What is the community’s stance on cross-posting from other sites? Either via direct link or screenshot/recording?

For example, it might be bad taste to create posts which are just links to Reddit threads. At the same time, discouraging posts which are just links to YouTube videos seems a little silly. Of course, you can come up with many grey-areas between these two examples.

Personally, I don’t want to follow links to Reddit because that place is a disaster. That being said, funny things are posted to that site and I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t laugh at a screenshot of such a thing posted here.

  • Disa@burggit.moeMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I personally think links to something like Reddit make no sense, since one of the reasons for being on a site like Burggit or many other lemmy instances is to try and separate ties from that website. I also feel linking to a reddit post directly discourages posting and discussing things here.

    Screenshots or even images from reddit I don’t think matter as much, just like how a link to a YouTube video wouldn’t matter that much as that doesn’t actively discourage discussion. Hope this makes sense, my thoughts tend to be rather scattered.