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.

  • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      I guess, in some scenarios, but that is not what i was talking about here really. Also “even if asked to please stop it”.