There are old things that are new to some people. You can watch reruns on TV, rewatch movies you've seen before and listen to music that's 60 years old.
At this point the original is buried far enough that the joke probably isn't very obvious anymore, but someone posted this unironically a couple days ago, so I turned around and reposted it to two additional communities just to be on-the-nose about this type of whining.
Content is content - 99% of people don't care if it's been posted before
At this point the original is buried far enough that the joke probably isn’t very obvious anymore, but someone posted this unironically a couple days ago, so I turned around and reposted it to two additional communities just to be on-the-nose about this type of whining.
Content is content - 99% of people don’t care if it’s been posted before
At this point the original is buried far enough that the joke probably isn't very obvious anymore, but someone posted this unironically a couple days ago, so I turned around and reposted it to two additional communities just to be on-the-nose about this type of whining.
Content is content - 99% of people don't care if it's been posted before
Reposting popular material isn't a reddit thing, it's a human thing.
There will always be someone who just discovered that whatever from a couple years ago and likes it enough to post it. The larger the user base, the more common this becomes.
Voat (something I used before I realized it was just a racism thing (I know, I know, it's very obvious in retrospect)) would point you at an existing post if you posted the same link.
The execution was bad, and I have some issues with the concept, but it did make me think maybe there is a solution to that particular problem.
When you really kinda like the Lemmy fediverse thing, but people post their memes to multiple communities without using crospost so you keep seeing the same thing over and over.
I think it's more common when communities are newly created, as people want to populate the community with some content to kickstart activity and interest.
So hopefully it'll just even out eventually, when communities become more self-sustaining and active.
One of the fundamental issues is that it's just people.
People are going to talk about things like people do, and just because it ends up looking like Reddit or whatever doesn't mean that this is a bad thing.
It just means that format is one of the ways that people tend to communicate.
I think that politics being overbearing is hopefully just a trait of the election in the US, now that it's over hopefully the US politics fanatics can move on to bigger and better things. Fingers Crossed.
In the biological sciences world, this is known as "you are what you eat". My impression is that this place has always kinda been the most popular alternative destination for redditors (exes or otherwise).