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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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We literally have reposting bots for hackernews, reddit, Twitter, etc. It's nearly infinite content out there.

Theft is theft. It's all shit and should be frowned upon.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Broadly I agree, I don't want to come to Lemmy to just have an RSS reader. I want to have conversations.

I think every post should be by a human, to have a conversation about something.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

I want to have conversations.

Piefed allows for better conversations thanks to the consolidated comments view

https://piefed.zip/post/100161

All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view

A few options

https://piefed.social/ - flagship instance
https://piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
https://piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
https://feddit.online/

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. It's why I've blocked most repost bots. It's just a barren thread with content from elsewhere that might even not exist on the original platform anymore