• M500@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      That’s my thinking as well. A long time o ago in reddit, people were always claiming things were reposts, but it was new to me.

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        It would be nice if there would be attribution for reposts. Maybe subreddits and such could do weekly / monthly / annual / all-time highlights? Feel like I need to say that I hate FB and deleted mine, BUT the “memories” thing could be interesting in a place like Reddit or Lemmy.

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          2 months ago

          What if I saw it elsewhere and posted it? I wouldn’t know it was a repost. And I expect that is what is mostly happening.

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            It actually doesn’t really bother me, especially with memes and random internet content like that. I’ve seen posts on Reddit that were actual art, where the title of the repost implies the poster created the art and that it’s not a repost. It’s lame for a few reasons, such as commenters trying to engage with the alleged creator and the OP not replying, then people finding out it’s a repost, etc. But, honestly, whatever.

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    2 months ago

    Not that I’m defending the behavior, but what more elaboration is needed? They’ve seen it before, that’s all they’re saying

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    Memes are reposts! That’s their defining characteristic! They become memes by being reposted! If they didn’t get reposted, they would not be memes!

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    2 months ago

    imagine someone being so self centered that they think everyone has seen every meme theyve seen.

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    It’s such a Reddit thing. I’d almost forgotten that there were people whose only contribution to the site culture was to remind people how cool they were because they’d already seen everything.

    God I love hexbear.

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      2 months ago

      Thanks to whatever app I’m using for showing the thumbnail of links, I’m never gonna give me what?! I still have the music in my head now!

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    2 months ago

    Wow, awesome, like we haven’t already seen this post 15 times in the last 2 weeks. Nice low effort repost, “OP”!

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    2 months ago

    Ah, yes. The Repost Police. A group of individuals out to inform everyone that they’re proud of spending far too much time on socials, even though no one cares to know.

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      2 months ago

      Some clients will highlight bots

      If you go to lemmy.world on a browser you can hide accounts that have flagged themselves as bots

      I have bot accounts hidden because during the Reddit Exodus there was so many bots posting content form reddit to ideally drive engagement and discussion but no one commented so they just felt spammy to me

      Hopefully this makes sense I had to stop mid sentence to do something and I’m too tired to proof read

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        Repost bots existed to farm karma to sell the accounts for advertising purposes. The bots that mark themselves as such wouldn’t repost (other than the reddit-to-lemmy bots you mentioned, but that’s not really reposting anyways)