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.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
    475·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 months ago

      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

    • AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com
      61·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
        6·
        5 months ago

        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”.

  • cali_ash
    26·
    5 months ago

    Blocking the instances, too? Damn you must be really mad over this.

    • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
      17·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
        21·
        5 months ago

        That’s good. As regular users you don’t want to interact with this kind of pessimism anyways.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    14·
    5 months ago

    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

    • Pr0v3n@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
        1·
        5 months ago

        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?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    131·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • DoomBot5@lemmy.world
    132·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • Nougat@kbin.social
    7·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • irish_link@lemmy.world
    81·
    5 months ago

    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

  • Corroded@leminal.space
    1·
    5 months ago

    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.