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.

    • DandomRude@lemmy.worldOP
      14·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • cerement@slrpnk.net
        101·
        11 months ago
        • “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 …
        • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          Minor addition: Slapping an [OC] into the title can also come across as pretentious so some people don’t want to use that “tag”, especially if it were something super extra special like a badge. For everyone else, just putting those two letters into the title shouldn’t be hard.

        • DandomRude@lemmy.worldOP
          15·
          11 months ago

          Exactly, so why should I go to the trouble of making OC exclusive to Lemmy? Isn’t that what the Community wants?