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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.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I cross-post to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly the instance as a whole to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate, is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

CW: Original transphobic Comment from Nutomic

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

Whatever harm you think this does to the Lemmy-verse pales in comparison to the harm .ml and the behavior of its admins does because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy always leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left"

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To try to find a compromise, would you consider not posting OC pictures posted on !crows@lemmy.ml ?

Seems like this would be acceptable for OP: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47235271/19584202

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That sounds reasonable to me. Forcing a migration away from a toxic instance is a legitimate reason. Letting the users decide which one to engage with sounds like healthy Democratic federation.

You haven't hidden your reasoning nor are profiting. Your cause seems legit to one random user anyways.

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are reposting, within minutes, the original content other users provide, with the intention to reduce the interaction they might be getting, even if asked to please stop it. How is that ok, honestly i don't get how you guys can think that way?

I have never spent time in a social media setting where people like this were tolerated.

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Serious question, could this be of benefit to the content creators assuming original attribution and links are preserved? Sounds like it spreads their work to instances that have defederated the original. I don't think the reposter user sees much benefit. I know Pizza Cake comics, might buy from her website or donate, but couldn't care less who posts them.

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess, in some scenarios, but that is not what i was talking about here really. Also "even if asked to please stop it".

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Yea that's not nice. If it's a pet project for them they need a blacklist. If it's manual and they're willingly ignoring the request that's definitely bad.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Are you ok? What does the PSA i posted to do with any of this?

Maybe a better context would be this:
https://sopuli.xyz/post/27585313?scrollToComments=true