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 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Like I did in making a petition to defederate hexbear from Discuss.Online, perhaps you would like to petition PieFed.social to defederate Lemmy.ml? Lemmy.World never will, and likely discuss.online and all the others too, because of the software considerations - although PieFed.World might? (it has not yet: I still see lemmy.ml communities listed on it) You would be a good person to list out the references and make a cogent argument for the need to do so? !piefed_meta@piefed.social might be the best place to send it.

Chicken-and-egg problem

People don't want to defederate lemmy.ml due to large communities !privacy, !linux etc being hosted there
Those communities stay the most active on their topics
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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 point 1 year ago

Excellent point. Though at some point a breaking away simply has to be done... or else give up and accept that this is simply how things will always be. In the meantime, we can work towards widening this narrow set of solutions?! :-D

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