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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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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

I have to say I haven't come across this issue too often as I basically never browse /All. But I definitely have noticed this with cm0002's personal crusade against .ml pissing off more than one poster in communities I follow.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

yeah, that is exactly who is causing the pain. I was blissfully ignorant of it, until someone explained their grevience and I labeled them in voyager as a jacker, and now I see how duplicative and bad for lemmy they make everybody's experience.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

So, are we all just supposed to accept the .ml instance bans? https://feddit.nl/post/16246531

I'm not the biggest fan of the way @cm0002@lemmy.world handles this, but at the same time, the usual recommendation for people unhappy with the way a community was managed was to make their own.

Also, the "authorship" issue is brought up a few times in this threads, but don't @cm0002@lemmy.world posts always credit the original author?

Examples:

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 16 points 1 month ago (14 children)

After a post author has already been made aware of an alternative community and has asked cm0002 multiple times to stop reposting their original content there, continuing to do so anyway is extremely rude. Yes, the internet is free, the content is out there and there is nothing stopping cm0002 from continuing to repost it. But there is also nothing stopping me from thinking he's a fucking asshole whose efforts create more hatred and internal division on this platform than it unites us.

Some of the communities he wages war against have zero political connections (such as !crows@lemmy.ml) and have never once even approached a moment of controversy with a mod or admin.

But he is on a mission from God as a hero of the people in his just crusade against the evils of the internet or whatever, so in his own words it "must be done".

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[–] goferking0@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I have never seen them credit the original. Occasionally will see them saying it's from an ml ask lemmy but they put more effort into bragging about taking it off an ml space than credit

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

are we all just supposed to accept the .ml instance bans?

I think you should. You have the remainder of the English-speaking internet in which to post popular CIA disinformation about the failed June 4th color revolution without any pushback. Why do you need this space too?

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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

It's especially stupid since karma isn't a thing on Lemmy. Karma was fake on reddit, but people love a good mental feedback mechanism. Here, though, you're just being a dick if you steal content.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I could not agree more. @cm0002@lemmy.world could maybe use a bit of self-reflection in that regard.

[–] goferking0@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Getting worse with them now doing it to ask lemmy posts

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago (57 children)

Yeah bro just decided to be a dick about it to random individuals.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 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

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wait, so what you're complaining about is something other than crossposts? 'Cause to me, this thread sounded like you were just bitching about crossposts.

Edit: you should copy your explanation here into your initial post itself so that we all understand what you were actually talking about.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Agreed, I wasn't sure what Jet was talking about.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Another problem Piefed has solved by aggregating crossposts into a single thread.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You've piqued my interest.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

PieFed has flairs, spoilers, polls, topics, feeds (like multireddits), better mod and reporting tools. All for you to check out!

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I haven't seen this, so can't speak on it. What's the difference between someone reposting the same article/crossposting and content jacking?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 15 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Let's say you make a niche post about a programming feature

2-6 hours later someone copies your post exactly but doesn't cross post. Now people browsing by New see the copy first and if they do see the original it feels redundant/ spammy.

If people do talk about this niche thing it's likely they won't be talking in the same place.

You as the poster won't see the engagement with your content, you won't see comments, and you may be less incentivized to post again

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the cross post feature is used, does it merge comments as well?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It does on Piefed

https://piefed.zip/post/100161

All comments from 5 crossposts in a single view

A few options

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Thanks for explaining. If someone is stealing posts, then it's up to the moderators and/or admins to deal with that.

But as I said, there's a lot of people on Lemmy that think theft is okay. Hence sanctioning bots to steal content from elsewhere on the net.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 1 month ago

At least with the bot, it's clear that this is one way communication, and usually the bots tell you where it's coming from.

But just a person copying everything, so you think they're the original creator, but they're not. Which means if you respond to that post, they're not going to respond, they don't care. They're just stealing. They're trying to move everybody to their new community

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[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Happy with how PieFed deals with it. Lemmy often feels like a ghost town with posts having zero comments. PieFed combining them takes most of that away, and I guess it reduces any incentive to 'pinch' other people's posts?

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 1 month 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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