What's "OC"?

I keep saying posts marked as "OC" but I have no idea what that means. Does anyone know?

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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.
- I see, so Twitter/Mastodon is made of so much repost material that now the original content is supposed to be marked as such.
- 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.

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