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None. Gotta have someone going against the crazies.

4 users 1 instance. Mostly propaganda spammers. I wouldnt mind if the things they posted were high quality and thought provoking but its the lowest tier slop journalism and opinion pieces from people with no subject matter expertise.

A number, but they're mostly posting bots and people who are prolific gay porn posters (or other porn that I don't want to see).

Eight, but this account is only a couple weeks old.

32, most of them being spammers or serial posters, with the occasional bad faith and/or too hostile or angry person that I simply do not wish to read in the future.

I don't block entire instances because my feed only shows me what I'm subscribed to (meaning I don't see much of those communities that are the most likely to trigger shitty/low effort content posting) and I've not yet felt the need to censor a whole instance no matter how many morons, or worse, are thriving in it... simply because I'm not forced to read them.

BTW, when I moved from Lemmy to piefed the block list was one the two things I wished to bring with me. I could not bring the other one (my posts/comments) but, hey, at least I was able to keep spam and trolls at bay ;)

Edit: clarifications.

Around 40, mostly bots. The community block list is much longer.

On here? Like 40 something, but largely spammers. Blocked far more subs though, mostly of content that does nothing for me. On Bluesky I'm subscribed to a blocklist or two for MAGA types and tend to block anyone who follows me with a suspiciously high follow count.

One, with another account I'll block if I see them again, but I'm fairly certain they're the same person. These accounts are a teenager asking any sexual question that pop into their mind.

I get being curious, but if you've seen Mickey/Michael around you already know it's a bit much.

About 20 people, mostly Nicole variations and a bunch of trolls.

About 175 communities. I have absolutely no interest in sports, anime or related, and I'm very limited in the foreign languages I speak.

I've got PugJesus and like three other people.

My blocked instances and communities, however, are too long to count. Probably well over a hundred.

None. I'm not a coward.

4. Don't remember why.

14 communities and 6 users. I mainly browse by Local/New no it’s usually overzealous new communities that veer too close to spam trying to generate content for the community. I try and wait them out but sometimes I just give up.

On the user side I think it’s mostly all alts for one troll

mostly spam bots. I can't find any irl humans in my killfiles.

I'm sitting on 40 blocks in 2 years. It's almost entirely assholes who have trouble with reading comprehension or who like to attack people on a whim.

About a hundred. The list used to be thousands of users long when I tried filtering out everyone pushing extremist policies or just being hostile in general - but it turns out that’s most people here, since my feed completely died down. Now I’m trying a different approach: blocking only the worst offenders and using keyword-based content filtering to hide the comments that poison my mind.

AI-powered content filtering can’t come soon enough. Even keyword filtering is a blunt tool. I’d rather just describe the kind of content I don’t want to see and have it filtered out before it ever reaches me. I’m sick of how angry everyone is here. Most people probably don’t notice it much since it’s usually directed at people they dislike too, but anger hits me differently. I don’t like feeling that emotion, and I don’t like being around angry people.

On here? No one. On other platforms, only two people have ever given me enough grief that I needed to.

Only about fifteen or so. A few are bot accounts that I don't want to see, a few sent me spam during the whole Fediverse Chick thing, and the last few are just regular people who aren't doing anything necessarily wrong but who I just find tiresome and unpleasant in some way or another

I block all the repost bots. Pro, ozma, etc

Very few myself. I only block people if I see them as actively wanting to do harm to me

How do i tell in voyager

I have a few. Mostly annoying ad hominem assholes.

Only 14 for people and I can say for sure that 3 of those are alts of one person. Not sure how many of the others may be alts or even more alts of that one guy. Im a big block proponent but I don't believe in doing it casually with individuals. I do way more with communities but like half of that is because the language preference often does not seem to work.

I've blocked a few repost bots, but I think only one human-controlled account.