Comment on Community mention spam from Microblogs
Pamasich@kbin.earth 1 day agoIf you don't want to see mention soup, just limit the number of mentions per post on your instance.
Doesn't Mastodon require mentions though to function correctly? Imo instances should just not display leading or trailing mentions / hashtags. That should get rid of the problem without imposing limitations on Mastodon users.
Definitely agree with you on your first two points.
julian@activitypub.space 1 day ago
@silverpill@mitra.social isn't wrong though, in many cases the posts do mean to be posted in that community.
But it's an expressive thing. I'm able to mention a community like @startrek@startrek.website and it won't be posted there, because I'm only mentioning that community.
And yes, Mastodon needs mention spam to function because otherwise people you reply to won't know they received a reply. It's ... an approach.