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.

  • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Content shouldn’t be crossposted between communities

    At least not systematically, and not within a day of the original posting (so if something becomes topical)

    First community to post a content have “authorship” of that content

    It’s not a dibs system, so organic collisions where two people really want to talk about something is fine. just systematic reposting of EVERYTHING from people without their consent isn’t good for lemmy.

    Communities that repost content from other communities should be closed. Admins should close communities that do so.

    Not closed, the reposters should be be given opportunities to transition to their own content.

    People will have to subscribe to all the similar communities on one topic to follow all posts related to that topic

    That is a direct aspect of the lemmy model, until such a time as themed communities becomes protocol level. The only way to not have to do this is kill any similar community before it grows.