• go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’d say that the vast majority of content shared on Lemmy originates from elsewhere, and rarely ever from the source. Generally, it tends to follow a path like Facebook -> Reddit -> Instagram -> Reddit -> Facebook then finally to Lemmy all while being compressed and often shared by screenshots along the way. It’s a big reason why image quality is always awful, even though it really takes mere seconds to reverse image search and find the original or at the very least a decent quality copy.

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      4 hours ago

      You imply Facebook has original content. Everyone knows only tumblr and 4chan are capable of original thought

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        3 hours ago

        I’ve traced quite a few posts to Facebook in my searches for the original copy, since people rarely do that themselves. But that was just an example, not a hard rule.

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    17 hours ago

    The best part, though, is that you don’t have to be here and you’re subjecting yourself to lazy, dull content!

    You also don’t want the internet to think to hard, or you end up with the most cursed stuff imaginable