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.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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One of today's "lucky 10,000" as it were.
Relavemt XKCD comic
Yep. I actually don’t mind it as long as it’s not constant. It’s nice to see things again.
Voat (something I used before I realized it was just a racism thing (I know, I know, it's very obvious in retrospect)) would point you at an existing post if you posted the same link.
The execution was bad, and I have some issues with the concept, but it did make me think maybe there is a solution to that particular problem.
In a different universe, most social medias use OCR and image recognition technology to handle this instantly and easily. This meant a huge reduction in bandwidth and storage issues on the great WWW which eventually lead to world peace.
This universe seems to be... Behind where it's supposed to be?
The most Reddit thing is complaining about reposts.
Just block people out instances that repost a lot
Complaining about complaining about reposts has already been posted before.
Yeah, this comment looks like a repost.
And then there are posts complaining about the posts
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.
I've blocked a few people like that, anything more than two is just taking the piss.
I upvote the first and downvote all subsequent ones.
I stole this from another user fair and square!
I'm fine with stealing as long as you use crosspost rather than posting it again as a new post.
Ironic because this is the second time I've seen this image posted
It'd be three if you visit my other repost!
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
Drown them out with oc!
And every other post is politics!
This place was originally built as a haven for godless commies
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.
now that it’s over
Oh, man. Where is that "living under a rock" video when I need it?
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.
In short, the US is in the process of being turned into a full-on oligarchy or a dictatorship. There will be quite a bit of conversation about politics for the foreseeable future.
Trump is also actively antagonizing almost all of the rest of the world. It's not a US-only subject anymore.
Plus conversation about the inevitable calamities.
Just remember, all. There’s nothing to fear but fear itself. And the horrors.
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.
In the biological sciences world, this is known as "you are what you eat". My impression is that this place has always kinda been the most popular alternative destination for redditors (exes or otherwise).
Be the change you want to see
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.
When you see an account that repost too much common shit just block them.
Life is too short to....YAWN
This but unironically! You wouldn't download a car, you wouldn't repost a meme. Property is ~~theft~~ good, actually.
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.
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
I'll give you the old reddit answer to your old reddit problem
Just downdoot and move on.
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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
What's new?
Anyways my top voted all time post was an OC meme about reposts.
Make sure to filter only by your subscribed communities.
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