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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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The point is doing this way removes any of the joint discussion a cross post would bring.

There is no other way to do so as Lemmy identifies crossposts based on URL links. When there is no link, it's not possible to identify a crosspost.

Then there’s all the other content they scrape without any tie to where they found it like news and memes.

The crossposts are visible for memes and news:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47235271/19582739

[–] kux@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

There is no other way to do so

the obvious other way about it is to just stop