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.
In some cases, I cross post from the infamous Yogthos who has been widely site banned and won’t show as a crosspost to anyone on an instance that has banned them
In other cases, I crosspost from users who are on instances that either aren’t widely federated with (Beehaw) or intentionally widely defederated from (Grad, hex). It won’t show up as a crosspost in those cases either