I'm of the opinion that it's not
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My reasoning is as follows: Promoting smaller instances, because of the volume of posting it makes smaller instances more recognizable, making comms on fitting smaller instances, protecting against the imposter problem and better interconnecting smaller instances
Besides, if I really wanted to do block evasion, it would be far more efficient to use random names. Each account would last far longer before becoming "recognized"
Also, unlike corpo social media, likes and upvotes are worthless here.
Kind of hard to block you when most people do so and then assume the problem is fixed, not realizing that you have all of these accounts.
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I tried telling OP that they weren't promoting small instances simply by using them to post to other instances because most Lemmy users are already on their chosen instance to begin with just yesterday. I also told them that they were just making it more difficult for users to curate feeds since OP makes it next to impossible to block. OP didn't care.
Dingding! Absolutely correct!
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Kind of hard to block you when most people do so and then assume the problem is fixed, not realizing that you have all of these accounts.
Jesus Christ.
Also which app is that?
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Claims to promote smaller instances, only posts to the same communities on the largest servers...
Yes the large instance of poweruser.forum !jellyfin@poweruser.forum or !cybersecurity@infosec.pub or !science@mander.xyz or !biology@mander.xyz oh yea definitely the massive instance of discuss.online !retro_gaming@discuss.online or !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org or !hoch@lemmy.sdf.org or the juggernaut of instances civilloquy.com !nottheonion@civilloquy.com or even *gasp" lemmy.cafe !gunnerkrigg@lemmy.cafe or even !corvids@sopuli.xyz or !mediapreservation@pawb.social or !TheShitpostOffice@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !electronics@discuss.tchncs.de or !music@lemmy.sdf.org
You don't need to use your dozens of accounts to do that. Even if you create communities on these instances with those dozens of accounts, you can still opt to use a single account to actually contribute instead of looking like a spam network. Why not do that? And no, it's not "promoting" a small instance to make posts to other instances with them. I again would argue that most Lemmy users don't pay attention to which instance an OP is signed up to.
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Jesus Christ.
Also which app is that?
It's Boost on Android.
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I usually go some hours between posts of similar articles, to try to break them up. They might stack if you're viewing a comm directly if it isn't that busy of one, but they shouldn't on your main feeds
Not sure if yours are the ones I see or not as I don't really check names of posters too often, but it does come up at times.
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To me it's reading from different perspectives and other's writing style. It's really important when it comes to political stuff or anything else that you need to base a decision on.
But I think it applies even just to plain articles about a niche you follow.
Like, maybe some new GPU features get released for Linux or something. Gamingonlinux might cover it from a Gaming perspective whereas Phoronix might focus more on the hardware aspect of things and the original blog post or changelog or whatever might just give a mostly a list of changes and a description.
I several times see multiple posts on different communities I follow with the same exact article. It's exhausting.
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I several times see multiple posts on different communities I follow with the same exact article. It's exhausting.
This post is about similar topic, not exactly same article. Crossposting is a core functionality of the fediverse. Consider not following multiple communities with a similar topic if you want to see less duplicate posts.
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This post is about similar topic, not exactly same article. Crossposting is a core functionality of the fediverse. Consider not following multiple communities with a similar topic if you want to see less duplicate posts.
Yeah, I know. And even if cross posting is a feature, what I see is not cross posts, but literal duplicates. Cross posts link to the original post,most of the duplicates I see don't. Either users don't use the cross post feature or it's finicky.
Due to the fragmented nature of the fediverse there would be multiple posts I would miss if I didn't follow several similar communities, I guess I'll need to wait until people actually do crosspost and then implement a feature in the app I use to auto read them so they stay hidden. Idk.
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To me it's reading from different perspectives and other's writing style. It's really important when it comes to political stuff or anything else that you need to base a decision on.
But I think it applies even just to plain articles about a niche you follow.
Like, maybe some new GPU features get released for Linux or something. Gamingonlinux might cover it from a Gaming perspective whereas Phoronix might focus more on the hardware aspect of things and the original blog post or changelog or whatever might just give a mostly a list of changes and a description.
Would be cool if there was a way to group multiple threads of the same topic with different persectives into a megathread.
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Yeah, I know. And even if cross posting is a feature, what I see is not cross posts, but literal duplicates. Cross posts link to the original post,most of the duplicates I see don't. Either users don't use the cross post feature or it's finicky.
Due to the fragmented nature of the fediverse there would be multiple posts I would miss if I didn't follow several similar communities, I guess I'll need to wait until people actually do crosspost and then implement a feature in the app I use to auto read them so they stay hidden. Idk.
implement a feature in the app I use to auto read them so they stay hidden
Sure would be great if they would be automatically grouped or automatically marked as read
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Post one article from a trusted source like Reuters or AP News. If you want to link other articles, post links to them underneath the main post, either in the post text or in a comment. No need to flood feeds with recycled articles.
This is the solution I like best. I do like having multiple versions of a story to read though!
