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.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 days ago

    that user is an ardent supporter/defender of the Triad lol

    Oh, makes sense - I did not look into it.

    I frequently tell people looking for “leftist” instances to go to dbzero or slrpnk, those are genuinely awesome, as well as legit. But lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, and midwest.social, I dislike the disingenuous nature. Once someone starts off a conversation with a lie, you cannot trust anything else that follows. So they must think that we are absolute idiots that will literally never catch on, ever? Which tbf… they are probably right, in the sense of the common herd anyway, who does not pay attention to much outside of their narrow scope of interest.

    What next bothers me then is that when people DO catch on, they then want to leave the Threadiverse, or else not join in the first place, so it’s actively harmful. Although… what are you going to do about it? Indeed. For myself I placed my hopes in PieFed, and this last month has seen the first-fruits of that as so many communities chose to migrate here rather than still yet another Lemmy server. PieFed literally is not even fully finished being developed - e.g. there is no post preview option (there strangely is one for comments like this one that I am typing out here, but not first-level responses to a post, and not actual posts - although in the past I have seen those buttons, yet right now they are gone in those cases) - but people STILL chose it, over Lemmy.

    And I am sure that you are well aware of the post from like a year ago on Lemmy.World that more than subtly hinted that they were ready to jump ship to Sublinks, when it became developed enough. Sadly it never did (the developer had a baby, and still excellently runs Discuss.Online but has no extra time to get it finished, so I sympathize:-D), but the desire for such remains very real.

    And you are doing your part to help, so kudos for that!:-)