So you hate original content lemmyers put effort into (discussion posts, memes, photos) and praise the laziest form of content (reposting articles someone on another platform made)? Do you want lemmy to become a parasitic platform depending on content from elsewhere to sustain itself?

[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

discussion posts, memes, photos

These are not remotely equal. Low-quality, mindless meme content rots your brain. You should stop consuming it and start downvoting it.

Calling articles "lazy content" is extremely unintelligent. I'm disgusted that you should say that.

The "original content" you refer to is often screenshots of social media posts and reposted memes.

Do you want lemmy to become a parasitic platform depending on content from elsewhere to sustain itself?

This is such a bizarre thing to say. Reddit and Lemmy are link/news aggregators. Their whole benefit is being a single site where people can share & discuss news, instead of having to visit a dozen different websites every day. Reddit started to promote low-quality meme content, which massively degraded the quality of the platform. It's extremely disappointing to see people on Lemmy promoting it as well.

[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Calling articles "lazy content" is extremely unintelligent. I'm disgusted that you should say that.

Reposts, not articles themselves. Reposting someone else's writings from the web as a link is objectively low-effort work that could be handled by a dozen-line script.

Reddit and Lemmy are link/news aggregators.

Maybe they started as such, but now it's a small part of their scope. I don't perceive them as such, rather as a general-purpose forum. I go to Lemmy/Reddit to ask a question (e.g. how to repair a thing), voice an opinion, start a debate, talk about stuff, read comics, etc. I don't recall following a single community that is about link aggregation.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

No no no you don't get it. Lemmy should be what THEY want it to be, not what everyone on Lemmy collectively makes it. Anything otherwise is wrong simply because one bloke online is very certain it rots your brain.

QED

[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Reposts, not articles themselves. Reposting someone else’s writings from the web as a link is objectively low-effort work that could be handled by a dozen-line script.

I don't know what you're referring to. Copy-pasting content instead of linking directly to the source is frowned on for numerous reasons.

a general-purpose forum. I go to Lemmy/Reddit to ask a question (e.g. how to repair a thing), voice an opinion, start a debate, talk about stuff, read comics, etc.

Sure, that's a secondary and perfectly valid use. The OP of this thread posted an image promoting memes. That is what I criticized.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Secondary use according to whom? Who made you the arbiter of Lemmy's 'one true purpose?'

[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I don't know what you're referring to. Copy-pasting content instead of linking directly to the source is frowned on for numerous reasons.

Pasting a link is even easier than pasting text.

Sure, that's a secondary and perfectly valid use. The OP of this thread posted an image promoting memes. That is what I criticized.

So, no more memes on /c/memes@lemmy.world?