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 cross-post to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly the instance as a whole to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate, is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms
Megathread on the issue
Some highlights from the link:
CW: Original transphobic Comment from Nutomic
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
Whatever harm you think this does to the Lemmy-verse pales in comparison to the harm .ml and the behavior of its admins does because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy always leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”
That sounds reasonable to me. Forcing a migration away from a toxic instance is a legitimate reason. Letting the users decide which one to engage with sounds like healthy Democratic federation.
You haven’t hidden your reasoning nor are profiting. Your cause seems legit to one random user anyways.
They are reposting, within minutes, the original content other users provide, with the intention to reduce the interaction they might be getting, even if asked to please stop it. How is that ok, honestly i don’t get how you guys can think that way?
I have never spent time in a social media setting where people like this were tolerated.
Serious question, could this be of benefit to the content creators assuming original attribution and links are preserved? Sounds like it spreads their work to instances that have defederated the original. I don’t think the reposter user sees much benefit. I know Pizza Cake comics, might buy from her website or donate, but couldn’t care less who posts them.
I guess, in some scenarios, but that is not what i was talking about here really. Also “even if asked to please stop it”.
Yea that’s not nice. If it’s a pet project for them they need a blacklist. If it’s manual and they’re willingly ignoring the request that’s definitely bad.
For additional context: https://feddit.org/post/11584891
Edit:
Are you ok? What does the PSA i posted to do with any of this?
Maybe a better context would be this:
https://sopuli.xyz/post/27585313?scrollToComments=true
To try to find a compromise, would you consider not posting OC pictures posted on [email protected] ?
Seems like this would be acceptable for OP: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47235271/19584202
Jet has not posted to crows, Jet is not even a party to this cross-posting from the perspective of a poster, they have not been posting to a .ml comm so I have not crossposted any of their posts
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Just because I wasn’t the target of a bully doesn’t mean I can’t identify a bully being a bully