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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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If the admins of a instance have a policy of no Lemmy on Lemmy mugging that's enough. I can provide a list of frequent jackers from their instance.

The single most prolific jacker is on lemmy.world

They reupload the same photo or url over and over, so it's trivial to identify.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 weeks ago

I scrolled ALL and think I saw one of the offenders.