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One thing I've noticed that I feel might become an issue eventually is that occasionally someone will have something they really want to be seen, so they sort of cross-post it to every related community in every instance they can all at the same time, so it shows up in your feed a dozen times from a dozen different places and it takes sometimes a day or more to get fully pushed out of the way.
I've only seen it happen a few times so far so it's not currently a major issue, but I can definitely see the potential for abuse there. As more people join you'll inevitably start to get more of the marketers and influencers and eventually corporations showing up, and they tend to bring all their bots and tools and various ways of gaming the system so it'd suck if the whole feed ends up being just the same 3-4 things posted into dozens of places for the whole day.
I'm sure there are ways to filter those sorts of things out, but I think the challenge is going to be to find a way to keep it under control without putting too much on the user, so they don't have to be constantly tweaking their settings and blocklists, and so that new users who just browse without having an account yet don't just see an unappealing wall of nonsense.
Hopefully that doesn't end up being the case, but that seems to be the way it trends when you add more people in my experience.
Yeah this has to be my number one criticism at the moment. It's a bit of a catch 22: you want a steady stream of quality content, so you subscribe to multiple communities of the same name so nothing falls through the cracks, and then posters post to multiple related or same-named communities so nobody misses it π€·ββοΈ
I agree that is a vulnerability that will be exploited soon. Not sure the best way to combat it. Perhaps a crossposting limit/cost/penalty would discourage it.
This bears deeper thought though because since thereβs no karma (let there never be), new accounts can bypass costs/limits from more permissive instances.
Good point and I hope to see more discussion around this. It actually seems kind of serious now I ponder on it.
It's already a thing. I scrolled New this morning and it was just a wall of the same story posted all over by some shit bot. This needs to be figured out asap.