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Are you annoyed by lemmy crossposts? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago by glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions

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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"?

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[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I am a little confused:

If it’s just someone posting the same thing to 2-5 communities at once. I find it highly obnoxious

does "at once" mean for example: within 5 minutes of the original post?

For example I cross-posted this question here to lemmy.worlds "No stupid questions" community within 5 minutes of this post, would you be annoyed by that?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 5 days ago

For example I cross-posted this question here to lemmy.worlds "No stupid questions" community within 5 minutes of this post, would you be annoyed by that?

Yes. Unless something changed in other UIs, crossposts are only defined by their URL. With text only posts, that would be at least two identical posts back to back. Not many UIs will roll up crossposts on title (again, unless something has changed on that front between 0.19.3 and 0.19.9.