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Do you block accounts that post with very high frequency? (fedinsfw.app)

submitted 1 week ago by Hirohito@fedinsfw.app to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Specifically the ones that post like bots but are not marked as bots.

The accounts that post into all sorts of comms including many they aren't a member of. The posts are usually pretty low quality and its clear the operator is not curating anything.

I find them annoying so I block. What do you think about it?

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[–] cm0002@lemdro.id 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yea that's right

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

Dessalines, head .ml admin, lead Lemmy dev actively spreading genocide denialism https://sh.itjust.works/post/61371958

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

You could always just block .ml :)

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I did not know the reason you did it; before today i thought it was just some kind of paranoia about always needing to register new accounts.

Have you ever put the context thing in your copied posts?

[–] cm0002@lemdro.id 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

some kind of paranoia about always needing to register new accounts.

I mean, you're not entirely wrong, the multiple accounts is for a few different reasons, but one of them is defense against impersonation accounts which has happened to me lol

But the main reasons for the many instance accounts are kinda unrelated to the ml crossposting kinda are, they are

Promoting smaller instances, because of the volume of my posting it helps makes smaller instances more recognizable

Making comms on fitting smaller instances (e.g. a programming comm id make on programming.dev)

Mitigating against the imposter problem

Better interconnecting smaller instances

Have you ever put the context thing in your copied posts?

I've thought about it, but ultimately decided against it, I felt it would make the thread in whatever comm I'm posting it in too off-topic. So instead i just comment it whenever it's inquired about

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What does OQB mean?

[–] cm0002@lemy.lol 1 points 4 days ago

Not sure why your comment didn't federate to my lemdro.id account lol

But it stands for Original Question By

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I could, but for the very reasons you cite instances don't defederate from them, I don't. I block individuals that post bullshit I don't like, but my feed is already small as it is without purging a sizable amount of it.

[–] cm0002@lemdro.id 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fair, but I can tell you that a lot of .ml comms only appear to be very large because they're one of the original instances so their comm subscriber counts are quite bloated with dead and deleted accounts (I don't think subscriber counts decrease for any reason other than you actually clicking the unsubscribe button on a comm)

If you take a look by MAUs (a much better metric to go by) the non.ml Threadiverse is actually very healthy

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

My decision isn't based on metrics, just by how many .ml posts/comments I see that I know I wouldn't if I'd blocked the instance. I know a lot of crap comes from them, and I don't doubt they're problematic, but for the most part, the shitty posts and comments from them are down voted to hell so I never see them, or are from users I've already blocked.