• Hegar@fedia.io
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    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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    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.

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    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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    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.

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    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.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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      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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        now that it’s over

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

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          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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              Trump is also actively antagonizing almost all of the rest of the world. It’s not a US-only subject anymore.

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

    Life is too short to…YAWN

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    There are old things that are new to some people. You can watch reruns on TV, rewatch movies you’ve seen before and listen to music that’s 60 years old.

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      At this point the original is buried far enough that the joke probably isn’t very obvious anymore, but someone posted this unironically a couple days ago, so I turned around and reposted it to two additional communities just to be on-the-nose about this type of whining.

      Content is content - 99% of people don’t care if it’s been posted before