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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

I am a serial crossposter. And I'll keep crossposting whether you like it or not. You will not see OC from me, my friend.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

There's a simple reason why reposts will always happen, never stop: different people have seen different things. Your reposts are other people's never-seen-before content.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

insert xkcd 10,000 people obligatory everything is a repost

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Maybe this already exists, but what about a feature which allows tagging a post as a link to a previous/original post, which can be used by clients to filter out reposts if desired.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

no_nothing demands only original trash for cm002 to regurgitate

[–] Ensign_Crab 44 points 22 hours ago

I see we got reddit's whining about reposts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I accept reposts are a part of the fediverse because every instance will have the same damned memes and since I'm federated with quite a few of them, I'm just gonna have to deal with it. Just my take.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like apps could probably aggregate posts with the same links somehow and allow users to flip between comment threads; but I have no idea how to make that work on the backend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I'm not much of a dev at all but Id o use AI to help me build app infrastructure. If nothing else, it teaches you how python and react work.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I fail to see how sharing memes is a bad thing. Lemmy is a great community, its leagues better than what Reddit was, even in its heyday, and certainly better than the shit-buffet it has become.

While OC is great, it's really tough to make, especially at the frequency needed to provide new content and keep people interested. Further, 90% (or something) of people on here lurk, with the remaining 10% split between commentators and posters.

Don't like it? Vote with your feet.

[–] tourist 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

hi, yes, piece of shit here

where do I get more of them cute doggy memes with the subtle threats in those stylistic fonts

Also, like what breed of dog is that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I feel like you're probably joking but that's a possum, not a doggo.

I was gonna make a joke about not trying to pet one of those or you might get rabies, but it actually seems that they have natural resistance to rabies and are generally pretty chill animals. TIL.

https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/what-do-about-opossums

[–] tourist 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Managed to confuse someone besides myself while high

fuck yeah I think that could be an achievement

business acumen or something idk I'm high as fuck

tldr yeah was just being silly I know those aren't dogs.

...

While looking for an opossum meme on my phone, not finding it between all the Luigi Mangione memes, and taking one from Google images instead, I had an introspective thought. Apologies if the confusion thing came off as rude. I did not intend to insult you, I just intended on celebrating my silly.

With high doses of cannabis, for me, it's "think fun thoughts = feel good feelings". Sorry if I made you feel bad feelings. You got a really cool instance name, if that could possibly lift the mood and undo emotional damage. Also, I'm not just saying that. It's cyberpunk af which is sick as hell homie

an image of an opossum, "I captioned one day I'll shut up. Not today though." By the way, sorry if this is bad etiquette for accessibility use, but could you let me know if I can provide any help as someone with some JavaScript programming experience. I promise to not be intentionally cognitively quagmired.

(As caused by my mind-altering chemical intake)

(That previous additional caption joke was a coincidence, I did not know what the caption was before writing the accessibility description)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

God damn you really do be litty right now.

I didn't take it as rude or insulting at all, you're just overthinking and paranoid bc you're high af.

Plus I've already taken an immense amount of abuse on Lemmy because I'm an admin, people always end up popping off on me no matter what I do. I see you've been here a long time so you may remember a few months after the APIcalypse when trolls were spamming the most disgusting stuff and I had to keep banning them as quickly as I could. This guy took it personally 😂

[–] tourist 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Turds gushing like a broken damn

Uhh, I guess one could argue that it's poetic? Like he knows he's a piece of shit. He knows there are other pieces of shit. But he's too stupid to know that there are probably admins in multiple time zones when you go to sleep, NLP-powered blacklists and other automod tools. (I'm assuming)

wait did he set his username to specifically call you a slur?

we are definitely not smoking the same strain

probably not even smoking the same substance

I don't mean crack or bath salts or whatever

I mean like, carbon monoxide, leaded gasoline and rare deliriants.

Didn't know I was talking to a mod, so wasn't intending to ass-kiss. Uh let me say something to prove I'm not biased but not break the rules.

Your 2nd favourite song probably isn't all that great

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Yea he kept making new accounts and I kept banning them, so then he did that. Well, good luck with the rare deliriants my friend. Pour one out for me.

[–] MutilationWave 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Possums are awesomes! Possums eat ticks and other stuff you don't want around and are immune to rabies. Good animal to share space with.

[–] gofsckyourself 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

If reposting memes, then why not do a quick reverse image search and grab a better version, as well? It seriously only takes mere seconds most of the time.

Tineye works great, but there's also Google reverse image search when that doesn't provide the results you hope for.

Not only does this generally improve the experience for everyone, but it also makes the platform much more appealing to outsiders that care about quality and will drive more quality users to Lemmy. On top of quality, but also things like links to and information about the creators, which is especially important for things like comics because the more people that know where to find the creators the more those creators can keep making their art.

Obviously, I do my best to contribute to this, but the more people that join in the better.

[–] Harvey656 2 points 19 hours ago

But the jpeg artifacts make it funnier!

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago

eh Im just happy yall are here

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Bitching about reposts is of course very original

[–] Lost_My_Mind 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Perfect post 5/7 score! The narwalls bacon at midnight! Did your mom break both your arms?

[–] idiomaddict 5 points 23 hours ago

sigh unzips

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Don’t forget Natalie Portman covered in hot grits along with Natalie Dormer and a clone of the former.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't Natalie Portman and grits originally from Slashdot?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It happened closer to the construction of the Great Pyramids than to today.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You might be seeing posts from the 196 community, which recently split up (personally, I had the old ones blocked and then due to it splitting, the new 196 community showed up in my feed).

The 196 community is very much about quantity-over-quality, when it comes to posts, and as such reposts do happen often, too.
No shade on that, but it's also not for everyone, so yeah, you might want to just block those communities.

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[–] Draces 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then down vote it? Isn't that the point of that button? I'm assuming a big problem with Reddit was they wanted controversial posts seen which took away from the power of down voting but hopefully Lemmy doesn't? I don't actually know though

[–] fishos 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ahhh, the rallying cry of "just downvote it". I'd insert the "this your first time?" gif here if I could. Leaving a community to self moderate invariably turns into a popularity contest, and then when one group eventually takes over, an echo chamber usually filled with the same regurgitated spam. "If you don't like it just downvote it" or it's reverse "well it has a lot of upvotes, so someone must like it"(welcome to why we have so many bots today....) always ends up catering to the terminally online at the detriment of the average person. People far too often will speak with absolute confidence about things they have never even experienced, but because it's well formatted, it's sent to the top. The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect describes this in part.

[–] Draces 0 points 12 hours ago

This site is maybe the worst echo chamber I've ever experienced it's just one that suites my opinions. Hell even if I agree with the echo chamber but I'm the wrong way it gets rejected aggressively. If you think it's bots then that seems like a more legitimate complaint but if it's a repost getting enough upvotes and is not weighted for controversy then it's actually the terminally online people that know every post suffering with their obsession and not the community at large. I completely disagree with that theory

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Yeah, switching from reddit to lemmy gives a "old internet" wibe: actual people, most of them technically inclined. But with more adoption, these people get diluted by all other kinds of folks.

Same happened with cypto scene. It started with cythography entusiasts, but now it is mostly tech bros.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (9 children)

How to about that bot that reposts r/buildapc? What even is the point of reposting people's questions if they they're on another platform and won't see the it?

[–] donuts 17 points 1 day ago

I have blocked most bots that regurgitate Reddit content, you should try it because it's make for a more genuine experience when browsing All.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

There's stuff I wouldn't see otherwise because I'm not on other networks. I'm fine with bringing stuff here from elsewhere.

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

I've enabled option that won't show read posts, cool thing actually

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kinda like the guy that was posting daily screenshots of his gaming sessions that spawned like, three copycats this past summer?

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