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 haven’t seen this, so can’t speak on it. What’s the difference between someone reposting the same article/crossposting and content jacking?
Let’s say you make a niche post about a programming feature
2-6 hours later someone copies your post exactly but doesn’t cross post. Now people browsing by New see the copy first and if they do see the original it feels redundant/ spammy.
If people do talk about this niche thing it’s likely they won’t be talking in the same place.
You as the poster won’t see the engagement with your content, you won’t see comments, and you may be less incentivized to post again
thanks, that explains why some of my posts are also copied to other instances 🤔
Hello,
I dm’d you a few days ago about [email protected] and asking whether there any reason to not use [email protected]
The second one is quite more active: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=privacy&order=active_month
There is a extremely good reason not to use a privacy community that forbids talking about cryptography.
We have had this discussion many times. Pretending it doesn’t matter is just being obtuse at this point.
Yes, I can’t feel this poster is arguing in good faith. At this point it’s so redundant, it reads like “any excuse will do.”
If the cross post feature is used, does it merge comments as well?
It does on Piefed
https://piefed.zip/post/100161
All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view
A few options
That’s cool, but if it’s only piefed I can see the same conversations being repeated. Maybe it’ll come to Lemmy. Or is Lemmy old hat now and we should all move to piefed?
The Lemmy devs recently stated that this is a client problem, and that they don’t plan to change that
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46984024/19528869
IMO it’s a shame, because having the consolidated view is just much better to initiate conversations, but at least Piefed offers that options.
A few instances popped recently, so there’s definitely some traction towards that. Also the 1.0 version was just announced on [email protected] .
Of course they don’t, because Dessalines is too busy agenda modding to add new features.
Thanks for explaining. If someone is stealing posts, then it’s up to the moderators and/or admins to deal with that.
But as I said, there’s a lot of people on Lemmy that think theft is okay. Hence sanctioning bots to steal content from elsewhere on the net.
Theft happening to others, maybe. Try stealing from them ;)
That being said, I agree this is the moderator’s job to deal with it but keep in mind that:
When it’s the mod doing it?