Why would it be a bad thing to “steal” a meme from another platform? For one thing that’s literally the whole point of memes, to be shared around. I’d wager well over half the memes on reddit were “stolen” from some other platform

For another, taking content from reddit and posting it here just ensures that Lemmy has plenty of content to interact with. There are relatively few “original” meme creators compared to the amount of people willing to repost them, and even those are relatively few compared to the people who just want to look at them. The people who can be bothered to make their own memes usually care a lot more about the imaginary internet points involved, and so are naturally going to gravitate to platforms that have more users (which is to say, not lemmy).

I’m all for reposting memes or askreddit threads, etc to lemmy. Good content is good content!