It reminds me how Imgur is often discussing images that were uploaded for Reddit and OP will never know about all the comments.
It reminds me how Imgur is often discussing images that were uploaded for Reddit and OP will never know about all the comments.
Yeah, I have that fear so have been throttling back my posting. I wouldn’t worry as the examples I am thinking of are pretty obvious like [email protected]. That instance has a community where you can request communities and a bot starts them. At least in this case, there is a bot that just imports the posts from the relevant sub.
It’s so crazy to me, like, why outsource our content to reddit?
Yeah, I’m really not a fan of that instance and it prompted me to go so far as to see if Lemmy has a way to block an entire instance at a user level. And sadly the answer to that is no. Though there is an open feature request but the odds don’t seem great of it being picked up because I don’t think the original creator or commenters on the request made a very compelling case. Now though with a lot of what appears to be single purpose instances like that lemmit one, or the big NSFW one popping up and having a ton of related communities getting created all the time it’s getting to be a big chore to constantly block them individually. Especially, I’ve found if you try browsing by all/new, it’s absolutely flooded with those instances.