We’ve had some trouble recently with posts from aggregator links like Google Amp, MSN, and Yahoo.

We’re now requiring links go to the OG source, and not a conduit.

In an example like this, it can give the wrong attribution to the MBFC bot, and can give a more or less reliable rating than the original source, but it also makes it harder to run down duplicates.

So anything not linked to the original source, but is stuck on Google Amp, MSN, Yahoo, etc. will be removed.

  • Socialist Mormon Satanist
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    7 hours ago

    Lemmy is a small, but growing community that needs more content to compete with Reddit. Prolific posters are actually something to celebrate for helping the community grow. In my personal opinion.

    I actually wish there were more prolific posters and more posters in general.

    And of course, we can always block posters if we don’t want to view their content. :)

    • geekwithsoul
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      22 hours ago

      Wow, speak of the devil! Lemmy growing for the sake of growing just recreates Reddit. Every forum is dominated by a super minority of posters, a small minority of commenters, and a super majority of lurkers. Nothing has changed about that since the Usenet days you claim to be old enough to remember.

      Posts without thought or of low quality encourage people to go elsewhere. The answer is not more crap posted by more people, it’s quality posts from diverse users with healthy and good faith discussions. So basically the opposite of what you do with the volume and choice of articles you share, and your rampant attempts to stifle and distract from constructive discussions in the comments.

      Poorly sourced and written articles presenting issues without context are not only actively harmful to this community but harmful to the prospect of Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole. The fact that this is something you don’t recognize surprises me not at all.

    • AmbiguousProps
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      44 hours ago

      It doesn’t need your posts, as evident by the massive amounts of downvotes your propaganda receives. No one is celebrating you.