So far, I haven't blocked any users. But I have blocked lemmit.online, because I don't want to see auto-reposts from Reddit, as well as three communities I don't want appearing on my frontpage for different reasons. (Important to note I'm very new)

Only 16 user. I don't have an issue with most people. However since I brows mostly new content from All, I got to block some communities (166 so far) or I'll see gay/trans content, content in foreign languages or Russian propaganda. I don't have anything personal per se against the former, I'm not homophobic, I just don't want to see nude males constantly. Other trans communities are just fine, like when they do memes or news.

Sadly the later part, Lemmy is basically Reddit/r/worldnews but worse and spread over multiple communities without curation, allowing for a lot of propaganda. I don't need content of people telling me that communism, which failed in their shit hole of a country, is the answer to capitalism.

However I see that this is a constant battle of the instance owner trying to keep ahead, so some of those are probably blocked instance wide already by now.

This will become less of an issue once the content we subscribed to is more and therefore we don't need to brows All to get enough entertainment. It's getting better by the day.

no users, but i have blocked 117 (mostly porn) communities and 2 entire instances

just a couple of bots i dont care about and several mods i really dont care about

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.

I use Connect and tag users rather than block them. That way, I can still see stuff that's posted but I have a hint as to whether or not they are someone with whom I want to interact.

Seven users, a bunch of communities and one instance.

5

Looks like I've blocked 2? One for bigotry reasons I can't recall, and the other for being just having annoying posting habits (applying a license to every comment like those facebook chainletters).

Just 11 for me, all spambots. Luckily, I've not had many problems with real people around here.

zero, across all platforms

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.

None? I've never felt the need to. I'm not categorically opposed to it, but it's never occurred to me that I should block a particular user.

13 blocked users, 10 blocked communities, 2 blocked instances.

The blocked users are just trolls looking for arguments.

The blocked communities are mainly ones on my home instance that have no interest for me, but were appearing in "Local". Nothing against them, just no interest.

The blocked instances were ones that brigaded sensitive topics with political fanaticism. I was finding myself trying to have discussions with people who weren't open to it, but would fiercely respond to any criticism of a viewpoint.

25 users

37 communities

3 instances

I don’t think I’ve added to the list in months.

I'm probably less but I have all of Lemmy.world blocked because it is moded by the kinds of people another instance would block for being an asshole

All of lemmy.world which is now blocked on my instance.

I think 0.

on my sh.itjust.works account I blocked a couple bots I think

0 to date. So far, everyone has respected being ignored.

I only see the communities and instances I subscribe to, anyway. The local ones right when I log in too, but that's all surrealism and hacker stuff on my instance, which I'm partial to.

0, I’m just raw dogging /all (minus whomever .world is defederated from)

Just a handful...

Mostly non-english instances or subs that I wouldn't be able to read anyway.

and just a few users, who are big spammers.

A few. Mostly extremist mods who censor a comment I made that didn't fit their echo chamber. They seem to feel the need to message you after, to reiterate they only allow their views to be expressed, and to flex. I just block em.

2 instances

175 users

515 communities

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.

None, I don't think it's worthwhile to block users and create some kind of filtered bubble or echo chamber. To me, if you try to silence someone, you're afraid of what they have to say.

None. I don't engage enough for it to be an issue. I also know how to move on with real life if things get spicy (which happened on Reddit a lot).

I browse by all, so mostly I've just blocked a shit ton of porn instances, communities, and accounts.

133 communities and just 45 users. An old alt of mine is among them for a reason I can't recall. Login trouble or something?

Edited for fat fingers.

0

I have blocked 37 users (on this account). I haven't had any need to block communities nor instances, thankfully enough.

I usually block users for being spammy, or outright just spamming shit. Otherwise, I tend to treat blocking as the nuclear option which I only use if I'm absolutely fed up with a lemmy user/community/instance.

EDIT:

just added a parenthetical phrase for clarification.