stuff, which is overwhelmingly hated on Lemmy.
My favorite part is how their own Golden Rules conflict with their own Code of Conduct, not to mention their admins blatantly do not follow either. It’s hardly surprising you have a lot of them blocked.
We’re too leftist over here for homie. Lemmy.bzer0.com.
It’s not the leftism it’s the unapologetic felatio to your tankie friends. At least ml is honest about who they are. You lot pretend to be anarchists but cream your pants for State sponsored authoritarianism as long as it comes out of China, Iran, Cuba, Russia or one of the other triad countries.
as an anarchist I have way more common cause with ‘tankies’ than with running dogs for empire
That’s not me. Bark at someone else.
if you run around with a bunch of clowns, you’re part of the circus 🎪
Cool story.
A weird “anarchist” instance that bans people if they down vote or say negative things about AI or the blahaj admin for some reason. I think db0 made a blahaj admin a db0 admin or something, there’s a weird cross over.
But it’s what you expect when an “anarchist” names their entire instance their own username.
not disagreeing that some of the hot takes are pretty out there… but I try to feed my inner lefty from as many sources as possible and a non-zero number of posts lead to interesting articles, regardless of the sometimes suspect commentary.
They can make all those takes in civilized places…
Like, if you run into mods you don’t like: block their communities.
You run into heavy handed admins that enforce stupid rules across all their communities, you just block every community on their instance at once instead of one at a time.
This is especially helpful for people who browse /all because those problematic instances tend to be full of people who want to mod 27 different communities and won’t stop making new ones.
It comes off as spam to a lot of people, which is why an instance block is valuable. It just stops people from accidentally going somewhere on the fediverse that they don’t want to fuck with.
