Specifically the ones that post like bots but are not marked as bots.
The accounts that post into all sorts of comms including many they aren’t a member of. The posts are usually pretty low quality and its clear the operator is not curating anything.
I find them annoying so I block. What do you think about it?
Fair, but I can tell you that a lot of .ml comms only appear to be very large because they’re one of the original instances so their comm subscriber counts are quite bloated with dead and deleted accounts (I don’t think subscriber counts decrease for any reason other than you actually clicking the unsubscribe button on a comm)
If you take a look by MAUs (a much better metric to go by) the non.ml Threadiverse is actually very healthy
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month
My decision isn’t based on metrics, just by how many .ml posts/comments I see that I know I wouldn’t if I’d blocked the instance. I know a lot of crap comes from them, and I don’t doubt they’re problematic, but for the most part, the shitty posts and comments from them are down voted to hell so I never see them, or are from users I’ve already blocked.