It's the same thing with sunshine, pugjesus, and dude. I can't fucking stand it. I don't want to see the same 4 people posting because they're on a manic upswing/addicted to the platform. I try to block their accounts but it seems like they have already spun up 4 more to submit from a different spot. It's awful and devalues lemmy (for me). I would be better off never seeing their posts again.
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
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I don't have a problem with people posting a lot, but people making over a dozen accounts as frequently as every 2 days pisses me off.
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As far as I can tell, they are providing a valuable, wanted, service. It's unfortunate that it's impacting you negatively somehow, but I think people would prefer that they keep it up.
Is what they are doing bothering you, or did you just misunderstand the point of their behaviour, and assumed something malicious was going on?
The "service" has negative value. All it accomplishes is spam, doubling or quadrupling posts, and making every single user of a large instance out to be a tankie. There is also no shot it isn't just a script or bot being run unless they themselves spend an insane amount of time on ml making the while "boycott" thing horseshit to begin with.
And at this point, random instances are being starved of resources by the account spam (the federation takes disk space and bandwidth).
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Banning a username doesn't solve the problem tho - you can create new accounts anyway. And banning accounts with similar names as well creates all kinds of problems.
Maybe some kind of probation could help? For example, a user could be invisible for everyone but their home instance for some time. If they are then reported and banned, they never appear on another instance to begin with. Could do this for both comments and content.
Lmao that would make even less ppl join this site and make it even less useful, if you think lemmy will ever be as useful as reddit, it cant have ppl on instances post invisible to other instances when they join that will just make them head to the larger instances or be even more confused on where to sign up
You do realize that (some) subs on Reddit block new users as well?
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yeah I have a history with this guy who I thought was a bot but he responded back. apparently he just acts like a bot. Like his purpose in life is to post and he posts with wierd agendas rather than just because he is sharing things he likes. Sometimes people ask how many people you block and I always have to say how many of the blocks are like the same persons alts. as someone said he would just move to cm003 so for now im glad he is staying in a pattern so that I can just block right away.
Yup, also have 30 blocks for this username
@jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone @rant@lemmy.sdf.org
While I do remember seeing that user handle several times across the "New Comments" feed, I went through all my previous notifications and I couldn't find any interaction from/to they. So, I particularly had no problems with this person, just like I also never had problems with Hexbear users, despite seeing a whole Lemmy complaining about them.
The way I see it, it can be made part of other features. Have names be auto-reserved locally between instances for future user migrations if they desire. Having the same username for different instances for different people is deceptive as fuck and will be abused as well if it hasn't been yet.
That a user acting in bad faith retains the same name throughout different instances is merely coincidental - I doubt they won't mind switching it up, specially if they are automating account creation and astrosurfing.
Ive blocked them a ton of times myself. Summit (android client) lets me filter for username string.