I have the impression that the lion’s share of all posts on Lemmy are reposts or screenshots from other platforms. I don’t mean links to other sites of course, after all Lemmy is a Reddit clone and thus a link aggregator. I just think that Lemmy can’t survive if there is no way to make people aware that a particular post is OC to a fediverse-Plattform. I suspect that the Lemmy community would appreciate the effort that went into creating OC that wasn’t posted anywhere else - there’s just no way to tag Lemmy OC.
It’s just text you can put in the title.
Yes, sure. But none of the major communies have that hint in their description. Meaning this practice is not common in most of the major communities. For example: I have not seen [OC] on any post in /memes.
Edit: It’s common in /pics. But that is a given.
Minor addition: Slapping an [OC] into the title can also come across as pretentious so some people don’t want to use that “tag”, especially if it were something super extra special like a badge. For everyone else, just putting those two letters into the title shouldn’t be hard.
Exactly, so why should I go to the trouble of making OC exclusive to Lemmy? Isn’t that what the Community wants?