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.
My brother in arms! I don’t usually block the instances or user immediately but I do down vote all of them, same for when people post the same articles on multiple days in a row (like a lot of that palworld shit recently). I don’t care if it is a different user.
Bonus points for those accounts that join up and start posting inane bullshit questions to asklemmy or similar communities, one after another. Yes we need content but why should we just accept bullshit low effort content for the sake of having “content”?
(Now I’m conflicted, do I upvote you because I agree, or down vote because personally in my opinion that’s a good opinion)
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
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.
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.
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”.
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.
