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 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