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 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

If it absolutely must be copied then the cross post mechanism should be used.

We literally have reposting bots for hackernews, reddit, Twitter, etc. It's nearly infinite content out there.

Hurting Lemmy users makes it harder to grow the platform

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We literally have reposting bots for hackernews, reddit, Twitter, etc. It's nearly infinite content out there.

Theft is theft. It's all shit and should be frowned upon.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Yep. It's why I've blocked most repost bots. It's just a barren thread with content from elsewhere that might even not exist on the original platform anymore

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