It really isn’t. Self promotion is pretty terrible for a link aggregation site. You used to be limited in the ratio of what you could post between yours and other content. Then The Other Site decided it was social media. Now you want here to be social media too. No thanks 👍
No, it isn’t. Because, crucially, you’re not supposed to care who the other people are. By your definition if ‘social media’, my Geocities guest book was social media.
Nobody cares WHO posts the thing. The important part is that people post.
Link aggregation sites need links to aggregate and those links need to be posted by SOMEONE.
People who make the things being linked tend to be more likely to post the thing in the link.
I have no idea how this is controversial. Why is posting your own memes/comics worse than posting someone else’s content?
If it doesn’t matter who posts it then there’s literally no difference here except that more content is posted to Lemmy when the comic authors themselves are on the platform.
I have no idea how this is controversial. Why is posting your own memes/comics worse than posting someone else’s content?
You can see exactly why in this very comment chain, people talking about organising followers to boost things etc
The point of a link aggregator is not to act as veiled marketing for social media accounts or cosplays. Posting your own shit is 9 times out of 10 just promotional crap. Like this. Lemmy doesn’t need content that exists primarily to drive traffic elsewhere, or shit content for the sake of shit content.
It really isn’t. Self promotion is pretty terrible for a link aggregation site. You used to be limited in the ratio of what you could post between yours and other content. Then The Other Site decided it was social media. Now you want here to be social media too. No thanks 👍
It’s got social (comments) And it’s got media (some posts)
Therefore it is… idk I don’t feel like finishing the thought tbh
No, it isn’t. Because, crucially, you’re not supposed to care who the other people are. By your definition if ‘social media’, my Geocities guest book was social media.
Nobody cares WHO posts the thing. The important part is that people post.
Link aggregation sites need links to aggregate and those links need to be posted by SOMEONE.
People who make the things being linked tend to be more likely to post the thing in the link.
I have no idea how this is controversial. Why is posting your own memes/comics worse than posting someone else’s content?
If it doesn’t matter who posts it then there’s literally no difference here except that more content is posted to Lemmy when the comic authors themselves are on the platform.
You can see exactly why in this very comment chain, people talking about organising followers to boost things etc
The point of a link aggregator is not to act as veiled marketing for social media accounts or cosplays. Posting your own shit is 9 times out of 10 just promotional crap. Like this. Lemmy doesn’t need content that exists primarily to drive traffic elsewhere, or shit content for the sake of shit content.
It could certainly do without your shit contributions.