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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[–] psychadlligoat@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Complaining about "stolen" memes on these forums is always cringe as fuck

especially to us enlightened piefed users who get them all combined anyway

[–] Microw@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Tbf on some communities you get original content write-ups about various topics, not just low effort memes.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago

Cringe, sure, but it is still in bad taste, it's not about ownership in my mind

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 1 week ago (3 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.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (9 children)

One question for @jet@hackertalks.com

I've been reposting content from !buyfromeu@feddit.org and !BuyFromEU@europe.pub to !buyeuropean@feddit.uk when that movement was still very active.

There was even a !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com post about it: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39614799

My rationale was that

due to the current way Lemmy handles crossposts (compared to Piefed), comments of crossposts are not consolidated, so people will only see the comments from one posts, which means that discussions should happen on one single community to be seen by everyone
there were no rules or moderation policies differences between the three communities

Wanting to consolidate similar communities is a regular topic here, with the last attempt from 2 days ago: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47122168

But sometimes some posters just want to stick to their home instance rather than consolidate.

I've been in a similar situation for !android@lemdro.id and !android@lemmy.world, as well as !movies@piefed.social and !movies@lemmy.world . There was a regular poster who would only post to the LW versions, even though I reached out several times to them, offering them mod positions on the other communities.

They now stopped posting, so the two non-LW communities are now more active than the LW versions, but that's a bit unfortunate as it would have been better to have them continue posting on .

In those cases, should content crossposting stop?

We usually tell people "if you don't like a community, make your own and convince people it is better". Having more content usually makes a community better. And also, in a lot of cases, people just repost content from Reddit anyway.

Open for comments and discussions.

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