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This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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.
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".
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
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.
Fair point. I’m not nearly as active here as I was on Reddit so that’s perfectly reasonable.
I guess I should have been more specific in my post. I don’t block the large communities like news and whatnot, but it’s the really tiny obscure ones with a single person spamming them to get them off the ground. The subsections of subsections of hobbies type of thing. I don’t want to see the content of a dozen types of Linux distro, or someone making the same type of art 5 times in a row on my all feed. I did come across as a bit crass on my post, that’s on me. I’m not as jaded as I come across, just annoyed at some of the quirks of All I notice every day.
I mean. You can make posts too. Don't block one guy that's carrying the content of lemmy. I love you @The_[email protected]
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The legend himself! Thank you for what you do!
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.
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.
I’m with you there. This is one of those problems that I wish someone could easily solve but I’m really not holding my breath. That seems like the tricky bit where it hasn’t been figured out technically within the platform. While it seems like you could solve the problem by basically being able to create meta communities where all communities with the same name get grouped as one large virtual community, it doesn’t solve for cases where two are named different but are the same topic and then it opens things up to abuse where an off topic community is created.
So then it becomes something where communities need to choose to federate with each other but how? Who gets final say?
Not to mention how things get handled when there are multiple posts on the same topic. Are they merged? Are the duplicates removed? What about comments? What happens on the backend? The sheer amount of code one would need to modify to have such a feature would just be overwhelming I would think so it’s not surprising it hasn’t been done yet.
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.
I wouldn't block the communities otherwise you're going to end up with nothing to scroll through. While lemmy is building itself its going to have repeating content that hits front page. I use sync to block links that I see posted a lot maybe that's worth trying?
I guess I should have been more specific in my post. I don’t block the large communities like news and whatnot, but it’s the really tiny obscure ones with a single person spamming them to get them off the ground. The subsections of subsections of hobbies type of thing. I don’t want to see the content of a dozen types of Linux distro, or someone making the same type of art 5 times in a row on my all feed. I did come across as a bit crass on my post, that’s on me. I’m not as jaded as I come across, just annoyed at some of the quirks of All I notice every day.
I would love an intelligent filter that could just simply hide duplicate/cross-posts.
That may exist somewhere and I am in fact currently looking for a new Lemmy client for Android, so if anyone knows of one with such a feature, please let me know. Or even a good open source client that accepts feature requests.
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?
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.
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.
Voyager shows if it’s a cross post
I'll just
So I don't have to talk to you either
Listen to people when they tell you who they are.
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