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.
insert xkcd 10,000 people obligatory everything is a repost
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.
If you repost something there is a good percentage of people who have never seen it. If you create it that percentage is 100%
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.
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
Not even... I crosspost from one Lemmy community to another.
I rather have a repost instead of all these motherfuckers only posting a link to some external website which throws a 404 error.
no_nothing demands only original trash for cm002 to regurgitate
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
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.
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.
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.
only one message for reposters: if you didn't make it, don't post your lazy regurgitated trash
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.
As long as I don't see "thanks stranger" and "happy cake day" I'm ok
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.
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
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?
Don’t forget Natalie Portman covered in hot grits along with Natalie Dormer and a clone of the former.
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
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 have blocked most bots that regurgitate Reddit content, you should try it because it's make for a more genuine experience when browsing All.
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