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Content jacking/reposting is a problem on Lemmy. (hackertalks.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And because of how they are tied to the sourcecode, UNLIKE Hexbear and lemmygrad, there are extraordinary few instance admins that will go against that.

Lemmy.cafe defederated just fine. The release announcements are made on the Lemmy blog too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days 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.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

There's no such technical reason

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Is also the only general instance of note to do so, I love it for it, but it doesn't make enough of a statement to the outside rep of the Threadiverse to make a damn for growth purposes. And I don't think the admin of .cafe has the resources to scale either, not like .world does so it's not like we can just massively dump newcomers to it either