this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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What is preventing people from spamming popular hashtags to flood communities?
Currently, if they want to do so, they have to manually crosspost to each community, tags seems an easier way to flood
The same thing preventing people from spamming community tags presently.
We have visible community tags at the moment? I thought they were only visible from Mastodon, and invisible from Lemmy?
Maybe I'm explaining poorly, but people on mastodon and PixelFed have been able to tag communities via @[email protected] for a while.
Ah yes, but the main difference is that they need to know the exact community name to be able to post, a tag is much more generic
Most times people tag Firefox and end up in [email protected]
That's an easy one, but I'm thinking about stuff like [email protected], a bit harder to type and find
Indeed, but if [email protected] subscribe to #greentext, it's easier to tag stuff.
That said, it's not a hill I wanna die on. It's just a random idea I was floating to try and add content to some of the more niche communities.
Yes, and then easier to flood too 😄
Something else that I just thought about: there would be no way to prevent multiple communities to fetch the same hashtag, so we would end up with even more duplicates than now, with toots replicated on all of the communities fetching that hashtag
What's wrong with duplicates? I love seeing stuff posted to multiple communities. I get to check out new communities and meet new people.
It leads to discussion fragmentation, especially when the 2 communities are the same, but still split, like [email protected] and [email protected]
Fragmentation is a myth. Look at the various different technology groups that are all thriving on different instances. Stop (inadvertantly) pushing for centralization!
Fragmentation exists and depends on how many users are interested to discuss a topic.
Of course tech communities are thriving, they are the common denominators for most of the users on Lemmy.
On the other hand, if we had [email protected] , and people also posting to [email protected], splitting the tiny community there is, wouldn't you want everyone to just go to one place to keep it alive, rather than have 50% of low activity on either side?
That's why I'm still posting to some LW communities even though I'm not a fan of having communities there.
There are only so many people interested to talk about active communities, so I create the weekly post to discuss about active communities on [email protected] , because it's more important to get visibility for communities than to avoid this community being on lemmy.world.
I could have it on [email protected] too, but that would mean asking everyone to comment twice, and realistically that's not going to happen.
Being able to move away from a community thanks to federation does not mean every community should be duplicated, that's counterproductive.
Different people do things differently. Why do you think towns have more than one pub or shop.
Towns also merge when population gets too low to stay sustainable separated