• Hegar@fedia.io
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    6 hours 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.

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    4 hours 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@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours 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 😂

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    3 hours 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.

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    7 hours 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.

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      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.

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      6 hours 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.

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        6 hours ago

        now that it’s over

        Oh, man. Where is that “living under a rock” video when I need it?

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          6 hours 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.

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            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.

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    6 hours ago

    This but unironically! You wouldn’t download a car, you wouldn’t repost a meme. Property is theft good, actually.