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.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zone
    7412·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com
      181·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
        13·
        10 months ago

        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”.

    • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 months ago

      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

  • Ashy@lemmy.wtf
    381·
    10 months ago

    Blocking the instances, too? Damn you must be really mad over this.

    • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
      29·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
        121·
        10 months ago

        That’s good. As regular users you don’t want to interact with this kind of pessimism anyways.

        • Pr0v3n@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          10 months ago

          Fair point. I’m not nearly as active here as I was on Reddit so that’s perfectly reasonable.

    • Pr0v3n@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Pr0v3n@lemmy.worldOP
      32·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
        23·
        10 months ago

        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?

  • DoomBot5@lemmy.world
    183·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee
      2·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    141·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
    10·
    10 months ago

    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?

    • Pr0v3n@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Nougat@kbin.social
    10·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
    10·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • irish_link@lemmy.world
    112·
    10 months ago

    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

  • Corroded@leminal.space
    61·
    10 months ago

    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.