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.

  • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
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    6 days ago

    If you want to block ml then you made a choice to also give up it’s content.

    The ml posters are aware of other instances.

    Everyone is free to use a instance that federates how they like. If people choose an exclusionary instance then they can’t complain they are missing posts from something excluded.

    I absofuckinglutely mind seeing redundant content in my feed. It makes Lemmy feel empty

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

      The ml posters are aware of other instances.

      Yes, but most of them just want to stay on the most active community and don’t want to go through the hassle of recreating the community elsewhere. Discussion on [email protected]: https://lemmy.ml/post/25858077

      Everyone is free to use a instance that federates how they like. If people choose an exclusionary instance then they can’t complain they are missing posts from something excluded.

      Correct, but people are also free to want their own version of the community to thrive. Which means posting content to it.

      I absofuckinglutely mind seeing redundant content in my feed. It makes Lemmy feel empty

      Aren’t most of the crossposts only displayed once?

      For the remaining ones (usually self posts, as there is no link to identify crossposts), just block the communities that you know are only “other communities reposts”

      • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Is your desire to concentrate people’s interaction to favored instances greater then the agency of the contents original poster?

        I don’t think it’s good for Lemmy as I outlined above. Give people informed choice, but respect their agency

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

          If you look at that thread, people just don’t care about the instance that much

          I’ll go wherever the action is, I just want an active community. If people wanna move I’ll be there.

          I’ve just joined the community, but I’d be happy to move across wherever.

          As long as you do not go to an instance that blacklists lemmy.ml, I’m fine.

          Inertia is the main reason the .ml communities are still the most active on their topics.

          • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
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            6 days ago

            As long as you do not go to an instance that blacklists lemmy.ml, I’m fine.

            … isn’t the one of the main rationales for the top posting because ml is blocked on many instances?

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

              No, the rationale is to allow people to block (more like mute, Lemmy-blocking doesn’t really block) lemmy.ml

              If !fantasy were to switch to [email protected]

              • lemmy.ml users would still be able to access it
              • users lemmy-blocking lemmy.ml would still be able to access it, and see comments from .ml users

              That’s an improvement over it being at .ml, where the second point isn’t possible