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.
I haven’t seen this, so can’t speak on it. What’s the difference between someone reposting the same article/crossposting and content jacking?
Nothing. OP is just doing an Internet: serious business.
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
thanks, that explains why some of my posts are also copied to other instances 🤔
Hello,
I dm’d you a few days ago about [email protected] and asking whether there any reason to not use [email protected]
The second one is quite more active: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=privacy&order=active_month
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.
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.”
Jet apologized in the comment below, so not sure why you say this shouldn’t be in good faith.
https://hackertalks.com/comment/9379197
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.
The previous threads didn’t mention this point
Not sure why you’re being so aggressive.
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.
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.
I vaguely remember it, but it’s been a while, and my 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.
If the cross post feature is used, does it merge comments as well?
It does on Piefed
https://piefed.zip/post/100161
All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view
A few options
That’s cool, but if it’s only piefed I can see the same conversations being repeated. Maybe it’ll come to Lemmy. Or is Lemmy old hat now and we should all move to piefed?
Please no! 🙏🏾
That person is the admin of lazysoci.al
What would be the issue of them starting piefed.lazysoci.al as another option?
I know, hence me asking not to switch his attention to PieFed.
Resources.
The Lemmy devs recently stated that this is a client problem, and that they don’t plan to change that
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46984024/19528869
IMO it’s a shame, because having the consolidated view is just much better to initiate conversations, but at least Piefed offers that options.
A few instances popped recently, so there’s definitely some traction towards that. Also the 1.0 version was just announced on [email protected] .
Of course they don’t, because Dessalines is too busy agenda modding to add new features.
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.
Theft happening to others, maybe. Try stealing from them ;)
That being said, I agree this is the moderator’s job to deal with it but keep in mind that:
When it’s the mod doing it?
💯
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