Comment on Lemmy instances that are focused on mirroring Reddit content?
Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 8 months agoMemes are meant to be shared, and it’s a great way to grow small communities. Karma whoring is not that big here since reputation points are not shown (at least in the webUI). So a person will post a few memes and could start a conversation, something a bot can’t do.
vintprox@kbin.melroy.org 8 months ago
Whether the meme is meant to be shared in some other context or not, I think, is the decision that should be based on the sum of copyright liberation and how generalistic contents are. Today, I can't bear a thought of reposting some stranger's niche meme on social media without attaching a source/creator, because I'm most likely making one more point where engagement with the same meme ends - and reposting full works doesn't qualify as commentary/criticism/research, so it's not a fair use, to begin with.
That's why we are correct of assuming the worst from the bots: programming any fair use considerations is left to gather dust, as it's ultimately left for human to decide such things.