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Content jacking/reposting is a problem on Lemmy. (hackertalks.com)
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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] 10 points 2 weeks ago (26 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?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (24 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

thanks, that explains why some of my posts are also copied to other instances 🤔

[–] Blaze 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hello,

I dm'd you a few days ago about [email protected] and asking whether there any reason to not use [email protected]

The second one is quite more active: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=privacy&order=active_month

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There is a extremely good reason not to use a privacy community that forbids talking about cryptography.

We have had this discussion many times. Pretending it doesn't matter is just being obtuse at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, I can't feel this poster is arguing in good faith. At this point it's so redundant, it reads like "any excuse will do."

[–] Blaze 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jet apologized in the comment below, so not sure why you say this shouldn't be in good faith.

https://hackertalks.com/comment/9379197

[–] Blaze 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be completely honest, I forgot about the crypto rule.

Lee Duna also posted several articles to that community in the past: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/search?q=+&type=Posts&listingType=All&communityId=1111729&creatorId=430615&page=1&sort=New

So I'm not sure that is drove their decision.

We have had this discussion many times.

The previous threads didn't mention this point

Pretending it doesn’t matter is just being obtuse at this point.

Not sure why you're being so aggressive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm being forthright because concentrating communities to instances has repercussions especially when the moderators of the new instance defederate aggressively or ban relevant topics.

Apologies if we didn't discuss it before, I thought you and I had discussed the privacy community at least 3 times. In fact I blocked it due to people cross posting content to it.

[–] Blaze 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m being forthright because concentrating communities to instances has repercussions especially when the moderators of the new instance defederate aggressively or ban relevant topics.

Of course, but there is also a limited amount of instances available. We tried [email protected], but it's shutting down soon.

If the privacy community has a really strong opinion about cryptocurrencies (which I don't think they do, as it's the most active community that isn't on .ml), we could organize a move to lemmy.ca. Although Lemmy.ca isn't maybe the best choice as they might need a Canadian-specific privacy community, and having both next to each other would be confusing.

Apologies if we didn’t discuss it before, I thought you and I had discussed the privacy community at least 3 times.

I vaguely remember it, but it's been a while, and my vague memories were that crytocurrencies could be discussed on other communities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

vague memories were that crytocurrencies could be discussed on other communities.

yes... like [email protected] so when i see campaigning to remove the few spaces where i can discuss things I care about... it gets my hackles up.

[–] Blaze 1 points 2 weeks ago

I like programming.dev (I am the main poster on [email protected] ), but there always seem to be some technical issues with it, the most recent 11 days ago: https://programming.dev/post/31970658

The biggest issue was probably 7 months ago, when there was a database corruption that impacted the whole instance from 13th October to 12th of January: https://programming.dev/post/20515601?sort=New&view=Flat

Preferring one instance (dbzer0 in this case) doesn't mean other instances aren't as valuable, it's just choosing what is "the best fit" for a community

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