I occasionally come across content in my feed that I think would be of interest to one of the small communities that I participate in. Think photo or article, not something personal. Is it appropriate for me to crosspost the content? Without asking the OP? What about if I ask but the OP never responds?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

  • Dr. Wesker
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    1 year ago

    Just crosspost it. The points don’t matter here. The only time I’d hesitate and ask is if it was very clearly OC.

    • platysalty
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      61 year ago

      I think even if it’s OC, it’s fine if you very clearly credit it.

      No creative is gonna get angry at someone going “hey check out this cool content I found by this person”

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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      51 year ago

      Linking between instances is kinda weird right now, apparently. There’s no good way to link to a specific post in a way that’s accessible for users across instances.

            • JackbyDev
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              No, it’s not a federation issue. What we need is some syntax to link to posts/comments in an instance agnostic way. When you click something like [email protected] your UI will take you to your instance’s version of it. Clicking a URL will take you to that URL always. As expected, post A in community X hosted on instance blah will have a different URL than post A in community X viewed from instance foo. You can share a URL to the actual post on its actual home instance or you could share a URL to your instance’s view of the post. That second one is useful to you and members of your instance but not members from any other instance.

              Short of your UI intercepting and redirecting URLs (a very bad thing to do in my opinion, links should go where they say they go without interference) this cannot be solved with URLs. That’s why we need some way to specify something like ! community@instance/post.

              A big caveat is that I mean HTTP URLs. If there was a custom URL scheme like lemmy: then the rules can be different.

  • @CeruleanRuin
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    Post whatever you want wherever you want, but credit the source. This is important not just for courtesy, but for archival purposes. It leaves a trail that makes it easier for others to find the original if they want to see other work by the creator or information about the subject.

    If it’s just a meme, it’s probably not going to matter much, but for original artwork or articles, the author should always be credited when possible, and links make that easier for everyone.

  • HSL
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    1 year ago

    This is technically about using Lemmy so breaks rule #3. However, it’s a good question and I haven’t seen it lately, so putting away the mod hammer.

  • @j4k3
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    111 year ago

    I would take it as a complement if it is something I posted and it is a person just adding to a relevant community. Just don’t spam post it to several communities at once or within a short time frame.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    News article, discussion, opinion…all fine. I would not crosspost Cosplay or art work. Obv, nudes are a no-go.