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