I occasionally come across content in my feed that I think would be of interest to one of the small communities that I participate in. Think photo or article, not something personal. Is it appropriate for me to crosspost the content? Without asking the OP? What about if I ask but the OP never responds?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    Just crosspost it. The points don’t matter here. The only time I’d hesitate and ask is if it was very clearly OC.

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      11 months ago

      I think even if it’s OC, it’s fine if you very clearly credit it.

      No creative is gonna get angry at someone going “hey check out this cool content I found by this person”

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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      11 months ago

      Linking between instances is kinda weird right now, apparently. There’s no good way to link to a specific post in a way that’s accessible for users across instances.

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        11 months ago

        I would be linking to the thread. Does the cross-post button not work as expected?

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            11 months ago

            According to how the Fediverse works, you should be able to. Federation issue?

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              11 months ago

              No, it’s not a federation issue. What we need is some syntax to link to posts/comments in an instance agnostic way. When you click something like !chat@beehaw.org your UI will take you to your instance’s version of it. Clicking a URL will take you to that URL always. As expected, post A in community X hosted on instance blah will have a different URL than post A in community X viewed from instance foo. You can share a URL to the actual post on its actual home instance or you could share a URL to your instance’s view of the post. That second one is useful to you and members of your instance but not members from any other instance.

              Short of your UI intercepting and redirecting URLs (a very bad thing to do in my opinion, links should go where they say they go without interference) this cannot be solved with URLs. That’s why we need some way to specify something like ! community@instance/post.

              A big caveat is that I mean HTTP URLs. If there was a custom URL scheme like lemmy: then the rules can be different.

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    11 months ago

    This is technically about using Lemmy so breaks rule #3. However, it’s a good question and I haven’t seen it lately, so putting away the mod hammer.

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    Post whatever you want wherever you want, but credit the source. This is important not just for courtesy, but for archival purposes. It leaves a trail that makes it easier for others to find the original if they want to see other work by the creator or information about the subject.

    If it’s just a meme, it’s probably not going to matter much, but for original artwork or articles, the author should always be credited when possible, and links make that easier for everyone.

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    11 months ago

    I would take it as a complement if it is something I posted and it is a person just adding to a relevant community. Just don’t spam post it to several communities at once or within a short time frame.

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    When you post something online, it’s generally assumed that crossposting might happen (unless it’s posted on a site that specifically doesn’t allow crossposting). I would think that if the OP really didn’t want you to crosspost, they’d explicitly say so in their post. If they don’t, it’s on them, not you.

    Generally, I’d say crossposting is fine - but be sure to include attribution if it’s a creative work.

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    11 months ago

    News article, discussion, opinion…all fine. I would not crosspost Cosplay or art work. Obv, nudes are a no-go.