only one message for reposters: If you didn't make it, don't post your lazy regurgitated trash.

I fail to see how sharing memes is a bad thing. Lemmy is a great community, its leagues better than what Reddit was, even in its heyday, and certainly better than the shit-buffet it has become.
While OC is great, it's really tough to make, especially at the frequency needed to provide new content and keep people interested. Further, 90% (or something) of people on here lurk, with the remaining 10% split between commentators and posters.
Don't like it? Vote with your feet.
- hi, yes, piece of shit here
  where do I get more of them cute doggy memes with the subtle threats in those stylistic fonts
  Also, like what breed of dog is that
  
  !opossums@lemmy.world
  
  I feel like you're probably joking but that's a possum, not a doggo.
  I was gonna make a joke about not trying to pet one of those or you might get rabies, but it actually seems that they have natural resistance to rabies and are generally pretty chill animals. TIL.
  https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/what-do-about-opossums
- If reposting memes, then why not do a quick reverse image search and grab a better version, as well? It seriously only takes mere seconds most of the time.
  Tineye works great, but there's also Google reverse image search when that doesn't provide the results you hope for.
  Not only does this generally improve the experience for everyone, but it also makes the platform much more appealing to outsiders that care about quality and will drive more quality users to Lemmy. On top of quality, but also things like links to and information about the creators, which is especially important for things like comics because the more people that know where to find the creators the more those creators can keep making their art.
  Obviously, I do my best to contribute to this, but the more people that join in the better.
  
  But the jpeg artifacts make it funnier!

eh Im just happy yall are here

I see we got reddit's whining about reposts.

Perfect post 5/7 score! The narwalls bacon at midnight! Did your mom break both your arms?
- Don’t forget Natalie Portman covered in hot grits along with Natalie Dormer and a clone of the former.
  
  Isn't Natalie Portman and grits originally from Slashdot?
  
  I know the rest of them, but not that one.
- :(
- sigh unzips
- Something something jolly ranchers

There's a simple reason why reposts will always happen, never stop: different people have seen different things. Your reposts are other people's never-seen-before content.
- insert xkcd 10,000 people obligatory everything is a repost
  
  To be fair, I purposely didn't do a deep dive on xkcd so that whenever I did see a related post in the comments, it was almost always fresh to me. I figured this was true of a lot of people online.
- If you repost something there is a good percentage of people who have never seen it. If you create it that percentage is 100%

Yeah, switching from reddit to lemmy gives a "old internet" wibe: actual people, most of them technically inclined. But with more adoption, these people get diluted by all other kinds of folks.
Same happened with cypto scene. It started with cythography entusiasts, but now it is mostly tech bros.
- It's easy to avoid redditization: just stay away from the "general interest" instances because reddit or facebook will always do general interest better than any platform run by volunteers w almost no budget.
  
  "Just stay away* will only bring it in faster. You need resistance
  It's like when Mom says "just ignore the bullies" a strategy that bullies thrive on because they can bully and know you'll walk away

You might be seeing posts from the 196 community, which recently split up (personally, I had the old ones blocked and then due to it splitting, the new 196 community showed up in my feed).
The 196 community is very much about quantity-over-quality, when it comes to posts, and as such reposts do happen often, too.
No shade on that, but it's also not for everyone, so yeah, you might want to just block those communities.
- 196 wouldn't be as bad if the user base across all communities were higher. But yeah, I've blocked that community. It's a nice community but it adds too much noise.

Bitching about reposts is of course very original

I am a serial crossposter. And I'll keep crossposting whether you like it or not. You will not see OC from me, my friend.
- Crossposts Form reddit? I though about building a bot that posts the top 3 posts every day to the correspinding lemmy instance, just to get more posts here.
  I Mike lemmy for its very technical posts but sometimes i would like some more shitposts here :D
  
  Not even... I crosspost from one Lemmy community to another.

How to about that bot that reposts r/buildapc? What even is the point of reposting people's questions if they they're on another platform and won't see the it?
- I have blocked most bots that regurgitate Reddit content, you should try it because it's make for a more genuine experience when browsing All.
- You mean that feddit or whatever instance? I see the point as just sharing content. Sad no one comments lol
  
  lemmit.online? I think it was the first instance I blocked that hadn't been defederated by my admins.

I rather have a repost instead of all these motherfuckers only posting a link to some external website which throws a 404 error.

no_nothing demands only original trash for cm002 to regurgitate

Then down vote it? Isn't that the point of that button? I'm assuming a big problem with Reddit was they wanted controversial posts seen which took away from the power of down voting but hopefully Lemmy doesn't? I don't actually know though
- Ahhh, the rallying cry of "just downvote it". I'd insert the "this your first time?" gif here if I could. Leaving a community to self moderate invariably turns into a popularity contest, and then when one group eventually takes over, an echo chamber usually filled with the same regurgitated spam. "If you don't like it just downvote it" or it's reverse "well it has a lot of upvotes, so someone must like it"(welcome to why we have so many bots today....) always ends up catering to the terminally online at the detriment of the average person. People far too often will speak with absolute confidence about things they have never even experienced, but because it's well formatted, it's sent to the top. The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect describes this in part.
  
  This site is maybe the worst echo chamber I've ever experienced it's just one that suites my opinions. Hell even if I agree with the echo chamber but I'm the wrong way it gets rejected aggressively. If you think it's bots then that seems like a more legitimate complaint but if it's a repost getting enough upvotes and is not weighted for controversy then it's actually the terminally online people that know every post suffering with their obsession and not the community at large. I completely disagree with that theory

I accept reposts are a part of the fediverse because every instance will have the same damned memes and since I'm federated with quite a few of them, I'm just gonna have to deal with it. Just my take.
- I feel like apps could probably aggregate posts with the same links somehow and allow users to flip between comment threads; but I have no idea how to make that work on the backend.
  
  I'm not much of a dev at all but Id o use AI to help me build app infrastructure. If nothing else, it teaches you how python and react work.

Kinda like the guy that was posting daily screenshots of his gaming sessions that spawned like, three copycats this past summer?
- I like all of it.

Maybe this already exists, but what about a feature which allows tagging a post as a link to a previous/original post, which can be used by clients to filter out reposts if desired.

That's literally the meaning of meme or memetic; ideas are passed on like a virus. I know it's annoying to repost memes but that is the circle of memes xD