Slightly over 100 for me. Along with people I dislike, I also like to block people on a whim even those i never interact with, so my block list is all over the place.

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    My list of people blocked? Teeny-tiny. My list of instances and communities? Well, now we’ve hit the jackpot.

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    I avoid most controversial comment threads since I’m not here for drama. I do have a few people I put user tags on if I see them have consistent bad takes or if they treat other people poorly so I can avoid interacting with them. There hasn’t been any need for me to actually block anyone.

    This isn’t directed at you personally, but these threads pop up from time to time, and for how few people are active commenters here, to have 100 blocks and the need to share that feels like something of a red flag to me. I don’t think I’ve blocked more than a dozen people in about 30 years of being online.

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      I’m already wasting my time on this site and other “social media”, I don’t need to waste more of it by seeing shitty commenters regularly. You tag them to avoid, I block them to avoid. We are doing very similar actions, but I don’t even see them and waste my time reading the tag that tells me they suck

      Idk. You do you but curating my online experience is not a red flag, it’s healthy

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    “People” as in actual humans? None, I think.

    If I block those with frequent trash takes, I won’t get to downvote them next time. Other reasonable people would then see their future posts with higher scores.

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      I’d argue voting system is overrated.

      I had quite a few comments downvoted into oblivion because my opinion was unpopular in some corners of Lemmy.

      Like, go ahead and make a same political statement at .ml or .world, or come to some specific community to argue against the OP.

      Or, in reverse, there are plenty of examples when hateful or wrong BS was upvoted to infinity.

      I’ve seen this again and again with others, and I can confidently say voting is not a good metric for reason.

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    Not that many, just obvious bots/scams. The app I use has user tagging so I can assign a color tag and text tag per user. Red = for me, do not engage and yellow = for me, engage with caution.

    I tend not to block real humans, even the trolls, because often times the responses are interesting to me. I’ve learned some real facts about my trans peeps here on Lemmy because some people took the time to give informative responses to the community’s benefit, despite the question being an obvious troll attempt.

    Some of my tags include yellow for “AI slop spreader” and red for “TERFy troll”.

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      I found myself inadvertly doing the same thing. Only my color scheme is far from discipline. My basic think is like: “This comment is making me feel mauve.” Done.

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        Synesthetic vibes, I dig it. Your comment is very forest -> olive green. Which is good, FYI.

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          Can’t wait till I see a comment from you after I’ve forgotten about this moment. I won’t know what I was thinking, but the vibes will be right.

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    I’ve only blocked communities for AI-generated content and obvious spam. I haven’t blocked any users here yet and have almost never done that since I tend not to take the things they say personally and other people’s responses to them can be entertaining. There are some bots I’ve blocked too.

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    I have 0 people blocked

    I would only block if someone would follow me around, harassing me on every post or something, which hasn’t happened yet in Lemmy

    From the sound of it, you might want to relax your trigger finger juuuuust a little

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    like 15, but 7 of them are alts of the same user

    Edit: its closer to 30, extremely toxic people or propagandists

    I used to just not block so I can downvote them when I see them, but its getting increasingly more toxic and I had to block them.

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    12 instances and rough estimate between 100 and 150 people blocked. Note a lot of them are blocked for posting spam ads or being bots, but a lot are blocked due to behavior. Fuck 'em. I only have so much time on this earth, and I’m not spending any more of it dealing with fuckheads than I have to.

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    Oh dear, now I’m wondering if I’m on your list or not :)

    I only have two bot accounts blocked, not even sure if they’re still active.