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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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel you. This is quite an interesting thread to read and the different opinions in the comments.

I also think this is a problem for Lemmy. We could be better than other social media sites. Have genuine human conversations. Post high quality content that matters to us. But we regularly don't. We dump the news, re-post memes... And I mean there are people who like it. But I don't. I'm here for the comments and I'd rather talk to people than have a lot of noisy content dumped at me, burying human interaction with fabricated activity that's following some ulterior motives, like make the place seem more busy, or do some internal politics... Which may be warranted. But those aren't genuine in my opinion. It's not some other user who likes to talk to me, but someone fabricating something, and it regularly makes me feel used. Plus I'm pretty sure I see it chill engagement.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I wish people only posted things they wanted to talk about. That would mean the entire feed are possible conversations to have.

I try to only post things I'd be happy to talk about.

Maybe it would be interesting to see a poster score based on how many of their posts they don't engage with once someone makes a comment.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, the good news is that at least some of those that sort by new/all know that the newest version of a repost is the newest, and that the last one is the earliest.

The issue you're raising is one I've had conversations about in meat space.

The problem with that is that not everyone who knows about it pays attention to it, or bothers to report things since it would require scrolling back

Personally I rarely report because I have no way of knowing if a link came independently or via repost. It's easy to spot when it's something like a meme or similarly identifiable, but even then it may not be intentionally douchey, just thoughtless. So reporting isn't necessarily a primary option.

I don't think there's an easy solution to the problem tbh.

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