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.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    There’s multiple things here.

    The KiwiFarms transplants and the Destiny fans are just looking for lolcows. If crossposting memes gets a reaction, they’ll focus on that until the content dries up.

    That’s the whole foundation of those communities: operating zealously in that pocket where they can act in eternal kategoria. The reaction is more validating than the action.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        For having communities that maximize harassment, usually within the limits of moderation efforts. The latter with malicious community rules policing and reporting, etc, especially.

        The idea is to pick targets no one really wants to defend.

        (…lolcows they’d be called, which was the style at the time… anyways I’m old.)