I found that things became much more pleasant on here when I blocked hexbear. I recently blocked lemmy.ml as well, but I may reverse that if I find that I’m missing too much good content.
I’m open to other ideas on how to mostly avoid people who love conflict or argue in bad faith.
I don’t block any instances, though I am rather happy that .world decided to defederate with hexbear and .grad. I’m not so bothered by .ml, while they can be a little annoying sometimes, they’re at least usually able to carry on a semi-intelligent conversation. Usually anyway.
That might explain it then. Everybody’s talking about blocking hexbear, and I’ve never had any idea what they were talking about, but I’m on .world, so I guess it’s already blocked for me.
I use world now instead of blahaj just cause I’m a weirdo. But hexbear was federated with blahaj and their users/admins are super irresponsible and rude and called a blahaj admin transphobic
The only instance I’ve blocked is nsfw because I’m not into porn. The others have never bothered me.
I’ve blocked so many communities I wouldn’t know which specifically and my client doesn’t show this info but basically any hentai or political ones.
I have post and content filters and my lemmy experience is amazing. I omit anything containing: trump, elon, yiff
I have a huge number of content filters, basically stopping just short of blocking the words “left” and “right” but trying to block everything else political.
What I wish I could find a way to do is pick by post language - I have nothing against a user/community, I just don’t speak (usually) German.
Same here.
Then also around 600 communities and probably atleast 400 users blocked. Each list grows by the day.
Kermit? Did the frog endorse genocide again?
It was an AI generated picture trend a year ago or so which I found a bit spammy.
I blocked hexbear and lemmygrad to stop the firehose of kremlin/beijing propaganda cluttering up my feed and that made my lemmy experience worlds better. There’s only so many times you can read “special military operation” used unironically…
ditto
I tend to block folks who spampost the same content three to four (up to 50) times, as this messes up my All experience, then those weird nearly CSAM manga style posts, and the clearly Russian/CN spam farm users.
Mostly foreign language and shitty porn. Also “moe art” because why are there 70 subs for anime girls JFC.
I never block anyone or any instance. I simply ignore them. I also use the subscribed feed, so what most of the people say about hexbear, lemmygrad, etc. content filling their feed also does not affect me.
You could always block everything but yourself and be at complete peace
That’s the beehaw instance
For now, I blocked three communities, one about gossiping and two about adult material. I also blocked a bot that keeps cross posting things from Reddit. That’s all that I blocked so far.
I haven’t blocked an entire instance but I do have a list of communities I’ve blocked.
Other than that, I just block the user, not the instance.
Says user Delightfully Divisive
Make your account on the porn instance and let them block you! Galaxy brain.
I think I blocked some porn instance but otherwise nothing.
I’m not the kind of guy who must block something I don’t agree with.
Nor am I. I’m also not the sort of person who expresses their comments in absolute terms.
I just block anything political and/or news. I am much happier now.
I usually only block communities, like NoStupidQuestions. There are actually quite a few stupid questions that can be asked, it turns out.
The only other instances I’ve blocked are HilariousChaos for all the spammy/unfunny communities they make and most of the foreign language instances.
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