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Content jacking/reposting is a problem on Lemmy.
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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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
thanks, that explains why some of my posts are also copied to other instances 🤔
If the cross post feature is used, does it merge comments as well?
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.
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
Theft happening to others, maybe. Try stealing from them ;)
That being said, I agree this is the moderator's job to deal with it but keep in mind that:
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When it's the mod doing it?