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?
nah, patnou is ok if a little lost
I don’t block anyone but I do post frequently. I only ever get annoyed when someone is posting the same thing in multiple communities at the same time.
No, not consciously. However, I do block accounts that reply to me in a shitty or condescending way. Life’s too short to deal with these people and I’ll never meet them in real life. I’ve wasted far too much time engaging with arseholes over on Reddit, but since I’ve moved here I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the civility of most discourse. So that’s why I block anyone wrecking my experience.
Only if I don’t like the content they post
There’s that one guy who keeps making accounts with the same cm00* username but different servers. I wish piefed/blorp could block accounts based on a regex , wildcard, or other filter.
Context
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.
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.
Beep is another one like that. I don’t block them specifically so I can call out their art theft, because they feed people’s comics to AI to remove the watermark.
Yes and this operator does not seem to even read the content they repost. After they posted very low quality misleading items a few times, I blocked all of their accounts.
I review each and every crosspost since it’s all done manually, I only filter out propaganda (like the constant deluge of Russian propaganda on .ml) and spams/scams
Obviously I’m human so I make mistakes, it happens, but the point is you can have the freedom to actually call out and/or discuss such things on another instance without needing to worry about getting censored and/or banned by the .ml admin for doing so
I’m pretty sure that they specifically repost things posted from .ml accounts. They aren’t looking at the posts or hoping to farm “karma” or whatever, they’re trying to de-populate the instance.
Can be pretty annoying when all the .ml posts line up with the cm00* posts.
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.
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 :)
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?
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
What does OQB mean?
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.
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
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.
Yes, the operator is very public about their goals. This doesn’t make it any less annoying and by all measures it is not having the desired effect. I like that I can just block and make it all disappear.
How do you block all their accounts at once?
Unfortunately I only know how to do it one by one but that works fine.
It’s absolutely having the desired effects, when I started I was needing to sift through 100-200 posts every morning when I start
Now its down to 30-40 and select comms I monitor increase in MAUs
I’m not sure how come anyone would try to farm karma when Lemmy doesn’t have karma points of any kind.
Yep. I’m not trying to see somebody just showing me the top 50 posts off their reddit feed day after day after day. That shit sure does numbers here though.
Ever had that reddit friend IRL who’s just always showing you reddit stuff you already saw? That’s who those are. They don’t comment, they don’t post oc, they never mix up their posts, it’s a bot. Straight to the block bin.
Only a few obvious bots because they were filling up my feed. I like seeing posts from users, especially when it comes to news.
i wonder how many people have blocked me so far…
It just wouldn’t be the same without you here.
I never block you, but I always tag you and your many alts with some variation of
Definitely A Womanor something else that implies that I think you’re probably a dude who gets off on horny posting as a woman.kinda transphobic but ok
🫡
I block posters and commenters I don’t want to see. Its that simple.
I used to avoid it because I thought I’d create an echochamber, but I’ve come to realise that there’s a few users with fixations about specific issues that just give me the shits honestly.
Someone once told me that blocking people to curate your feed was a valid use case and I’ve never looked back. I don’t care too much about an echo chamber if I am removing people who are absolutely unhinged.
Are you talking about age gaps dude?
But how would you feel if a financially stable, but socially flawed, middle aged woman from the South, were to date a moderately financially stable, but socially accepted, young man from Singapore? What are your thoughts on that?
No.
For the most part…no, I don’t. I’m still of the mindset that there’s not enough people posting across communities, so blocking accounts is an absolutely last resort for me personally.
That said, there is one account that I know of that I question if it’s really a person or a bot. I won’t say who. However, they post multiple times an hour across a lot of communities. (I even went to their profile once to see when there would be a sizable break/gap for when they should be sleeping and didn’t find a gap within a 24 hour window!) I actually removed myself from one community because the posting there became way too frequent. Elsewhere that same account posts relevant content, so that was a better balance for me.
TL;DR - Usually no, so long as they’re posting what I consider acceptable/decent quality content. I’m more likely to remove myself from one community than block an account to tone down the level of posts in my subscribed feed.
I definitely understand finding it annoying though.
Also, welcome to Lemmy!
At least they are posting something and keeping the community active. We can’t all be lurkers.
Certain new accounts come out of the gate posting to the same 5 or 6 groups before deleting themselves.
I get suspicious over every new account.
I block them if
(f * t - p - e) / q * rpasses a certain threshold, where f is the frequency of posting, t is how annoyed I am by the general theme or topic of those posts, p is the cuteness of their profile pic, e is the amount of effort they put into each post, q is the overall quality of the posts, and r is a random number generated by my subconscious.r is a random number generated by my subconscious.
I think that’s just called a “constant.” Like: “Kbal’s Constant”. You don’t have to explain it, it just is. You should probably come up with a Greek letter for it tho.
a random number
I think that’s just called a “constant.”
I think you need to brush up on the concepts of ‘random’ and ‘constant’
lel yeah good point.
Doesn’t constant imply unchanging? For this to work the formula would need to have a random variable times the constant, which seems to make calling it a constant miss the point.
υ?
No, mainly because who else is really posting?
I have six nicoles in my block list 😄
thats amateur hour compared to my cm0002 blocks. got to be at least a dozen.
Ah, Nicole. Classic
