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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)

In my client the crossposts are only shown one time with decent links to the other posts. Not annoying at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

interesting … I guess your client is some android app though … and the default browser UI handles it in a more annoying way for you as well?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My main client is the default app of lemmy.org in the browser.

Have now checked around and unfortunately I have to correct myself: It seems that crossposted posts are not unified into a single headline in the main feed. Maybe it only worked for the same instance, or something has changed over the last year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Strange. Have now found some unified crosspost links in main feed with only one headline and the link to the crosspost below. Both examples are from around the same time. Maybe there is some logic that posts are only unified if there is no post in between them, or they are from similar time. Much guessing from my side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe there is some logic that posts are only unified if there is no post in between them, or they are from similar time. Much guessing from my side.

Crossposts are identified by a similar link, which is the case for your two examples (the techcrunch article or the picture link)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This makes if course more sense from technical and logical side :)