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I have seriously no idea what you even mean by that. Care to elaborate why a site that managed to exist without an OC tag for nearly half a decade is suddenly doomed if there's no extra OC tag now? Or why good content can not be appreciated if it doesn't have the right tags?
Well, maybe lemmy is just not for me.
Edit:
I expect a social media site to produce original content via its community. Even on a link aggregator style site, there should be more than just expressing an opinion - I can and should do that to greater effect on the site that provided the content in the fist place. After all, it's about a discussion, not about seeing my particular opinion validated by many like-minded people. So I'm of the opinion that Lemmy needs original content. If that can't be encouraged even at a basic UI level, I have little hope that lemmy will ever produce genuine content, because there's no point in going to the trouble if you can just post some link or screenshot to greater effect instead, which you just copy and paste from another post on another platform. And that's where the problem lies for me: I don't think Lemmy has enough relevance just by commenting on bot posts. That's why I'm asking for possible solutions, but nobody seems to want to hear that here. So my quick answer was: "Well, maybe lemmy is just not for me." Simply because I thought that meaningful, objective dialog and genuine content would be possible here. After about 8 months on this platform, I can't generally confirm that. This post with a rather neutral question confirms my negative impression - only downvotes. You can perhaps imagine that this didn't go as I would have hoped. Maybe it was the word "flag" that did not go well with the folks here, but that is basically what i meant: make OC content more prominent because it takes way more effort then your standard link or copy/paste meme. Please just give at least some credit to real the content - that would be a very welcomed change from your average social site.