Yeah. Leaving other people's posts in first person definitely makes it feel much dirtier.

I think people that say lemmy is full of content and by posting content im "suffocating an active community" are kind of losing their story if username of an active user is that recognizable. I think lemmy is starved for content and it shows, thare are just no or very little contributors.

It is truly confusing why would lemmy attempt to stop an active contributor given total lack of content.

I would qualify that as bot activities

You can be banned from a instance

Sure but this post also has 9 separate comment threads in 4 hours in addition to 70+ upvotes from what I can see. I’m not saying that every post is going to look the same but typically a highly upvoted post will have several comments. Given the typical ratio of comments to votes it seems like a weird pattern to me.

I've blocked maybe a dozen accounts that probably aren't even active anymore.

Is everybody else just raw dogging ALL instead of making a subscription list?

I feel like that would need to be .* but im kinda wondering if you need to do something for the at but I can't for the life of me think if at is used for anything. you could do the keyword block thing but im worried about using that to much. I have not seen an alt of his in awhile so im guessing I have them all blocked at this point but man has to be more than a dozen. When I go through my block list I have to scroll for a bit to get passed his.

cm0002 was awhile back from my perspective but I have blocked many many of his alts. It was a guy with a thing in his craw for "tankies" and he felt the best way to express it was to make posts in .world that were copies of ones from .ml in order to suppress .ml I guess. I would not have realized but I was posting devils panties to a .ml comics thing and he was doing it and it kinda was annoying me as in my own feed I would see his over mine because I read by most recent. Basically within an hour he would repost. I thought he was a bot but talked with him. Here is the think I was like. Well if you will post devils panties every day I can just stop and just see it in your posts. he was like no. so basically he would only do it for his repost mission but would not make a point of doing it himself to add content to the fediverse. it was kinda funny because I started posting in various other ways and got it to the point where I would post just text saying hey todays devils panties was real fun because or whatnot. He would post with the url and everything even though that was not in my post. so he would do all the work if I posted. If I did not post anything though then he would not post. At that point it was. Wow. This guy just has mental problems.

Other than the most recent one where he's responding to someone in all caps, I don't see it. The all caps response comes off as someone tired of all the complaining, not necessarily unhinged.

Yea, but it still makes genuine posters have less comments though (and so discussion)

Hey! Look at that, we almost recreated the original post in its entirety inside of the comments!!!

Sorry, I'm overly pedantic and snarky and actually annoying. Just noticed it wanted to point that out. All in good fun. I see myself out now. :)