This is just a partial list of this POS’s ban and block evasion tactics. Every two to three days, this asshole forces an instance to federate out, wasting their resources, and doesn’t give a shit who has banned or tried to block them. Then a large number from every one of these account is very heavily upvoted. Oh, that isn’t suspicious at all, especially when over 90% of what this fuckwad posts is the laziest kind of repost (just blatantly ripped from .ml in a likely automated way similar to the the account creation likely is since they will make accounts on instances less than a day old).
I am fucking tired of this shitty, bad faith action and this is proof that it is high time that an instance needs the ability to straight up perma ban a username from any instance. I am aware that PieFed has this feature and right now it seems like something so incredibly basic. One person has the power to make all of Lemmy effectively useless, and it needs to stop being that way immediately.
Not inherently. Activity is certainly important, and some people might just leave if a place seems too slow compared to what they’re used to. But the quality of activity is also important. (If it didn’t, we’d be firing up repost bots and AI tools to generate junk.) In fact, one think many people have said they like about Lemmy instances is that it seems like replies actually mean something here and don’t just get lost in the mix. There’s more of a community.