cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/23975556
Crossposts might be annoying, because
- essentially they are the “repost” feature of lemmy. And repeats might be low quality spam, because you have to look at the source, how often it was reposted already, etc.
- crossposts might seem like a cry for unwarranted attention, but they might be necessary in a fractured federated system like Lemmy …
Or do you not care when realizing “this is a crosspost”?
Yes. It’s annoying. I wish all the posts from the same person were in one thread so there weren’t 12 conversations happening in 12 different rooms.
When I see 5 posts in a row by the same person I look at their history and if they do that on the regular without making comments I block them.
theoretically a programmer could filter the duplicates out automatically … but I think this “repost problem” is not a top priority, the lemmy UI developers dont have much freetime at their hands to implement this.
The Tesseract web app does that. It stacks posts in the feed that have the same url or title.
The seemingly endless scroll of reposts is absolutely one of the factors preventing the casual passerby from sticking around lemmy. They won’t notice it’s posted to different instances, it just looks like a glitch.