UPDATE: What it seems like the general opinion in response to this post is that we allow Reddit content to be posted here but it must be complete and not require a jump to Reddit to get the full story. I propose allowing Reddit posts but not requiring attribution, and if you want to link to the original, do it in a comment for those that want it but not in the post body. If that is objectionable, we can work on the rule more. I am going to make this change today but it’s not immutable if you guys don’t like the outcome. I’ll leave this post pinned for a couple more days to facilitate any further discussion.
Hey guys, Rule 8 of this community calls out that it is okay to repost from Reddit (this rule preexisted my tenure here), but it seems to be pissing a lot of you off (and I get it too). Since it’s in the rules right now I can’t remove the posts so I am going to leave this post up for a few days to find out if you guys want to change rule 8 to prohibit reposting from Reddit. Personally I hate Reddit, but at the end of the day this community belongs to all of us. Let me know what you want to do and we’ll go with the community consensus.
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Reposting a picture? No problem.
Reposting text from or just a link to a reddit post? That’s weird, don’t do that.But most of those posts are like discussions. So picture alone might not be enough
Unless that repost is from the original poster on Reddit than I think it’s annoying. Why should I comment on a post when the OP isn’t even here to participate?
That’s an excellent point. If the purpose of this community is discussion then reposts are harmful to that since for this community especially it’s going to be a lot of clarifying questions about a given picture, etc.
I dunno.
On one hand, fuck reddit.
On another, if a given poster is also mildly annoyed at the subject matter enough to repost, then isn’t it still their post here?
Or, on the third hand, if scrollers are popping in to talk, doesn’t it serve the same purpose as a legit original post?
I would, however, on the fourth hand like to see it explicitly stated that just linking to reddit ain’t cool. Because it ain’t. Copy paste the post so nobody has to go there to enjoy it here.
On the fifth hand, I suggest speaking to a geneticist because having five hands for a human is plain strange.
I firmly agree with everything you said there, and I want to add that if the main reasoning for wanting to remove the rule is “fuck Reddit” , then that means that this concept itself is a picture example of a mildly infuriating post.
And by that I mean, It’s mildly infuriating when someone just blanket decides that because they hate something, that everything about that thing is bad and nobody else should be able to see it. It’s almost never a black and white concept.
Just go to reddit if you want to see reddit posts like it’s not hate it’s just why are we even here if we just read the same things we can read on reddit
Some people are here because they don’t want to be on reddit, either due to issues with the platform or otherwise. But that doesn’t mean the content posted is bad, nor does it mean that it shouldn’t be shared. By that logic any external links or content shouldn’t be allowed on lemmy either. At the end of the day, lemmy is a federated link aggregator. That is it’s purpose to allow for aggregation of content. You can take that entire argument and apply any other external website and it would be equally valid
Even moreso with this community to be honest, where most content is opinionated, its hard to argue that someones opinion isn’t valid, so if they share the same opinion? I don’t see why that is a bad thing to share it.
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I don’t mind people moving content from Reddit to the threadiverse. I do mind posting titles that claim authorship of a post when you are reposting someone else’s content. I am mildly opposed to including links to the original reddit post when reposting from reddit, but I wouldn’t ask a mod to enforce that preference cuz you’ve got stuff to do. Just my two cents; it’s whatever the community wants and you’re willing to do.
or reposting and removing the date/timestamp to hide the obvious when it was post originally, as if to make it like a newly fresh post screenshotted from twitter.
I’d keep allowing it but remove the requirement to credit the OC if it’s from reddit.
Yes. Drain reddit content is good for lemmy. This gonna hurt pigboi a lot. Reddit started their mobile bullshit, now let’s hurt them back
Personally, if it’s organic, and by that I mean not automated, and someone went to Reddit, saw the post, and then reposted it Here, I don’t have any issue with that.
I don’t use Reddit, so any mildly infuriating post that gets posted from there to here is a post that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
As long as I’m not forced to go to Reddit to interact with it, which so far out of what I’ve seen in this community I haven’t had to because it’s usually the picture and the post description lemmy side as well so I have no big issue with it
Just because Reddit is a shit site, and I don’t like it, doesn’t mean that all content on the site isn’t worth anything, and if it’s something that’s cool or entertaining, and someone wants to bring it here, I’m all for it.
What’s wrong with draining reddit content and increasing lemmy user share?
Why would anny lemmyist be against that? It’s almost like some of people complaining are reddit plants.
why would anyone be against draining shitty content into our feeds? Gee I wonder? We don’t need more content we need content to be real, human, and as high quality as possible.
When it comes to this community, I don’t feel like reddit reposts are appropriate in most cases. If it’s the same user posting on both reddit and lemmy, then it’s fine
I vote no Reddit.
What’s wrong with draining reddit content and increasing lemmy user share?
Wanna hurt pigboy - content drain is the way
I blocked the spammy git that kept doing that, I don’t feel they added anything of value to the community.
We shouldn’t send them traffic, but I have interest in good content from there. Repost without linking to Reddit.
I think images/meme level stuff is fine. As long as it’s resharing something that is resonating rather than just reposting. i.e. posting the image or video directly rather than linking to Reddit. And as others mentioned, a text story is likely to be inappropriate, unless we do the whole screenshot other social media site trend which is fine imo
So I came here to get away from reddit and I do hate posts from reddit. All the same what I really hate is pictures and links with no context. A lot of reddit posts I have seen are screenshots with no context and I find those real annoying. Recently someon had a post where they wrote a lot and retold the story in their own words and put links for reference. That does not bother me at all. Honeslty its basically how I would like to see things here. Real posts from people who say what they think if they are introducing something like a picture or link. So I guess for me its a bit more nuanced. All the same im more anti reddit than ok with good versions of it. Heck I block the crazy linkedin communities and such because I don’t want to see X or linkedin or facebook for that matter. slashdot would be fine with me but that is generally all text.
