this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 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.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

insert xkcd 10,000 people obligatory everything is a repost

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

To be fair, I purposely didn't do a deep dive on xkcd so that whenever I did see a related post in the comments, it was almost always fresh to me. I figured this was true of a lot of people online.

[–] DSTGU@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

If you repost something there is a good percentage of people who have never seen it. If you create it that percentage is 100%

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WbrJr@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Crossposts Form reddit? I though about building a bot that posts the top 3 posts every day to the correspinding lemmy instance, just to get more posts here.

I Mike lemmy for its very technical posts but sometimes i would like some more shitposts here :D

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 4 days ago

Not even... I crosspost from one Lemmy community to another.

[–] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 12 points 6 days ago

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

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago

no_nothing demands only original trash for cm002 to regurgitate

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

That's literally the meaning of meme or memetic; ideas are passed on like a virus. I know it's annoying to repost memes but that is the circle of memes xD

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days 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.

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days 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.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days 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.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

only one message for reposters: if you didn't make it, don't post your lazy regurgitated trash

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days 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.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

As long as I don't see "thanks stranger" and "happy cake day" I'm ok

[–] PantanoPete@tucson.social 1 points 6 days ago
[–] eli@lemmings.world 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Lemmyers are just redditors that have marginally more care for privacy. The venn diagram is nearly a circle

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lemmyers

The official term is Lemmings.

[–] Lilstinker69@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I've heard "Lemmies", too

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Speak for yourself ha.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 96 points 1 week 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.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

But the jpeg artifacts make it funnier!

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 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

[–] CaptnKarisma@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 week ago

eh Im just happy yall are here

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

I see we got reddit's whining about reposts.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

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[–] verstra@programming.dev 29 points 1 week 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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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week 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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[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago

Bitching about reposts is of course very original

[–] President@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week 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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