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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] 3 points 6 days ago (10 children)

I think kuato meant how Lemmy was created due to those devs being kicked off of Reddit for being too toxic.

And unlike Lemmy, Reddit really was trying to cancel them, at least on their platform.

Fwiw I didn't want to cancel Lemmy.ml nor even want to defederate from it... at first. I only wished for it to label itself properly, as e.g. Beehaw has done. If it said like "we are a tankie instance and absolutely no criticism of Russia, China, or North Korea will be tolerated here, and we WILL ban you from communities that you've never even so much as heard of all across our entire instance if you ever do anything that we do not like". Beehaw has a message along those lines, and it is getting along just fine. However, it seems like it would limit the influence of that instance if they were to be honest about application of that label so... they refuse. 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.

I wish that I could praise the Lemmy devs for the good they have done, even while also criticizing them for the bad. However, the more that I learn the less ah... "compatible" with democratic principles their authoritarian actions seem to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (5 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] 1 points 5 days ago (2 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] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's no such technical reason

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Ah, good to know!

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