Content jacking and top posting other people’s content is really bad for Lemmy. It’s also just being a dick to other people making content on the platform.

  • feed is spammy
  • divides conversation
  • chills engagement
  • makes Lemmy less friendly to posters

This pattern is very common on lemmy, and needs to stop.

This is often used to attack or force migrate conversations from a instance someone doesn’t like to another instance they do like. It’s offensive by its very nature.

If you want to make a better community, great, do it but not at the expense of other Lemmy posters.

  • jetOPAEnglish
    173·
    4 days ago

    Let’s say you make a niche post about a programming feature

    2-6 hours later someone copies your post exactly but doesn’t cross post. Now people browsing by New see the copy first and if they do see the original it feels redundant/ spammy.

    If people do talk about this niche thing it’s likely they won’t be talking in the same place.

    You as the poster won’t see the engagement with your content, you won’t see comments, and you may be less incentivized to post again

    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Thanks for explaining. If someone is stealing posts, then it’s up to the moderators and/or admins to deal with that.

      But as I said, there’s a lot of people on Lemmy that think theft is okay. Hence sanctioning bots to steal content from elsewhere on the net.

      • jetOPAEnglish
        81·
        3 days ago

        At least with the bot, it’s clear that this is one way communication, and usually the bots tell you where it’s coming from.

        But just a person copying everything, so you think they’re the original creator, but they’re not. Which means if you respond to that post, they’re not going to respond, they don’t care. They’re just stealing. They’re trying to move everybody to their new community

      • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        But as I said, there’s a lot of people on Lemmy that think theft is okay.

        Theft happening to others, maybe. Try stealing from them ;)

        then it’s up to the moderators and/or admins to deal with that.

        That being said, I agree this is the moderator’s job to deal with it but keep in mind that:

        • Mods are benevolent and there aren’t that many to begin with.
        • One may still need to report the issue for the mod to become aware of it.
    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzEnglish
      41·
      3 days ago

      thanks, that explains why some of my posts are also copied to other instances 🤔