Is there anything I can do about duplicates? I use Sync for Lemmy on Android.

    • teft's transporter clone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      2
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Block that bot user?

      That’s a stupid question. ;)

      Edit: Anyone downvoting this should be ashamed. It’s a reference to his username.

        • teft's transporter clone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          12 years ago

          His character on Deep Space 9 infiltrates the space station by impersonating an admiral. He does this by saying the following phrase anytime someone asks him a question: “That’s a stupid question”. Because he’s wearing an admiral uniform he gets away with his rudeness and the subordinates just let him infiltrate the station.

      • harmonea
        link
        fedilink
        12 years ago

        Not remembering a joke from an episode that aired 25 years ago doesn’t really rank high on most people’s shame-o-meters, my dude

      • @danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        If you can’t find the option to block in your preferred app, you can always go to your instance in a browser and block the user in your settings.

  • BarqsHasBite
    link
    fedilink
    English
    12 years ago

    For immediate change, sort by active or top 12 hour. Hot gives too much new.

  • @4am@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    12 years ago

    I moved instances recently and have been too lazy to migrate by subscriptions, so I’ve just been browsing on All with Top 6-Hour sort.

    The number of bot accounts that just spam post from RSS feeds every 15-30 minutes or so and get zero engagement are infuriating. No one interacts with it! Just give it up!

    “There is also a discussion over on Hacker News” well tell hacker news that the news we want to discuss is how to mitigate spam from shitty bots!

  • Eggyhead
    link
    fedilink
    02 years ago

    Soapbox opinion time. Post spamming to parallel communities across instances is antithetical to federation.

    Post spamming discourages users from federating with parallel communities on federated instances because users who do end up with feeds congested with duplicate posts. This encourages unsubscribing which results in reduced engagement across communities and isn’t fair to other contributors who choose not to post spam. The alternative would be to block the post spammer, which wouldn’t be ideal either, since articles are often still worth reading.

    If a post spammer is concerned about visibility from defederated instances, then I suggest using an instance that federates to more instances. Furthermore, please respect an instance’s choice to defederate from yours if that’s where you choose to be. If your instance was defederated from another, that means the users there do not want to see any posts from your instance, even if you think they do.

    I implore post spammers to reconsider the logic behind their actions, as the impact on the fediverse is more negative than positive.

  • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    -12 years ago

    You’ve been here for two months and you don’t know how to block users or bots?

    Yikes, Im scared of what your experience here has been like