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

submitted 1 day 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] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunatly that's extremely unhelpful behaviour. Just because you saw one particular post before the others, it doesn't mean others will too. They may not be subscribed to the same communities as you, or might sort differenty, or their instance may not even federate with the instance you saw the first post on. Down voting the 'later' posts ends up fouling other users' feeds.

It would be good if marking a post as read marked all the cross-posts read too, I feel ike that would mostly deal with the irritation people feel as you'd immediately know you'd seen it, or it would be hidden by the 'hide read posts' option.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree. Many people will be subscribed to many, but not all will. If they all have the same number of uobites and comments, then no superior group emerges.

If all are equal, then it will have no effect. If one community is more timely and more active, it should rise up as the main community.

I think cross posting and duplicate communities is a double edged sword. Personally, I up vote one and ignore the others, but it's effectively the same thing, magnified to down vote the others.

I think having a merge community feature or a grouped community feature, so all posts for that group show up together and all duplicates are marked as such, together.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Having a way for communities to form groups, and having clients handle those groups as a unit would be great. It would keep the best aspects of federation, make community discovery easier and minimise the duplication of posts.