Question to people who block communities, how many? What’s your criteria? I, uhhh, block a measly 586 communities.
My criteria is as follows:
- nuked nearly all meme ones
- nuked meta ones for instances outside of mine, as I find my ingerence unfair
- nuked meta ones for countries I’ve no past with and no interest in making future with
- nuked soft porn / porn ones from .world
- nuked duplicate communities from instances which block many instances, so I get most diversity of opinions since they crosspost anyway
- blocked AI art communities
- generally anything related to AI, crypto and other topics I don’t have any interest in
- blocking all/near-all image and video oriented communities, because I’m here for engagement, not browsing images and most definitely not for videos
I’m very pro curating my own experience, as you may see. It’s quite slow, but at least I seldom get things I don’t want to check out, apart from some posts from technology.
For users, I block bots, assholes that post/comment any of the hateful -isms more than once, and spammers. I also wonder how many people have blocked me! I’m curious what someone could have been dreading so much coming from Reddit that they found in your posts. Maybe you’re making posts in comms I’ve blocked so I can’t see them, but a quick browse of your posts shows nothing offensive, and many of your posts drive healthy engagement. I was worried Lemmy would be the next Voat, luckily haven’t seen much of it here past the initial Reddit wave.
The negative response was to my posts on Asklemmy so you’re not missing anything via blocks. I have bots disabled by settings, unless someone didn’t declare that should cover all.