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.

  • @[email protected]
    9•10 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 🐺
      2•10 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.

    • @DandomRudeOP
      -5•10 months ago

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