OC stands for "original content" and the feature is a hold-over from how mastodon does things. the idea being that you mark it if you yourself made it and are not reposting it.
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I see, so Twitter/Mastodon is made of so much repost material that now the original content is supposed to be marked as such.
no, the people who started mastodon just have a lot of "tumblr" culture. they also have "trigger warning" options, self-censor/blurred pic options, etc. Just a different culture. A lot of kbin users I'm guessing are ex-redditors where we don't really do that sorta stuff lol.
All of those things are plenty common on Reddit as well.
The term is much older than Mastadon, my dude. Kinda ironic you thought it was created originally there!
It's used on Reddit too, I don't think it has anything to do with mastodon.
I don't recall reddit having an explicit OC feature, even though "OC" is indeed a term that's used a lot there.
Depends on the sub. For example, in some art subs it's mandatory to indicate either [OC] or [place where you took it from], for example [ArtStation].
Yeah but that's just someone manually writing [OC] lol. some subreddits had link flair to mark posts as OC though. Here on kbin we have "link flair" as "badges". but also an explicit "OC" marker feature. Having that OC marker feature is something from mastodon.
This is semantics...people use a convention of [original content] on reddit, whether it's an official implementation or not. It's like before Twitter got official retweets. I didn't realize there was a flair/badge for this on kbin until just now, but it feels like an extension of that manual function. In spirit, it exists on reddit.
Mastodon has neither a formal feature for nor a culture of labelling things as "OC", though. This appears to be derived from Reddit culture, if not Reddit features.
Many subs had OC tags or even rules, depends a bit on the type of sub. Otherwise people would just add [OC] to their titles.