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.

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          Yes, sure. But none of the major communies have that hint in their description. Meaning this practice is not common in most of the major communities. For example: I have not seen [OC] on any post in /memes.

          Edit: It’s common in /pics. But that is a given.

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            • “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 …
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              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.

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