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.
There’s always
[OC]
Ye, but not in most communities.
It’s just text you can put in the title.
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.
- “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 …
- “none of the major communies have that hint in their description”
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 @can@sh.itjust.works said
I’m here for conversation and seeing perspectives new to me. Cheers to the folks who create art or coding projects or whatever, I’ll enjoy the OC that interests me and be happy for the Creator’s talents, but that’s not the primary reason I’m on Lemmy.
