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.
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