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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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm being forthright because concentrating communities to instances has repercussions especially when the moderators of the new instance defederate aggressively or ban relevant topics.

Apologies if we didn't discuss it before, I thought you and I had discussed the privacy community at least 3 times. In fact I blocked it due to people cross posting content to it.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m being forthright because concentrating communities to instances has repercussions especially when the moderators of the new instance defederate aggressively or ban relevant topics.

Of course, but there is also a limited amount of instances available. We tried !privacyguides@lemmy.one, but it's shutting down soon.

If the privacy community has a really strong opinion about cryptocurrencies (which I don't think they do, as it's the most active community that isn't on .ml), we could organize a move to lemmy.ca. Although Lemmy.ca isn't maybe the best choice as they might need a Canadian-specific privacy community, and having both next to each other would be confusing.

Apologies if we didn’t discuss it before, I thought you and I had discussed the privacy community at least 3 times.

I vaguely remember it, but it's been a while, and my vague memories were that crytocurrencies could be discussed on other communities.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

vague memories were that crytocurrencies could be discussed on other communities.

yes... like !privacy@programming.dev so when i see campaigning to remove the few spaces where i can discuss things I care about... it gets my hackles up.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I like programming.dev (I am the main poster on !mechanical_keyboards@programming.dev ), but there always seem to be some technical issues with it, the most recent 11 days ago: https://programming.dev/post/31970658

The biggest issue was probably 7 months ago, when there was a database corruption that impacted the whole instance from 13th October to 12th of January: https://programming.dev/post/20515601?sort=New&view=Flat

Preferring one instance (dbzer0 in this case) doesn't mean other instances aren't as valuable, it's just choosing what is "the best fit" for a community