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 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy as a social media discussion forum is about human attention. The economy of success on lemmy is curating a audience and having their attention both in terms of voting, but more importantly, in terms of discussions.

Competition between communities is healthy and good

Better content
Better curation
Better community (welcoming, etc)

Trying to "boycott" or starve out other communities by making them "redundant" by burning out human attention on lemmy is bad for everyone

Lemmy feels empty
Repetition of content is wasting people's time
Dividing the conversation drives people away

If you hate a community, make a better community, don't try to burn out everyone who likes the old community.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Repetition of content is wasting people’s time

Not when crossposts are used: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47235271/19582739

Lemmy feels empty
Dividing the conversation drives people away

Piefed solves that issue: https://piefed.zip/post/100161

All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view

A few options

https://piefed.social/ - flagship instance
https://piefed.zip/ - lemmy.zip team
https://piefed.ca/ - lemmy.ca team
https://feddit.online/

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

not everyone is using piefed.

And if everyone was using piefed that merges cross posts, this war against instances makes even less sense.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Mbin has at similar approach where it is possible to see the number of comments on other communities:

https://fedia.io/m/linux@programming.dev/t/2321464/New-Linux-Flaws-Enable-Full-Root-Access-via-PAM-and#comments

This issue is due to Lemmy.

The Lemmy devs recently stated that this is a client problem, and that they don't plan to change that

In lemmy-ui we’ve chosen to link the posts at the top rather than combine comment threads.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46984024/19528869

And if everyone was using piefed that merges cross posts, this war against instances makes even less sense.

Instances still have different moderation policies. A comment could get on banned on one instance and allowed on another. Being able to see them all doesn't change that.