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.com
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    2 days ago

    The point is doing this way removes any of the joint discussion a cross post would bring.

    There is no other way to do so as Lemmy identifies crossposts based on URL links. When there is no link, it’s not possible to identify a crosspost.

    Then there’s all the other content they scrape without any tie to where they found it like news and memes.

    The crossposts are visible for memes and news:

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47235271/19582739

    • kux@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      There is no other way to do so

      the obvious other way about it is to just stop