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Is there any way to flag OC lemmy/fediverse posts? Maybe an optional checkbox "OC lemmy/fediverse content" or something that marks the post with an OC badge or something similar? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have the impression that the lion's share of all posts on Lemmy are reposts or screenshots from other platforms. I don't mean links to other sites of course, after all Lemmy is a Reddit clone and thus a link aggregator. I just think that Lemmy can't survive if there is no way to make people aware that a particular post is OC to a fediverse-Plattform. I suspect that the Lemmy community would appreciate the effort that went into creating OC that wasn't posted anywhere else - there's just no way to tag Lemmy OC.

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[–] can 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's always

[OC]

[+] [email protected] -7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ye, but not in most communities.

[–] can 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's just text you can put in the title.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, sure. But none of the major communies have that hint in their description. Meaning this practice is not common in most of the major communities. For example: I have not seen [OC] on any post in /memes.

Edit: It's common in /pics. But that is a given.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

“none of the major communies have that hint in their description”
- because the “[OC]” convention predates Lemmy by a LONG shot (easily predates Reddit as well)
“I have not seen [OC] on any post in /memes”
- any of the c/memes communities are not going to be focusing (or care) about original content – and since most memes are closer to the Ship of Theseus (or more accurately, layered palimpsests), it’s hard to call it OC – the current poster would be closer to a conductor or a DJ than to a creator …

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Minor addition: Slapping an [OC] into the title can also come across as pretentious so some people don't want to use that "tag", especially if it were something super extra special like a badge. For everyone else, just putting those two letters into the title shouldn't be hard.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Exactly, so why should I go to the trouble of making OC exclusive to Lemmy? Isn't that what the Community wants?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I just think that Lemmy can’t survive if there is no way to make people aware that a particular post is OC to a fediverse-Plattform.

I have seriously no idea what you even mean by that. Care to elaborate why a site that managed to exist without an OC tag for nearly half a decade is suddenly doomed if there's no extra OC tag now? Or why good content can not be appreciated if it doesn't have the right tags?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Well, maybe lemmy is just not for me.

Edit:

I expect a social media site to produce original content via its community. Even on a link aggregator style site, there should be more than just expressing an opinion - I can and should do that to greater effect on the site that provided the content in the fist place. After all, it's about a discussion, not about seeing my particular opinion validated by many like-minded people. So I'm of the opinion that Lemmy needs original content. If that can't be encouraged even at a basic UI level, I have little hope that lemmy will ever produce genuine content, because there's no point in going to the trouble if you can just post some link or screenshot to greater effect instead, which you just copy and paste from another post on another platform. And that's where the problem lies for me: I don't think Lemmy has enough relevance just by commenting on bot posts. That's why I'm asking for possible solutions, but nobody seems to want to hear that here. So my quick answer was: "Well, maybe lemmy is just not for me." Simply because I thought that meaningful, objective dialog and genuine content would be possible here. After about 8 months on this platform, I can't generally confirm that. This post with a rather neutral question confirms my negative impression - only downvotes. You can perhaps imagine that this didn't go as I would have hoped. Maybe it was the word "flag" that did not go well with the folks here, but that is basically what i meant: make OC content more prominent because it takes way more effort then your standard link or copy/paste meme. Please just give at least some credit to real the content - that would be a very welcomed change from your average social site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

as you said, Lemmy is a link aggregator – you post your original content to Pixelfed or Peertube or Funkwhale or Pleroma or Mastodon or a dozen other services and post the link to Lemmy with “[OC]” in the title as @[email protected] said

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

I mean OC in a litteral sence. Not OC in the sence of "I made a screenshot of x an posted it here" - this is not OC at all. I mean truly original content: things that have been posted on lemmy or any fediverse platforms and can't be found anywhere else (at least not originally). In my experience, this content is the core of every social media application. If Lemmy doesn't have this content, the platform is just not viable in my opinion. Imho original content created by the community is the essence of a particular social media app - that is proof that a community even exists. This seems to be true even for 4chan as well as TikTok, meta or YouTube (the latter two platforms pay content creators directly btw - not well, but still). All I'm asking is whether it wouldn't make sense to at least highlight the actual original content somehow.

Also: See my comment to @[email protected]. - did not get an answer tho...