Community mention spam from Microblogs
julian @julian@activitypub.space
<p>So, <a href="https://startrek website/post/31953450 rel=">this meme</a>.</p> <p>tl;dr Mastodon users occasionally spam mentions and Lemmy (and probably Piefed) ingests them all and makes the post across all of the mentioned communities.</p> <p>Sucks, right, because on the theadiverse, <em>you're not actually able to do that so easily</em>.</p> <p>Basically, it's because Mastodon mixes mentions with addressing. Every mentioned person gets addressed, even though sometimes you don't mean for it to go into that community.</p>
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