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 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thanks for explaining. If someone is stealing posts, then it's up to the moderators and/or admins to deal with that.

But as I said, there's a lot of people on Lemmy that think theft is okay. Hence sanctioning bots to steal content from elsewhere on the net.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 1 week ago

At least with the bot, it's clear that this is one way communication, and usually the bots tell you where it's coming from.

But just a person copying everything, so you think they're the original creator, but they're not. Which means if you respond to that post, they're not going to respond, they don't care. They're just stealing. They're trying to move everybody to their new community

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But as I said, there’s a lot of people on Lemmy that think theft is okay.

Theft happening to others, maybe. Try stealing from them ;)

then it’s up to the moderators and/or admins to deal with that.

That being said, I agree this is the moderator's job to deal with it but keep in mind that:

Mods are benevolent and there aren't that many to begin with.
One may still need to report the issue for the mod to become aware of it.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 week ago

One may still need to report the issue for the mod to become aware of it.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

When it's the mod doing it?