Memes

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.

eh Im just happy yall are here

I see we got reddit's whining about reposts.

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

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.

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.

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.

Bitching about reposts is of course very original

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.

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?

I rather have a repost instead of all these motherfuckers only posting a link to some external website which throws a 404 error.

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

no_nothing demands only original trash for cm002 to regurgitate

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.

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

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.

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