Uggghhh, another community I have to block.
Uggghhh, another community I have to block.
Getting a bot to spam out 12 posts in a minute is not the way to make me want to engage.
Is there really any scenario where a normal user should NOT be rate limited on posts or comments to some degree? Say, no more than 3 posts per minute? No more than 10 replies?
But when anyone can run an instance, you can’t control it. Someone has an instance which allows them to make as many posts as they want, and then all that content is federated to connect servers
Really though? You can implement the same limits for federated posts, and just drop the ones exceeding the rate limit. Who knows, might be frustrating for normal users that genuinely exceed the rate limits, because their stuff won't be seen by everyone without any notice, but if they are sane it should be minimal.
The notice might still be able to be implemented though. idk how federation works exactly, but when a federated post is sent/retrieved, you can also exchange that it has been rejected. The local server of the user can then inform the user that their content has been rejected by other servers.
There are solutions for a lot of things, it just takes the time to think about & implement them, which is incredibly limited.
Perhaps a case to be made for a federated minimum-config. If servers don't adhere to a minimum viable contract, say meeting requirements for rate-limiting, or not requiring 2fa, or other config-level things... They become defederated.
A way of enforcing adherence to an agreed upon minimum standard of behaviour, of sorts
I can think of a couple. For events like the NFL or some expo where you want a bunch of different topic discussion threads all at the same time. But even then, it would very limited.
flip those and double them
Those numbers seem high for a normal human being. 1 a minute is even high for quality content.
This is where I believe that other site did a decent job with their front page: they created filters that divided it into most popular, what's trending, and what's new. I like seeing posts from the variety of different communities, but I do not necessarily want to see every single post. Especially the ones from the same community, in succession. Having a way to only see the ones that are considered "popular" would be nice.
I use the Voyager app to browse Lemmy and it has those filters.
The word algorithm has a bad reputation here, and there is a lot of abuse in over tuning it, but Reddit does do a better job showing me things I want while showing me bits from other communities. Even though there are 8 sorting algorithms here none of them quite satisfy my want. Scaled is a little closer but gives too many posts from the same community.
The problem here isn't that Lemmy doesn't have good enough ways to sort content; the problem is that it's still small and doesn't yet have enough content to sort.
I generally sort by everything:12 hour and feel that I get a pretty good and relatively 'clean' cross section of the content.
I live in my happy bubble with my subbed communities.