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.

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

    Mbin has at similar approach where it is possible to see the number of comments on other communities:

    https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2321464/New-Linux-Flaws-Enable-Full-Root-Access-via-PAM-and#comments

    This issue is due to Lemmy.

    The Lemmy devs recently stated that this is a client problem, and that they don’t plan to change that

    In lemmy-ui we’ve chosen to link the posts at the top rather than combine comment threads.

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46984024/19528869

    And if everyone was using piefed that merges cross posts, this war against instances makes even less sense.

    Instances still have different moderation policies. A comment could get on banned on one instance and allowed on another. Being able to see them all doesn’t change that.