I’m not gonna just willy nilly block people… already too low userbase, I kinda wanna just see the drama

Like even that user asking weird age gap questions is part of the entertainment lol

But if they start being overtly toxic… yea I’m just gonna block and ignore

Not often. I browse by new all so I can begin the downvote train as early as possible and report stuff.

I don’t block, I label them with a tag, usually ‘asswipe’.

Life is too short to deal with assholes and bots. They get blocked very quickly.

When I made this account, I went through the communities and blocked a lot of them. All sports, foreign languages, anime, and furries. All the content I know that I have no interest in.

I’m very quick to block. Much faster to do so than I was on Reddit. I think the reason is because there’s so much less content on Lemmy that I sort by new instead of “hot”. That means I see content that would normally have been downvoted out of sight on Reddit. I’m tired of giving people the benefit of the doubt just to see the same terrible shit from them again later on. Now I just block.

I’ve only blocked a few accounts mainly for being absolute dipshits or spam bots, most are banned now anyway.

For everything else, you get either a nice tag labeled “clown” or if you’re clearly a MAGA chud, “MAGA clown”. Several tankies are tagged as such, plus a few I’ve seen that are possibly anti LGBT+ but have also posted about being LGBT+ so I’m unsure on them.

Basically just don’t be a dick or give misinformation and you’re pretty much fine with me.

My block list is around 100 users. Most are chronic NSFW posters polluting my All feed. The rest are either just annoying, spammers, or trolls.

I’ve only blocked a few people, but I’m quick to tag people as assholes/MAGA

I tag first

It’s pointless blocking people if that means they can still see and reply to you. Why even bother?

I’m at 21 users blocked. Seven of them have also been banned, apparently since I blocked them.

I have no doubt I appear on some users’ block lists too.

I’ve blocked many more communities. Mostly foreign language, plus subjects I have zero interest in, like guns or baking. I’ve blocked a few new communities simply for spamming posts when they start, which is annoying. New mods should be aware of this, don’t spam a bunch of posts when you start just to fill the front page, go slowly, wait a quarter or half an hour between posts. Or, maybe that’s just me.

If it’s gross porn or AI slop, instant block. For comments it’s only if we get like a dozen replies into an argument and I stop assuming they’re able to read

I only block people who consistently post things I don’t want to see or people who spam post the same thing eleventy billion times in different communities.

Personally I’ve thought about blocking you and violet for the horny posting but it’s amusing enough that I haven’t yet.

I’m very happy to block communities, much less so to block an individual. They’ve got to be consistently spammy for me to get annoyed enough to block.

Users: rarely, mostly bots or service accounts that post too much and clog the feed.

Subs: all the time, half are because i’m dum and can only read english, the rest are because they are from an instance/sub I dont want to hear from anymore. (Looking at the .ml and hexbears of the platform)