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

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I only care when someone does it within the span of a few minutes so the top 5-10 posts I see when refreshing the page are literally the same post, from the same user, on 5-10 different communities. There is constant activity, but it's still not at the level of Reddit where posting to one place doesn't make it visible enough, and posting multiple times makes it feel like spam.

Compromise: Make a post, give it some time to see what traction it gets, and if it dies then cross post it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm the opposite. I don't mind seeing a few copies of the same news when it is current, that makes sense. The zombie reposts that keep popping up every day (then once again another week later for some reason...) get really annoying.