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Are you annoyed by lemmy crossposts? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 weeks ago by glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
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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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[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

If anything, I just stumbled with this setting in the Summit Lemmy client for Android:

I just started using it so I'm still gonna check if I see less duplicated or cross posts... (I always hid my read post before starting my doom scrolling session, so I'd suggest that is a requirement for my testing).

[-] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Mark duplicate posts as read … Any posts that are determined to be duplicates …

Hmm sounds like a duplicate detection algorithm is used, maybe they check something like this:

if(post1 == post2) delete(post2);

interesting!

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I think it just marks it as read (dims it) instead of hiding it.

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