Comment on lemmit.online
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Maybe it’s different now, but two years ago it was just an echo chamber. No one responded to the posts because they weren’t responding to an actual person. You can’t tell people who the asshole is or answer their weird sex questions.
I never saw any point and blocked that account and whole server. It’s just noise and a waste of bandwidth.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Valid, but shouldn’t that be the choice of the user? I don’t see it because I don’t browse all, and if you browse all you have to apply some filters because you will get all.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It’s fine to be up to the user. But it’s also fine to say it’s just a spam account and block it to save bandwidth. Easy for me to say, of course, since I’m already not seeing the content.
The cool thing about the fediverse is that no one really controls the whole thing, so I give a lot of deference to folks who want to run things their own way. Anyone with a strong option that it needs to be done differently can stand up their own instance pretty easily.
Or to summarize, you have a point but that doesn’t oblige the server to be run that way.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
True, but I’m not sure that it’s a significant load on the server. In terms of disk space the biggest impact is probably image hosting; does that content get mirrored? Text posts are negligible. Or quantity of database items might affect queries.