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Piefed Meme Search (piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago by ozoned@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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Just now I used the classic "OH NO! Anyway" meme from Jeremy Clarkson. How many folks might have uploaded that before?

What if Piefed housed, or linked to some kind of service, that had a meme search.

This resolves 2 issues.

  1. Interactivity is more fun and easier for users.
  2. You can deduplicate storage. You'll no longer have 500 people uploading the same "OH NO! Anyway..." memes. This would also allow custom meme from other instances that could then be shared and grow the pool of built in memes, potentially deduping across all Piefed instances.
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[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I really would love to encourage people to react with their own original thoughts, not recycle tired old images over and over.

File deduplication can be handled at the OS level, using btrfs or a S3 server that does it.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Totally understood Sir. Thank you for all you do. :-)

[–] puz@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does file reduplication work when its not an exact copy of an image though?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

no :(