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 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.
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.