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I'm pretty sure that they specifically repost things posted from .ml accounts. They aren't looking at the posts or hoping to farm "karma" or whatever, they're trying to de-populate the instance.
Can be pretty annoying when all the .ml posts line up with the cm00* posts.
Yea that's right
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
You could always just block .ml :)
I could, but for the very reasons you cite instances don't defederate from them, I don't. I block individuals that post bullshit I don't like, but my feed is already small as it is without purging a sizable amount of it.
Fair, but I can tell you that a lot of .ml comms only appear to be very large because they're one of the original instances so their comm subscriber counts are quite bloated with dead and deleted accounts (I don't think subscriber counts decrease for any reason other than you actually clicking the unsubscribe button on a comm)
If you take a look by MAUs (a much better metric to go by) the non.ml Threadiverse is actually very healthy
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month
My decision isn't based on metrics, just by how many .ml posts/comments I see that I know I wouldn't if I'd blocked the instance. I know a lot of crap comes from them, and I don't doubt they're problematic, but for the most part, the shitty posts and comments from them are down voted to hell so I never see them, or are from users I've already blocked.
Yes, the operator is very public about their goals. This doesn't make it any less annoying and by all measures it is not having the desired effect. I like that I can just block and make it all disappear.
How do you block all their accounts at once?
It's absolutely having the desired effects, when I started I was needing to sift through 100-200 posts every morning when I start
Now its down to 30-40 and select comms I monitor increase in MAUs
I’m not sure how come anyone would try to farm karma when Lemmy doesn’t have karma points of any kind.