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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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought there was another technical reason besides that - perhaps the list of what communities exist across the Fediverse comes from there? I don't mean like a traditional post but something internal (tbh I don't really fully know what I'm talking about here, just "something" that if Lemmy.ml were defederated from, instance admins would have to build other means to retrieve. Which likely isn't all that hard.)

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

There's no such technical reason

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, good to know!