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”?

  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    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.

    • scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      26 days ago

      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.