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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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (32 children)

So, are we all just supposed to accept the .ml instance bans? https://feddit.nl/post/16246531

I'm not the biggest fan of the way @cm0002@lemmy.world handles this, but at the same time, the usual recommendation for people unhappy with the way a community was managed was to make their own.

Also, the "authorship" issue is brought up a few times in this threads, but don't @cm0002@lemmy.world posts always credit the original author?

Examples:

[–] goferking0@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I have never seen them credit the original. Occasionally will see them saying it's from an ml ask lemmy but they put more effort into bragging about taking it off an ml space than credit

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

The two examples I linked literally have the name of the question author in the post body

[–] goferking0@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So they finally started today? Still would prefer them to cross post or include the op link.

Especially on ask posts

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of the time there is nothing to crosspost for a question, the whole content is in the title

Exception with some text in the body, from 4 days ago: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46961027

[–] goferking0@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The point is doing this way removes any of the joint discussion a cross post would bring.

Then there's all the other content they scrape without any tie to where they found it like news and memes.

In their desire to, honestly don't know anymore what their rage boner against ml is anymore, kill ml to make lemmy more like reddit they're making them look like a crazed ex by the frequency and speed of posting what they grabbed from othet places.

At this point would be more favorable if they were a mirror bot than just manually doing this

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The point is doing this way removes any of the joint discussion a cross post would bring.

There is no other way to do so as Lemmy identifies crossposts based on URL links. When there is no link, it's not possible to identify a crosspost.

Then there’s all the other content they scrape without any tie to where they found it like news and memes.

The crossposts are visible for memes and news:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47235271/19582739

[–] kux@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

There is no other way to do so

the obvious other way about it is to just stop

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