I think you’re right. But why?
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cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Is this just a re-posting bot? I literally made this meme this morning and posted it somewhere else. This user seems to have posted >10 memes over a few minutes.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
cm0002@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Just an RSS feed with notifications lol
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 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 niche comms. > >Megathread on the issue > >Some highlights from the link: > >>"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167 >> >>“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/30673342 >> >>.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia lemmy.world/post/29222558 >> The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: lemmy.world/post/18236068 >> >>“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/31595035 >> >>General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/27426510 >> >>“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/27352415 > >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.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I thought I saw comments from you, but there are people taking other’s names on different instances. A name doesn’t mean much anymore. I wish sh.itjust.works would move to piefed and we could have a tagging system.
cm0002@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Lol yea, I had that imposter account problem myself some months ago, like the ones on tucson.social and lonestar.mooo (and others) are all imposters
It’s partly why I like having so many accounts now, it helps mitigate a future occurrence lmao
cm0002@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Nope not a bot
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 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 niche comms. > >Megathread on the issue > >Some highlights from the link: > >>"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167 >> >>“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/30673342 >> >>.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia lemmy.world/post/29222558 >> The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: lemmy.world/post/18236068 >> >>“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/31595035 >> >>General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/27426510 >> >>“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/27352415 > >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.
SARGE@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Honestly I’ve thought cm002 was a bot before as well, but they engage in comment sections often enough to say either it’s not, or it’s a user hopping on to check bot progress.
Either way, most likely case is it’s a user that saw a funny meme, and reposted it since not every sire is federated with others and some communities might not see it, especially if it’s to a world or ml domain.
Possibly related, I did not see your post from this morning, this is my first time seeing it. Not sure about federation between instances but yeah.
Also tangentially related, anyone remember the huge r*ddit drama over a poweruser constantly reposting things with top comment responses to farm karma? That was a fun glance into people who take imaginary internet points too seriously. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
the thing with reddit is that karma has a function. for example new users can’t post in most communities until they somehow get a lot of karma and posts from users with lots of past karma get pushed by their algos.
that’s why immaginary internet points are very serious on reddit and accounts with lots of it can (illegally) be sold for thousands of dollars to advertising companies.
this is the reason, i think it’s important to have votes in lemmy etc only matter per post/comment and only for sorting/displaying.
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
It does, it just doesn't display it; sites running Mbin do, though:
A screenshot of an Mbin profile showing the "reputation" tab
SARGE@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Ew. Gross. I liked not knowing better. Ah well, at least I can’t check it myself so I don’t really care much. I didn’t want oemmy to feel like a competition like I used to feel occasionally with r*ddit.
Also this is the first time I’ve noticed my name doesn’t show up as “Miles O’brien” for everyone. Now I’m sad :(
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does it? I thought mbin just tallied up the votes to get that number, I wasnt aware it was a tracked value for the fediverse.
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
I'm not sure tbh, but it makes sense if it's just a tally
ngdev@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
no they farm karma to sell the accounts for various purposes