I just leave my feed on All to see a bit of everything, but it drives me nuts when I see someone either post the same link in quick succession to 3+ instances at the same time, so they all end up next to each other on my feed, or you post several related posts (photography, articles etc) within a few minutes so your name and all your context blocks out a large chunk of the All feed, I downvote each post, then block you as a poster, and each of the instances as well. I understand cross posting and wanting to create content for the community is something you want to do to get the Lemmy ball rolling more, but spamming is just extremely annoying, regardless of the content.
but spamming is just extremely annoying, regardless of the content
But none of what you described is spamming. If they’re posting one relevant piece of content to any given community, that’s just…how a link aggregator like Lemmy is supposed to be used.
Like you say, they’re creating more content for the platform to engage with. This is a good thing.
It’s kinda annoying if you’re browsing all, but if you aren’t there’s no way to get more visability really. I get why you’d do that even if I just rapidly scroll past and ignore them all. I totally agree
But I see his point about seeing some posts repeated too many times. I know technologically its tough but there are ways to filter out repeats.
I know technologically its tough
It actually wouldn’t be tough at all to do a simple form of it. Lemmy already detects cross-posts and Lemmy web shows a link to other instances of the same link from the post page. It could have a setting to say “only show me the first of any given cross-post in my feed”.
Posting identical content to multiple communities is the definition of spamming. It creates more content, but not more new content, which could be argued has negative value on a federated platform like Lemmy. The first post has value; everything after is noise.
Blocking the instances, too? Damn you must be really mad over this.
And, like, wouldn’t they pretty quickly run out of instances? Or at least end up blocking the major ones and barely seeing any content on their feed.
That’s good. As regular users you don’t want to interact with this kind of pessimism anyways.
I mean. You can make posts too. Don’t block one guy that’s carrying the content of lemmy. I love you @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website
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Of course not, because he creates good content for a wide array of communities, but I don’t see 6 of his posts in a row; he’s easily carrying this platform on his shoulders.
So what’s your point? Thepicardmaneuver is exempt from your rule because although, he creates a bunch of content, you haven’t seen several of his posts in a row? How about me? What if I decided to out out 3 posts in a row all of a sudden? You’ll block me?
It’s almost like you didn’t comprehend what OP posted.
I rarely downvote (only truly reprehensible shit). I have yet to block. I want lemmy to thrive. There will be plenty of time to limit reach later.
Lemmy really has a problem with too many communities. It feels like everyone is creating a new community for their super specific topic and put their one post about it there.
Kbin handles this with smaller “crossposted” entries for posts with the same URL - whether they’re from the same or different people. Kind of brilliant.
Lemmy has this feature too, but practically none of the apps implement it
Voyager does, from what I read yesterday?
I wasn’t aware of that, thanks for the correction!
Yea voyager shows it as a cross post
I do find it funny that every time I hear a complaint in our localized fediverse, it’s always something that Kbin has otherwise solved or made better.
I am with you! It drives me nuts seeing the exact same thing right after another 3-4 times in a row.
I have been blocking the user that does that for the past few months.
The only part I am not with you is blocking the instance. Blocking the use is enough in my opinion. It’s hard enough moderating content. An instant shouldn’t need to scour other instances to find out if it duplications happening at the same time.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not on you about it I’m just saying, I think you might be losing out on a potential gain by blocking an instance due to a user
Seems a bit angry, you could just scroll on.
To where? More of the same repeated post?
So I don’t have to talk to you either
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I get the first point. I usually don’t crosspost what I post. I’ll just rotate through what communities I post into. I don’t really get blocking someone posting rapidly if it’s all different content.
I imagine a lot of the time they are just posting stuff they’ve been meaning to with the free time that they have. Chances are too it’s one of the Lemmy power-users that make up a lot of the content here.
Voyager shows if it’s a cross post
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And they always seem to have an obsession with Star Trek…
And that’s bad because why? :P
Not a bad thing, just a really odd consistency.