I don't take this post sincerely - not after your accusatory thread in the other post.
You're not suddenly worried about image quality. This is the same campaign to get people to post less on Lemmy, just wearing a different costume. Nitpick the resolution, question the poster, demand reductions - whatever makes sharing here feel like a fight.
There are Reddit agents on Lemmy whose whole play is keeping content out of here. Less content, fewer users, everyone crawls back to Reddit. That's the only thing your posts actually accomplish.
Me, I want the opposite: all of Reddit's content, and more in-house. Every meme I post here is one Reddit doesn't get to keep. Keep attacking people for sharing and it's pretty obvious whose side you're on.
@CyberEgg, a few assumptions in your reply are wrong.
"One should be able to explain one's postings" - no. I'm not a community organizer and I don't owe anyone a response on demand. I'm a person sharing memes I find worth sharing, to the degree I have time. I have a family and a life outside here. Not answering a comment is not a failure of duty; it means I didn't get to it. Every comment does not deserve a reply, and every meme does not deserve a lecture attached.
"It looks like the personal platform of an individual" - to you. Not to everyone. This community has ~2,800 subscribers and ~650 daily active users. People engage with the content the same way no matter who posts it. You don't speak for the community, and the data doesn't back "this turns everyone away."
"What's the context of the numbers?" - the last 100 posts here came from 15 authors on a ~2,800-subscriber community. r/HistoryMemes has millions of members and produced those 100 posts from 78 authors at ~40–50 posts/day. A community this size does not generate that volume on its own. Someone has to seed the feed, or it's empty.
Quantify "better." You're framing the choice as: one active poster with a live feed, or almost no posts with a dead feed. Today this community gets ~14 posts/day; 12 come from me. Remove my posts and it gets ~2/day. A dead feed is exactly what drives the remaining people back to reddit. Unless you can show that removing my posts increases subscribers or engagement, you are asking for the measurably worse outcome.
And "if you don't want to be on reddit, don't be there" doesn't land - I post here, on the fediverse. That's the point. What I find telling is that the loudest demand is for less content on a small federated community. I'm not calling you a reddit agent. But if someone wanted to quiet the fediverse and push people back to reddit, demanding an active poster slow down is exactly how they'd do it.
im confident people that are against content sharing from reddit - are reddit shills. they gotta have some team there with a goal of making alternatives like lemmy less appealing.
reddit banned lemmy subreddit after all - they are afraid
When almost every post in a community is posted by the same user, that is not a good sign.
so post more. I agree with you on that lemmy needs more users.
thats why im here personally - I dont want to be using reddit, but its evident that reddit users are not jumping over to lemmy - in part due to lack of content.
I reject the idea that every meme needs a personal explanation, a lesson, or a long comment thread attached to it. Memes are also casual content. People should be allowed to see something funny, vote, comment if they want, and move on.
The practical issue is activity. In the latest 24-hour window, this community had 14 posts; I supplied 12 of them. r/HistoryMemes had roughly 40 posts in the same window. Without people consistently sharing material here, this community becomes an almost-empty alternative while people stay on Reddit because that is where the feed is active.
Calling all frequent sharing “indiscriminate dumping” does not build a community. It reduces the content that gives people a reason to check in. If there is a concrete problem with a post, say what it is. If there is a proposed community-wide posting standard, state it clearly and apply it to everyone. But demanding less content, less sharing, and an explanation for every meme is not a serious growth strategy.
This reads less like a plan to improve the community and more like an attempt to make Lemmy’s feed quieter. I do not think that is a good outcome.
I think that's a perfectly valid opinion, and you're entitled to it.
I just have a different view. A lot of people try Lemmy, find very little content in the communities they're interested in, and end up going back to Reddit. To me, that's a much bigger problem than reposting content.
I'd rather see relevant content shared here - even if it originally came from Reddit - than see people leave the Fediverse altogether. As Lemmy grows, communities can produce more original content naturally. But getting to that critical mass is difficult if new users arrive and find empty feeds.
There's also a difference between indiscriminately dumping everything and selectively sharing content that's likely to interest the community. I don't think those are the same thing.
answer the question - why is this not banned from reddit then?
These posts are still up on Reddit, where thousands of people have seen it. Clearly not everyone interprets it the same way. Reddit would have definitely banned it would it be racist
probably helping out austria being one, and then attacking poor ukrainian shmucks in a kponotop wagenburg is another
happy?
I don't take this post sincerely - not after your accusatory thread in the other post.
You're not suddenly worried about image quality. This is the same campaign to get people to post less on Lemmy, just wearing a different costume. Nitpick the resolution, question the poster, demand reductions - whatever makes sharing here feel like a fight.
There are Reddit agents on Lemmy whose whole play is keeping content out of here. Less content, fewer users, everyone crawls back to Reddit. That's the only thing your posts actually accomplish.
Me, I want the opposite: all of Reddit's content, and more in-house. Every meme I post here is one Reddit doesn't get to keep. Keep attacking people for sharing and it's pretty obvious whose side you're on.
@CyberEgg, a few assumptions in your reply are wrong.
"One should be able to explain one's postings" - no. I'm not a community organizer and I don't owe anyone a response on demand. I'm a person sharing memes I find worth sharing, to the degree I have time. I have a family and a life outside here. Not answering a comment is not a failure of duty; it means I didn't get to it. Every comment does not deserve a reply, and every meme does not deserve a lecture attached.
"It looks like the personal platform of an individual" - to you. Not to everyone. This community has ~2,800 subscribers and ~650 daily active users. People engage with the content the same way no matter who posts it. You don't speak for the community, and the data doesn't back "this turns everyone away."
"What's the context of the numbers?" - the last 100 posts here came from 15 authors on a ~2,800-subscriber community. r/HistoryMemes has millions of members and produced those 100 posts from 78 authors at ~40–50 posts/day. A community this size does not generate that volume on its own. Someone has to seed the feed, or it's empty.
Quantify "better." You're framing the choice as: one active poster with a live feed, or almost no posts with a dead feed. Today this community gets ~14 posts/day; 12 come from me. Remove my posts and it gets ~2/day. A dead feed is exactly what drives the remaining people back to reddit. Unless you can show that removing my posts increases subscribers or engagement, you are asking for the measurably worse outcome.
And "if you don't want to be on reddit, don't be there" doesn't land - I post here, on the fediverse. That's the point. What I find telling is that the loudest demand is for less content on a small federated community. I'm not calling you a reddit agent. But if someone wanted to quiet the fediverse and push people back to reddit, demanding an active poster slow down is exactly how they'd do it.
Global = world - US
im confident people that are against content sharing from reddit - are reddit shills. they gotta have some team there with a goal of making alternatives like lemmy less appealing.
reddit banned lemmy subreddit after all - they are afraid
so post more. I agree with you on that lemmy needs more users. thats why im here personally - I dont want to be using reddit, but its evident that reddit users are not jumping over to lemmy - in part due to lack of content.
I reject the idea that every meme needs a personal explanation, a lesson, or a long comment thread attached to it. Memes are also casual content. People should be allowed to see something funny, vote, comment if they want, and move on.
The practical issue is activity. In the latest 24-hour window, this community had 14 posts; I supplied 12 of them.
r/HistoryMemeshad roughly 40 posts in the same window. Without people consistently sharing material here, this community becomes an almost-empty alternative while people stay on Reddit because that is where the feed is active.Calling all frequent sharing “indiscriminate dumping” does not build a community. It reduces the content that gives people a reason to check in. If there is a concrete problem with a post, say what it is. If there is a proposed community-wide posting standard, state it clearly and apply it to everyone. But demanding less content, less sharing, and an explanation for every meme is not a serious growth strategy.
This reads less like a plan to improve the community and more like an attempt to make Lemmy’s feed quieter. I do not think that is a good outcome.
I think that's a perfectly valid opinion, and you're entitled to it.
I just have a different view. A lot of people try Lemmy, find very little content in the communities they're interested in, and end up going back to Reddit. To me, that's a much bigger problem than reposting content.
I'd rather see relevant content shared here - even if it originally came from Reddit - than see people leave the Fediverse altogether. As Lemmy grows, communities can produce more original content naturally. But getting to that critical mass is difficult if new users arrive and find empty feeds.
There's also a difference between indiscriminately dumping everything and selectively sharing content that's likely to interest the community. I don't think those are the same thing.
what im sure you mean - thank you Grumpy, thank you so much for posting shit
updated. I hope that makes your day friend
its shit posting bro. chill
problem is you are not creating content. create content.
That's what reddit wants you to think in order to keep lemmy without content
Ok lol. I'm just reposting, I'm not og censorer ofc
Wow. That's pretty messed up.
We should ban Amazon and Walmart reselling Chinese as well as Chinese cars
im just reposting from reddit. is tihs shitposting? or im offended by everything commnity?
god dang it. ai and lies?
whatever. have no content if you like. not gonna waste my time
whatever. have no content if you like. not gonna waste my time
answer the question - why is this not banned from reddit then?
These posts are still up on Reddit, where thousands of people have seen it. Clearly not everyone interprets it the same way. Reddit would have definitely banned it would it be racist