No, not consciously. However, I do block accounts that reply to me in a shitty or condescending way. Life's too short to deal with these people and I'll never meet them in real life. I've wasted far too much time engaging with arseholes over on Reddit, but since I've moved here I've been pleasantly surprised by the civility of most discourse. So that's why I block anyone wrecking my experience.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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I have a few accounts blocked but I mostly block communities.
If it hits my feed regularly and has no value or makes me cringe, hell yeah. We don't have an algorithm here to help you sort out the content, your subs and blocks do all the lifting.
Someone arguing in bad faith? Block.
Someone reposting the same drivel day after day? Block.
Don't care for the content of a community? block.
No need to fight, no need to complain, I have ~150 blocks, you're doing them and youself a favor.
There's that one guy who keeps making accounts with the same cm00* username but different servers. I wish piefed/blorp could block accounts based on a regex , wildcard, or other filter.
Yes and this operator does not seem to even read the content they repost. After they posted very low quality misleading items a few times, I blocked all of their accounts.
I'm pretty sure that they specifically repost things posted from .ml accounts. They aren't looking at the posts or hoping to farm "karma" or whatever, they're trying to de-populate the instance.
Can be pretty annoying when all the .ml posts line up with the cm00* posts.
Yes, the operator is very public about their goals. This doesn't make it any less annoying and by all measures it is not having the desired effect. I like that I can just block and make it all disappear.
I’m not sure how come anyone would try to farm karma when Lemmy doesn’t have karma points of any kind.
Only if I don't like the content they post
I think I blocked a couple of accounts years ago that were just reposting ancient memes from reddit in bot-like numbers. But it seems like the majority of content here falls under that category, so blocking seems futile. Can't even use downvoting to correct the issue because our votes aren't private/anonymous here and I don't need a large account seeing that I downvote their content every time I come across it. It would have to feel personal at that point 😆
I don't mind big accounts in principle, I just don't want to see memes from 2018 being reposted every day with the same titles, and for there to be no other content from those accounts.
No, mainly because who else is really posting?
For the most part…no, I don’t. I’m still of the mindset that there’s not enough people posting across communities, so blocking accounts is an absolutely last resort for me personally.
That said, there is one account that I know of that I question if it’s really a person or a bot. I won’t say who. However, they post multiple times an hour across a lot of communities. (I even went to their profile once to see when there would be a sizable break/gap for when they should be sleeping and didn’t find a gap within a 24 hour window!) I actually removed myself from one community because the posting there became way too frequent. Elsewhere that same account posts relevant content, so that was a better balance for me.
TL;DR - Usually no, so long as they’re posting what I consider acceptable/decent quality content. I’m more likely to remove myself from one community than block an account to tone down the level of posts in my subscribed feed.
I definitely understand finding it annoying though.
Also, welcome to Lemmy!
At least they are posting something and keeping the community active. We can't all be lurkers.
I block posters and commenters I don't want to see. Its that simple.
I used to avoid it because I thought I'd create an echochamber, but I've come to realise that there's a few users with fixations about specific issues that just give me the shits honestly.
Someone once told me that blocking people to curate your feed was a valid use case and I've never looked back. I don't care too much about an echo chamber if I am removing people who are absolutely unhinged.
Are you talking about age gaps dude?
But how would you feel if a financially stable, but socially flawed, middle aged woman from the South, were to date a moderately financially stable, but socially accepted, young man from Singapore? What are your thoughts on that?
No.
Yep. I'm not trying to see somebody just showing me the top 50 posts off their reddit feed day after day after day. That shit sure does numbers here though.
Ever had that reddit friend IRL who's just always showing you reddit stuff you already saw? That's who those are. They don't comment, they don't post oc, they never mix up their posts, it's a bot. Straight to the block bin.
I have six nicoles in my block list 😄
thats amateur hour compared to my cm0002 blocks. got to be at least a dozen.
Certain new accounts come out of the gate posting to the same 5 or 6 groups before deleting themselves.
I get suspicious over every new account.
I block them if (f * t - p - e) / q * r passes a certain threshold, where f is the frequency of posting, t is how annoyed I am by the general theme or topic of those posts, p is the cuteness of their profile pic, e is the amount of effort they put into each post, q is the overall quality of the posts, and r is a random number generated by my subconscious.
r is a random number generated by my subconscious.
I think that's just called a "constant." Like: "Kbal's Constant". You don't have to explain it, it just is. You should probably come up with a Greek letter for it tho.
Doesn't constant imply unchanging? For this to work the formula would need to have a random variable times the constant, which seems to make calling it a constant miss the point.
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The only account I've had to block so far is LadyButterfly. I'm usually against blocking people but I just couldn't take it anymore.
Same i.e. 8 days acct age, 512posts, 2359 comments
i wonder how many people have blocked me so far…
I never block you, but I always tag you and your many alts with some variation of Definitely A Woman or something else that implies that I think you're probably a dude who gets off on horny posting as a woman.
It just wouldn't be the same without you here.
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I've blocked 43 users and 6 communities, fediverse looks great now.
There's one reposter I want to block. But he has so many posts that his Mbin profile page refuses to load, and that's where the "block" button is...
No
The accounts that post into all sorts of comms including many they aren't a member of. The posts are usually pretty low quality and its clear the operator is not curating anything.
They're probably not bots mostly, just people who choose to scroll the "All" feed instead of maintain a "Subscribed" feed. I don't roll that way myself, but I guess it allows you to see more content.
Like I'm sure there literally exists some user who secretly bots Lemmy, but why would anyone spend time and money botting our irrelevant little ass crack of the Internet?
The other day I read a comment that says you can automatically filter out users wo post with high frequency. Is that true, does anyone know how? I've only looked at the settings through Boost.
I would also like to know how to do that. As far as I can tell that is not currently possible on any of the Threadiverse platforms.
Sometimes. I like to interact with people who comment, but also with those who post those threads. If they post too much, they most likely don't have time to talk about it.
I don't block almost anyone, usually the egregious bot accounts get banned. I think I've blocked maybe 3 accounts.
naw, i dont give a shit. my lifes too short
It depends on what the account is posting prolifically. For example, I’ll happily read silence7’s interesting links any time, but Patnou just asks weird questions over and over and I blocked them after a while. Weird questions may produce more engagement in the form of comments, but that’s a flawed metric because overall it’s just not interesting to see in the feed.
Yes
There's a fair few high volume posters who are definitely not bots, just terminally online (said with love!)
That's not to say there aren't bots that show up, but it's definitely not all the high volume accounts
I think the only ones I've blocked are mostly just obviously malicious, I think there's a one or two on there from ages ago I just found kinda unfunny, it's not really tied to the volume of posts.
There's not an endless amount of content here anyway, so I'm not gonna block someone just for contributing a lot, there needs to be some negative aspect to the posting for me to block
The ones I see who post multiple times per hour and never comment are quickly blocked by me. I prefer a smaller amount of thoughtful posts than a continuous blast of low effort posts with no engagement.
Sometimes. I tend to do it when the posts are all low quality or I have seen them reposted a lot. Haven't done this since I switched from Reddit to Lemmy, though.
I don't care if they're a bot or not, if the account posts frequently enough that the posts take up a screen's worth of my feed, usually back to back posts, I block them.
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