Well there’s no karma so it’s not karma farming lol. And for people who are browsing in mainly subscriptions, they will only see it if it ends up in the communities they are subscribed to. I think this is the intended use of Lemmy.
I never understood this opinion on Reddit and it remains the same here. The reason you see these posts multiple times is because there isn’t enough content. Limiting the way people contribute is going to make the problem worse, not better. The real solution is to post the type of content you want to see. If it is more valuable to the community, as you say, it will rise in visibility through upvotes.
The solution to no content is not bot generated garbage being spammed, it’s getting better moderators who don’t just willy nilly ban everyone they slightly dislike, that’s how you generate real user content, by letting the users actually post content
What you do is what’s limiting people from generating original content
How is this bot generated garbage though? it’s just an article that was posted to three communities where it was relevant. This argument makes no sense, and again, if there’s enough good content, and people don’t like this article for whatever reason, it won’t appear on your feed because the better stuff will rise to the top. Right now you see basically everything posted because Lemmy is small, and yes, sometimes that means stuff that isn’t the best fit for a community or isn’t that interesting. But again, vote and post what you find interesting and this problem will be solved by the nature of the platform. Other people posting does not in any way prevent you from doing that.
Also, it’s not what I do it’s what basically everyone on here does who contributes content. I didn’t even make this post. But if I did I would have shared it to multiple communities it seemed relevant too because I would think people there might be interested in it. We’re not selling anything, we’re not trying to farm karma for some nefarious secret business, we’re just trying to make Lemmy a more engaging place to be. So trash-talking people for just trying to help is really harmful to the platform.
Well that’s news to me about some secret karma score. But I doubt that’s the goal here since it has no relevance to anything currently.
I disagree with basically everything else you wrote. This is a news article and a world news article. It’s not an advertisement for shoes or something inappropriate. So what is wrong with posting it in multiple relevant communities? If you don’t like news, then yeah, you’re not going to be interested. But that’s on you to set up your feed so that you get content you are interested in, and not content you aren’t interested in. I don’t understand people who just view the main feed and then complain that not everyone shares their interests. That’s always going to be the case and there is no way around it except by customizing your feed.
Different communities definitely have different content, so I don’t know where you are getting that from. Maybe you need to check out some different communities. But obviously there’s going to be a lot of overlap between different news communities. You could argue that they are a bit redundant, and yes, that’s true, but that’s the nature of the fediverse. Different instances sometimes have very similar communities, and so they do share a lot of the same content. This is also true on Reddit by the way, you just have identical communities with slightly different names.
This is so far from what we’re even discussing I’m not going to even engage with this. This person posted one article three times. They did not spam it across every community over multiple days. I’ve literally never seen that happen on Lemmy.
It’s the equivalent of karma whoring on reddit, where supermods just mass spam news articles to every subreddit they own and drown out all user activity and replace it with bot posted garbage
this is the opposite of “user generated”, no user is generating any content apart from a handful of people with bots