I saw it up, and I dropped a comment. And it was gone about 30 seconds later.

I hope it's the former, and not the latter, but there's been much drama recently, so hard to say.

Spiteful reposting

spiteful reposting must be the worse thing you can make out of spite 😆

is it possible to repost from an instance your instance is defederated with? i am not sure, but it makes sense to me that it would be impossible, so someone just found workaround to copy the content.

Actual crossposts are cool, though. Botting communities is artificial and lame.

People noticed that all posts to TenForward were being lifted in full (including anything the poster wrote in the post body) to the dbzero risa community. Every post is showing up after an hour or two.

The gumgum account that is doing it is one of a handful of accounts that are botting various communities in the same way. The accounts are not labeled as bots, and they are not using the crosspost function, which makes it seem like the intent is to artificially create activity in these communities without transparency to the users that these posts are coming from elsewhere on Lemmy.

I've received messages from posts I've made (not on tenforward) where the person realized they were replying to questions by "me" that were just reposted by the bot. It's pretty lame.

Well it’s simple, I posted memes I saw here.

I could do what op does and take them from Reddit I suppose? All I care about is getting content off .world and promoting smaller communities.

I make 99% OC and appreciate seeing my content actually reaching others enough to consider being reposted. No watermarks, just creativity and love of Trek along with its diverse community. The credit isn't the point, for me at least.

Ultimately, this. Memes are a bit of Internet culture intended to enter the collective consciousness. Unlike comics or artwork, they shouldn't need credit or attribution, just a natural spread as people discover and share with their friends or communities.