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
    4·
    3 days ago

    There is a extremely good reason not to use a privacy community that forbids talking about cryptography.

    We have had this discussion many times. Pretending it doesn’t matter is just being obtuse at this point.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      3·
      3 days ago

      Yes, I can’t feel this poster is arguing in good faith. At this point it’s so redundant, it reads like “any excuse will do.”

    • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      To be completely honest, I forgot about the crypto rule.

      Lee Duna also posted several articles to that community in the past: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/search?q=+&type=Posts&listingType=All&communityId=1111729&creatorId=430615&page=1&sort=New

      So I’m not sure that is drove their decision.

      We have had this discussion many times.

      The previous threads didn’t mention this point

      Pretending it doesn’t matter is just being obtuse at this point.

      Not sure why you’re being so aggressive.

      • jetOPAEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        I’m being forthright because concentrating communities to instances has repercussions especially when the moderators of the new instance defederate aggressively or ban relevant topics.

        Apologies if we didn’t discuss it before, I thought you and I had discussed the privacy community at least 3 times. In fact I blocked it due to people cross posting content to it.

        • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          I’m being forthright because concentrating communities to instances has repercussions especially when the moderators of the new instance defederate aggressively or ban relevant topics.

          Of course, but there is also a limited amount of instances available. We tried !privacyguides@lemmy.one, but it’s shutting down soon.

          If the privacy community has a really strong opinion about cryptocurrencies (which I don’t think they do, as it’s the most active community that isn’t on .ml), we could organize a move to lemmy.ca. Although Lemmy.ca isn’t maybe the best choice as they might need a Canadian-specific privacy community, and having both next to each other would be confusing.

          Apologies if we didn’t discuss it before, I thought you and I had discussed the privacy community at least 3 times.

          I vaguely remember it, but it’s been a while, and my vague memories were that crytocurrencies could be discussed on other communities.