I commonly browse all by new, and I block users who crosspost any given article to more than one other community. To me it’s almost always a sign that they actually don’t care about the topic or contents, but instead their own post count and user recognition.
i see name multiple times in a row in new, i block. i see bots, i block.
time will come that i will ask on a self post “why am i alone in lemmy?”
I wonder if you’ve blocked me. Lat night, two different posts of mine got on all. Wasn’t my doing. It wasn’t a crosspost though, two different posts in two different communities.
no I have not. I only block mostly bots truth be told. I do understand that there are multiple communities in different instances with the same name and purpose. I do not block indiscriminately, I do look at the history and debate myself first before deciding on it.
So, serious question:
There’s a group “Progressive Metal”.
There’s another group “Music”.
I post things to both, but almost all the time when I post to the former I cross-post to the latter because all progressive metal is music (and thus topical) but not vice versa.
Do I get blocked?
For me, you are. Imagine thematic communities in a tree-like chart: there’s the Entertainment community, there’s the Music community, and there are the communities by subgenres, music memes community, artists’ pains and struggles community. The narrow topic should belong to the farthest branch of this tree, IMO. The higher-level communities (wider themes) should only get posts that do not meet any of the lower-level (narrower themes). The narrow community should form as soon as the high-level one gets regular posts of enough quantity to form one (subjectively).
This stance would make sense if groups were in any way tree-structured.
They aren’t.
The two groups I mentioned above are (I think) on entirely different instances. (If they aren’t, they could be.) There’s no hierarchy.
Eh, meh, like I’d have to see it. The way you’re explaining it, I probably wouldn’t block. Again, because it seems like you’re trying to enrich communities that mean a damn to you. If you were just flinging shit to be the king of shit, who broke the news of the shit first… yeah, I’d block.
Am I on your blocklist? I’ve done some cross posting of my own content. Things have settled down now, but I know for awhile there it wasn’t really clear which communities were going to take off.
Nah. I think my post comes across a little more rigid in theory, than in my practice. I’m blocking people that are really just spamming shit, with little interaction with the communities they’re targetting. If it seems like someone is legitimately trying to engage, I won’t.
Would this count for OC? I write political journalism pieces that I post in a couple of different places here on Lemmy, for critique and of course eyeballs.
I wonder if I’m one of the culprits.
fediverse is made of fragmented communities, each having different levels of community reach and engagement. I post news of the ethnic & communal genocide going on in Manipur, India and knowing that the government led by Hindu supremacist Modi only pays attention to internatonal pressure, cross-post to international news communities. There are 3 such (that I know of) and each has a diferet audience.
It is not for post count nor user recognition nor boosts (none of which are of any value IRL), it is to gather global attention to a barbaric genocide currently taking place in a country recignised by the world as being democratic and whose leader is welcomed and feted by world leaders. Today is the 83rd day of this ethnic & communal genocide, and only the EU Parliament has stepped up to condemn it. You might have seen the news of the 2 womeanded over by cops to themob, to be stripped naked, paraded, molested, and gangraped? It is but one of the 100 such happening, in the words of the state’s rotten Chief Minister who is considered by many as an active supporter of the genocide.
I crossspost so every time any country or world leader welcomes him, the citizens of that nation know who their nation welcomes & honours. My effort is only a drop in the ocean and probably worth nothing, but it is essential for the victims that the crimes committed against them are not hidden.
