Because people are sweaty neckbeards who will be pedants at the cost of being tolerable.

Please just use the normal characters for the language you’re typing in.

Also, I don’t think you need to cross post. Lemmy is small enough that everyone will probably see both posts. I did, at least.

Haha, probably. I’m sorry about that.

The issue I think is mostly due to people thinking they need to crosspost or post the same content in multiple communities like this is Reddit. Since Lemmy is so small, people are likely to see both posts back to back in their feeds, so it’s just redundant and spammy. That’s mostly why I block accounts that post a lot.

It would be a really nice quality of life feature for Lemmy to add filtering so this kind of thing could be dealt with without blocking.

It’s both terrifying and hilarious that this is the first thing I thought of when I saw the image of that fat dude being an ICE member.

I also do this. If yt-dlp keeps failing, change the VPN location or download the latest build and it works.

I rarely down vote, but apparently I’ve blocked 7148 users/communities/instances on my first account.

Haha, yea. I also left Reddit when the API change happened.

I thought I was breaking the Voyager app with the number of accounts and communities I was blocking on my original account, so I made this new one. I needed to force close the app whenever I tried viewing the whole blocked list…

While I appreciate the effort devs put into making open source alternatives to a closed source app, the naming convention is really starting to get irritating…

Discord splits out to

• Armcord
• Legcord
• Now Sharkord

YouTube has

• InnerTune
• Which turned into OuterTune

Libre-this, Libre-that, Libre-cock and balls.

…I would love for devs to separate their software’s name just a little bit more from the thing they’re trying to replace. Please. Just be more unique. The name can still have a nod to what it’s replacing and not just be a partial modification to the original name.

My rule of thumb is if a user has more than one post a day on average, I block them. At least on my other account I did that.

I don’t think regular people post that frequently. If they do, it’s likely just manual irritating spam.

Lol, I was gonna say this account has made 3.4k posts in 7 months. It’s just an unlabeled bot to throw on the pile of blocked accounts.

That’s an extremely open ended question with countless answers…

• speedrun your favorite game
• become a youtuber and play games while streaming
• play a game with just your feet
• play a game blindfolded
• play a game randomizer
• learn to program
• program shit
• learn an instrument
• play music and post it online
• make shitposts
• learn to draw
• draw porn
• draw not porn
• write poems
• film solo comedy skits
• do multiple of these things at once

…do anything because you want to do it.

That’s all I could think of while on the toilet.

They both have pros and cons. Both deal with spam, AI slop, and other BS. It seems like a “pick your poison” kinda thing.

Ty for the feedback!

My main problems with their software is that it’s Chromium based browsers only and they don’t provide a local workaround when their service eventually stops, either because they go under, they no longer support the keyboard, or some other stupid reason. Then the board is stuck as-is forever for people who don’t know where to look.

I’ll look into the other options, though.

I am left handed. That would be irrelevant.

You press a key once, but it counts multiple times. So when you’re typing “itt lookksss liikkee thhiss.”

Ty for the feedback! I’ll need to look into those other switches.

I had a Logitech Orion which I though was optical, but that brand has been garbage forever, so who knows.

I think the main issue is that Lemmy is a fraction of the size of Reddit. Most people probably assume they need to post the same content in different communities to increase visibility. However, Lemmy is so tiny that posting in one community is more than enough for everyone who would be interested in the topic to see it.

I think it’d be easiest to just find the largest version of a community and post there, ignoring all of the other communities.

Exactly! That entity is really fuckin irritating.

As far as I’m concerned, it is just spam.

More advanced filtering. There’s too much spam content, both human and bot made, that fills my feed. It’d be nice to be able to filter it with some rule system or regex or something. I don’t want to see the same person posting the same thing across identical communities in different instances back-to-back in my feed.