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This is the ninth spammy cm0002 account that I've now had to block. cm0002 makes the threadiverse seem like it's got a spam issue (it does, it just happens to be this single user for the most part). I have never once seen a post from any cm0002 account where I thought "wow, I'm sure glad I saw this post again!"
You make it impossible to filter out your spam because you have dozens of accounts that you switch between. I hope that one day, admins of instances realize what you're doing and blanket ban your accounts for spam.
Note for other users, this was already posted twice to other communities with heavy cross over between the subscribers. It's cm0002's classic karma farming (even though that kind of thing shouldn't matter here).
Maybe I'm in the minority here but at least the communities I'm in, I usually only see one post and it's from this account. Like no one else has posted this in any community I'm subscribed to so I don't see it as spam at all. I will say the account posts a lot but I never get duplicates which means the alternative would be for the community to be a lot emptier. I guess I just don't see the problem.
For me, while I find the duplicate posts annoying (since I tend to go to the "all" section), it's the fact that they have dozens of accounts that they do this on for no reason that really makes me dislike them. It makes it impossible to block them.
That's fair, I hardly ever use all because there's just too much stuff that I'm not interested in, but I can see how having multiple accounts would get very annoying.
Tbh, I like their posts and I don't see as much double posts. When I look at the up vote I feel like I am not alone. Maybe I am naive, but I think they are doing their best contributing to the Threadiverse; as you already said - there is no karma here.
Reasons for multiple accounts
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
genuine question.
I was of the impression that one of the major selling points of de-federated services such as this was to not have to engage in circumvention to get around policies and rules that you don't agree with.
If you don't agree with the administration of an instance then don't use that instance (or start your own and de-federate that instance i suppose).
Dialogue about the policies and subjective opinion makes sense, if that's how you want to engage, but the somewhat decentralised nature of the fediverse make someone power tripping as an admin on an instance is easy enough to avoid by just not engaging.
More succinctly , why would you want to expend effort to be part of an instance that foundationally doesn't align with your values.
To put it another way, a mod doing their utmost to create an echo chamber of their liking (no matter how distasteful that liking might be) is allowable within the bounds of how this was all designed, the system working as intended.
Whereas creating multiple accounts to avoid bans, while technically possible, seems kind of outside of the intended process.
I could be very wrong about how all this works however, as my grasp of the intricacies is somewhat shallow.
It's mostly correct, and you see exactly that with the other 2 Tankie Triad instances hex and grad. But for Lemmy.ml specifically they're special because
Which is why I expend the effort instead of just ignoring them like I do hex and grad
Another issue is that because of this special position .ml is in it has been expressed to me in the past by an admin that they and a few other main admins don't want to risk possible support from dessalines if they have the audacity to defed
The multiple accounts aren't for avoiding bans and no account of mine is currently banned (except for the ones I don't control (had a bit of an imposter problem last year)) they're really just for those 4 reasons listrd.
As for user blocks im actually rolling out a blurb on my user profile bios that directs people to a place that lists all active accounts used for this crossposting campaign. I'm pasting it in on accounts I start posting from as I go.
Again, i could be wrong here, but it sounds like you're expecting a group of people who have shown no interest in moving on any of their positions to change their minds because you are drawing attention to content and behaviour...that they don't deem to be an issue in the first place.
That sounds like screaming into the void to me, but as i said, i really don't understand the nuances at play.
Isn't the system expected response to such irreconcilable disagreements to start your own instance (with optional hookers and blackjack), enforce your own rules and regulations there and let people decide which they prefer (if any)?
Makes sense.
Injecting activity into non-.ml comms and growing them beyond the .ml version is probably the next best thing to wide defederation.
At least it gives those advocating the Threadiverse on the outside something to say when people inevitably bring up tankies on Lemmy. Makes them less relevant.
Kinda, it helps dilute the waters further, but doesn't really solve the root issue
This makes sense.
It's probably something obvious i'm missing, but what is the root problem ?
The Lemmy network and the Threadiverse at large being associated as just a Tankie hangout
For example, this was from a Reddit thread last week I saw when it was just starting to get big:
In this case Rimu (PieFed dev) and others were quick to jump in and steer, so hopefully this whole boycotting/cross-posting campaign at the very least gives them more fuel when these comments come up on the outside something like "Tankies are there, but they don't have any important comms so you can just block those 3 instances or join [x] instance which blocks them for you"
I'm not sure catering to the opinions of random redditors is a useful approach, but that aside.
Which would be solved by creating an instance (or building up an existing instance) that isn't the triad.
Which would also be solved with the same solution.
From your list:
1 sounds like artificially inflating the numbers
2 isn't that useful IMO because without the actual content / ongoing engagement you just end up with multiple ghost communities.
3 i think the imposter problem is a user education error and/or could be better solved in a different manner.
4 this is what cross-posting is for right (though I'll admit that experience is lacklustre right now)? You don't need a whole account to cross-post between communities.
Artificially inflating the numbers might look like it helps in the short term, but is bringing someone here under false pretences a workable solution, or even a solution you want ?
It was but a mere example
It could help, but it's not a problem that any one solution is the solution. There's going to be some combination of solutions to actually solve it.
Not really, I might have a lot of accounts, but it's still only 1 per instance so it's not really inflating the numbers. Besides most go by monthly active users for gauging the Threadiverse health which because of my pattern I might not even make up 1 MAU lol
I don't just make them, I do my best to actively contribute to them, like I said I also post "organically sourced" content and not just crossposts for this very reason
Um I'm not sure how that would be a user education error? I'm talking about someone maliciously making an imposter account and posting heinous crap "in their name" But there is currently no technical solution on the Threadiverse afaik for it
Nah crossposts are a solution for a different problem, 4 is for when an instance hasn't federated with another instances remote comm yet and is therefore unknown to the instance
For example, I made this post to my comm at !gunnerkrigg@lemmy.cafe today from this toast.ooo instance I'm on rn
But toast.ooo never federated with that comm so as far as this instance knew !gunnerkrigg@lemmy.cafe didn't exist until I manually went to the comm by URL (toast.ooo/c/gunnerkrigg@lemmy.cafe) and subbed to it
Until then nobody on this instance would have been seeing posts from that comm in their c/all/new/whatever feed, even if a post went "viral". But now they will and for every other comm I sub to as I go
And that process happens a lot on these smaller instances I'm on, some will be missing even major comms like !pcgaming@lemmy.ca or !funny@sh.itjust.works
That's what I mean by helping interconnect smaller instances
Fair enough.
Also reasonable
Reasonable again.
I missed that, if that's whats happening i retract my implication.
I think imposter account is a misnomer, two accounts with the same name on different instances are distinct entities afaik,
like mike@gmail.com isn't the same as mike@outlook.com.
if you look at a post and it's written by "mike" and you don't look at the instance it's from you're only getting half of the information you need.
Solutions for this type of problem exist already (PGP keys etc), they just aren't very practical for regular people.
The "could be better solved in a different manner." part was mostly about how the underlying software for the instances might be changed to allow for some of these existing solutions to be integrated more seamlessly.
Or something entirely new, who knows.
I didn't know this is how it worked, makes sense in that context.
Oh so that's why I was seeing a lot of post from that account, I thought they were generous😨
I post a lot of organic sourced content too (this very post is one of them lmao), some are just not happy with my stance against lemmy.ml and my cross-posting/boycotting of them:
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?