Not about this specific post (which might be a spam bot), but in general: If a post fits several community, I don’t think it’s something bad to crosspost it to them.
Posting the same thing to like 5 different communities at a time
Submitted 8 months ago by ptz@dubvee.org to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Korne127@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ptz@dubvee.org 8 months ago
I’m of the opinion that you should pick one. If there’s not enough engagement after a respectable period of time, post to another. I definitely don’t think one needs to broadcast their thoughts/opinions out on all frequencies every time.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Then you get, why are you reposting this, you just posted this 3 days ago.
The solution is to cross post, and let the users filter the content they don’t want. Why follow 5x different music communities using your logic?
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They posted it to any community that had “music” in the name regardless of if it fit. Either a spam bot or those annoying people who think more is always better when it comes to getting your name out there.
ptz@dubvee.org 8 months ago
Yeah, I just noticed that when I went into their profile after posting this. They just earned a spam ban.
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 months ago
It should be combined into one post appearing in all communities it’s crossposted to IMO. Maybe also with only one comment section under it, but that would bring some problems.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s e even worse on the NSFW instances.
It’ll be 20+ posts in a row by the same person.
Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As someone who used to post OC, it’s why I left. Nothing but OF spam bots and pics of pornstars. Reddit is somehow the better option, unfortunately.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I’ve been known to block users that cross-post like this often.
ptz@dubvee.org 8 months ago
Same.
gimpchrist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lol I saw it so much I had to click on it and I told myself if it sucked I would come back and block the user… turns out the song isn’t very good so now I don’t have to see it ever again
squid_slime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You fell for its trap
strawberry@kbin.run 8 months ago
mbin combines crossposts into one thing, so doesn't bother me. but even if I saw it multiple times, so what? scroll past
ptz@dubvee.org 8 months ago
Lemmy does that in the post view, but not in the feed (the UI has to wrangle those which is imperfect and only works if the posts are retrieved in the same fetch).
I do usually scroll past, but when there’s half a page of them, I get more than mildly annoyed lol.
DelilahBlack@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Lol literally just blocked it like 6 times lol
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
What UI is that?
andrew_s@piefed.social 8 months ago
Tesseract. You can use it for your own instance by logging in to it at https://tesseract.dubvee.org/ (which is a bit counterintuitive, because there's also a local Lemmy server there, but it works). Or self-host it of course (see https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract)
ptz@dubvee.org 8 months ago
Yep. Though that’s my dev version in the screenshot.
wagesj45@kbin.run 8 months ago
The point of federation is to connect different servers. Lemmy is not one website. It is many different websites that happen to share data. A link being posted to multiple websites is fine.
Maybe if you're seeing too many duplicate links, you're subscribed to too many duplicate magazines/subs/servers.
ptz@dubvee.org 8 months ago
Maybe if you’re seeing too many duplicate links, you’re subscribed to too many duplicate magazines/subs/servers.
That’s exactly the point. Most people are, too.
Oisteink@feddit.nl 8 months ago
There’s nothing wrong with posting the same post to several groups, as long as it’s a text post and not a link. I will also vote down or block people posting just a link
kia@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It would be nice if we could specify a priority list for communities (each user creates their own). If a post is crossposted to multiple communities, only the one posted to the community with the highest priority gets shown on the feed.
glimse@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They posted it to connectasong which is especially annoying. We have VERY specific posting rules over there! It’s a game!
ptz@dubvee.org 8 months ago
Bonus mildly infurating: How can it be an 90s song and an 80s song?
KillerTofu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Released in 89 and stayed on the charts through the 90?
ptz@dubvee.org 8 months ago
Uuuuughhhhh. Fine. lol. Take my upvote. 😆
They also posted it to 70’s music haha.