I’m seeing a lot of users on my preferred instance with <1yr old accounts, that have thousands of posts and comments. Whether these accounts are people with nothing better to do than post mindlessly 24/7, or are bots pushing some narrative, it doesn’t make a difference, I’d rather not see what they’re posting, because chances are, it’s hogwash. It would be nice to be able to filter out these highly active accounts, based on a set variable of max posts per day, and/or comments per day. Any account that exceeds that variable is filtered out, and any account below it is allowed.
Does anyone have insight on whether or not this sort of filtering is possible to achieve on Lemmy? Is anyone else interested in having this sort of functionality?
Edit: I’m not trying to throw shade on active users. I appreciate active users. I’m looking to block users with AI image generated profile photos and have on average 10+ posts per day and 20+ comments per day. Those accounts seem suspicious to me.
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There aren’t that many of us (1 year account on @[email protected] ).
Keep in mind that we could just be trying to keep the platform active, not pushing any agenda. 1000 posts in a year is 3 posts per day, so does not require 24/7 posting
Was gonna say, I’m sat on 2.2k comments apparently in about 15 months, which is surprising to me given I probably only comment on about half the days in any given week.
I will say compared to Reddit though, I tend to be more likely to comment here because there’re fewer people here and I want it to feel active enough for more people to continue joining (either lemmy in general, or just on smaller communities that don’t have a lot of activity yet).
I will say compared to Reddit though, I tend to be more likely to comment here because there’re fewer people here …
And the ratio of bots to humans on reddit is crazy high. There’s a lot less garbage to wade through here.
There’s less advertising but more propaganda
That’s just keeping me in good practice, though.
Fair point. I see that as a potential silver lining in this whole Kremlin disinformation era. At least some people will see it for what it is and learn.
I’m 99.9999999999% sure that far fewer of those accounts are propaganda than you realize but you just don’t want to hear what they’re pushing because it threatens your world view.
A month old thread and your post gets 9 upvotes in a day. Fuck off.
And it is the responsibility of those of us who do see the propaganda to call it out for what it is, so that passers-by who may not see it so clearly can learn from our experience.
Absolutely.
The dictator alliance (Kremlin, CCP, Pyongyang, Tehran) are using our open societies and free speech against us. We need to use it against them too.
Then you check what quality content OP is posting and… 5 comments and this post. So they’re doing their part.
Lurkers who post this stuff bug me. Wanting a stream of content but are so nitpicky about it, when all they have to do is start posting stuff themselves to kick up conversations
Any examples of users?
You can fork lemmy and create the feature yourself if you want. I believe it uses postgres on the official docs so in theory should be “easy” (famous last words). Im not aware of any plugin or filtering like that.
I don’t want to call anyone out individually. But I have come across accounts with 7-8k comments in the span of a few months. I don’t really think it’s worth reporting them, and don’t have the time or energy to research and block them individually, I’d just rather have them automatically muted on my end via a tool or plugin.
I assumed this would be something I’d have to program myself, just wasn’t sure if it was clearly not possible or practical for one reason or another.
If you’re going to remove 90% of the content on lemmy, is there even a point staying on it?
I’m Spartacus.
I mean if you want to block all the users that actually participate here on Lemmy then I guess you can, not sure what the point of that would be though.
We’re just trying to build an active community here, nothing else, really.
Also you made me realise i have 5.5k comment, seems like i’m a bit chronically online :/
Alright there champ, that’s enough beans for you, time for a nap
