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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[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They are reposting, within minutes, the original content other users provide, with the intention to reduce the interaction they might be getting, even if asked to please stop it. How is that ok, honestly i don't get how you guys can think that way?

I have never spent time in a social media setting where people like this were tolerated.

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Serious question, could this be of benefit to the content creators assuming original attribution and links are preserved? Sounds like it spreads their work to instances that have defederated the original. I don't think the reposter user sees much benefit. I know Pizza Cake comics, might buy from her website or donate, but couldn't care less who posts them.

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess, in some scenarios, but that is not what i was talking about here really. Also "even if asked to please stop it".

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yea that's not nice. If it's a pet project for them they need a blacklist. If it's manual and they're willingly ignoring the request that's definitely bad.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For additional context: https://feddit.org/post/11584891

Edit:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38123874/16778928

[–] bonjour@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Are you ok? What does the PSA i posted to do with any of this?

Maybe a better context would be this:
https://sopuli.xyz/post/27585313?scrollToComments=true