See https://mander.xyz/post/6913732. It seems to mirror all reddit users and posts, and we cannot reply or interact so that they see it, so I wouldn’t like it spamming our all feed.
Inoffensive hobby project. They’re not harming us, plus those experiments are kind of fun to watch.
Thanks, interesting discussion.
I can see how it could be annoying if it grows to the point that mirrored posts and “user” bots dominate the feed. But I can also see the main usecase being potentially of value to some users here that may want to follow some specific reddit content.
Since this is not an issue that requires immediate action I think it is better to wait and see. Instance blocking at the user level will become available soon, so for something benign like this I’d rather leave the decission to the users.
I do agree that this is something to pay attention to, as something like this at scale could indeed become a problem. But I am O.K. with waiting until it does become a problem… What I have already seen many times is that theoretical future problems end up never materializing.
Why do so many people use “all”? it doesn’t seem logical.
Just subscribe to the communities you’re interested in like you did on reddit.
Lemmy isn’t that big and missing new communities is easy, so it’s convenient to block all instances and communities you don’t want to see instead of following a few
I was never on reddit ;)
But if I always sort by subscribed, how am I supposed to find new communities and grow niche communities?
I usually just go to https://lemmyverse.net/ and either search for a specific topic, or sort communities by new.
Well everyone has their way, I guess. I like my all feed sorted by new, because then I can see a lot of diverse content, so I have a reason to want to prevent it from getting spammed by bots.
