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this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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But none of what you described is spamming. If they’re posting one relevant piece of content to any given community, that’s just…how a link aggregator like Lemmy is supposed to be used.
Like you say, they’re creating more content for the platform to engage with. This is a good thing.
But I see his point about seeing some posts repeated too many times. I know technologically its tough but there are ways to filter out repeats.
It actually wouldn’t be tough at all to do a simple form of it. Lemmy already detects cross-posts and Lemmy web shows a link to other instances of the same link from the post page. It could have a setting to say "only show me the first of any given cross-post in my feed".
It's kinda annoying if you're browsing all, but if you aren't there's no way to get more visability really. I get why you'd do that even if I just rapidly scroll past and ignore them all. I totally agree
Posting identical content to multiple communities is the definition of spamming. It creates more content, but not more new content, which could be argued has negative value on a federated platform like Lemmy. The first post has value; everything after is noise.