• Hegar
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    695 months ago

    Reposting popular material isn’t a reddit thing, it’s a human thing.

    There will always be someone who just discovered that whatever from a couple years ago and likes it enough to post it. The larger the user base, the more common this becomes.

    • Gormadt
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      335 months ago

      One of today’s “lucky 10,000” as it were.

      Relavemt XKCD comic

    • FundMECFS
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      145 months ago

      Yep. I actually don’t mind it as long as it’s not constant. It’s nice to see things again.

      • caseyweederman
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        25 months ago

        Voat (something I used before I realized it was just a racism thing (I know, I know, it’s very obvious in retrospect)) would point you at an existing post if you posted the same link.
        The execution was bad, and I have some issues with the concept, but it did make me think maybe there is a solution to that particular problem.

        • @JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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          35 months ago

          In a different universe, most social medias use OCR and image recognition technology to handle this instantly and easily. This meant a huge reduction in bandwidth and storage issues on the great WWW which eventually lead to world peace.

          This universe seems to be… Behind where it’s supposed to be?

  • @realitista@lemm.ee
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    205 months ago

    When you really kinda like the Lemmy fediverse thing, but people post their memes to multiple communities without using crospost so you keep seeing the same thing over and over.

  • Pika
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    145 months ago

    As someone who left reddit over 2 years ago never go go back, a lot of the posts that people classified as “reddit reports” I have never seen before 😂

  • .Donuts
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    95 months ago

    I think it’s more common when communities are newly created, as people want to populate the community with some content to kickstart activity and interest.

    So hopefully it’ll just even out eventually, when communities become more self-sustaining and active.

    • bizarroland
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      65 months ago

      One of the fundamental issues is that it’s just people.

      People are going to talk about things like people do, and just because it ends up looking like Reddit or whatever doesn’t mean that this is a bad thing.

      It just means that format is one of the ways that people tend to communicate.

  • AItoothbrush
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    95 months ago

    Almost as if its a reddit alternative… then again you can select which communities you wanna see and the smaller ones are pretty good usually.

    • Pika
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      25 months ago

      I think that politics being overbearing is hopefully just a trait of the election in the US, now that it’s over hopefully the US politics fanatics can move on to bigger and better things. Fingers Crossed.

        • Pika
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          15 months ago

          I may be optimistic, it didn’t seem to be that way prior to the US election cycle, then again though, there were less people at that time.

          • IndescribablySad@threads.net
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            95 months ago

            In short, the US is in the process of being turned into a full-on oligarchy or a dictatorship. There will be quite a bit of conversation about politics for the foreseeable future.

          • @marcos@lemmy.world
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            15 months ago

            The world was different before their elections.

            It’s not even something you can escape by changing your community. We will have some more time of the US dominating the discussion. Here’s hope it’s not a lot more time, but we will have some.

  • @GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
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    55 months ago

    In the biological sciences world, this is known as “you are what you eat”. My impression is that this place has always kinda been the most popular alternative destination for redditors (exes or otherwise).

  • Brewchin
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    45 months ago

    Can’t escape Cory Doctorow’s observation that the internet is “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four”.

    We may be away from those 5 sites, but the behaviours and content from them is very much here.

  • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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    35 months ago

    When you see an account that repost too much common shit just block them.

    Life is too short to…YAWN