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
    204·
    5 months 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

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzEnglish
      71·
      5 months ago

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

        • jetOPAEnglish
          61·
          5 months 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
            51·
            5 months 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
            31·
            5 months 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
              6·
              5 months 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
                21·
                5 months 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 [email protected], 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.

                • jetOPAEnglish
                  5·
                  5 months ago

                  vague memories were that crytocurrencies could be discussed on other communities.

                  yes… like [email protected] so when i see campaigning to remove the few spaces where i can discuss things I care about… it gets my hackles up.

    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
      5·
      5 months 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
        91·
        5 months 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
        5·
        5 months 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.