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.
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
Correct, but people are also free to want their own version of the community to thrive. Which means posting content to it.
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”
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
If you look at that thread, people just don’t care about the instance that much
Inertia is the main reason the .ml communities are still the most active on their topics.
… isn’t the one of the main rationales for the top posting because ml is blocked on many instances?