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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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I wish people only posted things they wanted to talk about. That would mean the entire feed are possible conversations to have.

I try to only post things I'd be happy to talk about.

Maybe it would be interesting to see a poster score based on how many of their posts they don't engage with once someone makes a comment.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Maybe it would be interesting to see a poster score based on how many of their posts they don't engage with once someone makes a comment.

I thought about that as well. It's a bit tricky to pull it off. But ultimately I think the entire voting system on Lemmy and hence the way it sorts posts is a bit suboptimal. People upvote memes, the ragebait of the day, simple truths. Content that I find interesting or an interesting and long opinions regularly end up with 0-3 upvotes and float to the bottom. So I mainly discard what kind of scores this place has and sort by "new" anyway. It'd be really great if I had some score available to tell me if some content is what I like to read.

I wish people only posted things they wanted to talk about. That would mean the entire feed are possible conversations to have.

A hundred percent that.

I'm pretty sure we're the minority here. Most people seem to like it the other way around. (Need..more..posts in everyone's timeline.) I'm pretty sure it's also a big part of the equation of why Lemmy always stagnates and we're stuck at 45k users. We've been doing it the "re-post" way a long time now, and we can see the results of that. We shove around content because of some reasons, but we should come up with original and genuine content instead. I think what we need is foster a nice atmosphere. Genuine human conversation underneath posts with above average quality. That'd grow Lemmy and make it a better place. (And instead we dump more posts/noise, and we can see where we're headed with that.)

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am insanely guilty of the content dump, figuring it'll prove a community active, but aside from "awww!" comments on !bunnies@lemmy.world where there just is not much to build off of, I also reply to almost every comment I get because I also want to have conversations.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think that's fine. At least from the "dump" perspective, because you're not just dumping something but tend to what you post. And you're part of the conversation so you add something of substance there.

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