Flipping.rocks Admin1d ago

A few more #PicSpam accounts I recommend limiting/blocking:

@[email protected]: while there does seem to be a human at the wheel, primarily posts ~*~viral/cool~*~/engagement-farming content indiscriminately scraped from other networks, including other content scrapers. This leads to them posting fake AI-generated videos, incorrect/misleading descriptions, etc., which only gets addressed when *other* people point it out.

@dbattistella: more of an edge case; she does post plenty of links to actual news articles and her own genuine commentary, but also posts quite a lot of populist and engagement-farming stuff copied verbatim from other networks with cursory credit (e. g. handles with no indication of what platform they're on and no links to the original posts), if any. As a result, posts regularly include misinformation, a surprising amount of conspiracy theorist-adjacent libertarians, uncredited text and media that readers may take to be her own work, etc.

Basically, these are accounts where you should double-check literally every single thing they post. Personally I think this is more work than people should have to put in, and therefore such accounts are worth blocking/limiting server-wide.

Also, a must-block: @[email protected], one of the most prolific scrapers/picspammers, if you haven't already.

#FediBlock

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I think that *meaningfully* crediting authors, artists, photographers, and other creators is just the ethical thing to do, regardless of whether intellectual property laws apply or however you feel about them. When people consistently do not do that, or consistently fail to look into the origins of what they are posting, that is a big red flag for me.

Obviously not all mods/admins feel this way, but that is the stance I take.

#FediBlock #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

May 20 at 10:56pmWeb