How to avoid seeing the same posts over and over again? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by klu9@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Newb here. In my main feed, I see some posts over and over again. I see a post, click "Next" and there it is again. And again on the next page, and a couple of others I've already seen too. And again on the next page. (Sometimes they are cross-posts to a different /c, but mostly not.)

It's annoying having to wade through post after post I've already seen.

What I've tried so far:

Set main feed to "New" rather than "Active" etc.
"Hide this post" when I see it for the third or fourth time

Are there other ways?

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[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

I think Lemmy has an issue with the same community existing on multiple servers and the "big stories" tend to get posted to all of them. So you'll mark a post as read on (for example) linux@lemmy.world only to see it again a minute later on linux@lemmy.ml. If this is what you're experiencing, I don't think there's a solution yet, but I think some options are being worked on.

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the info.

One thing: I don't see a "Mark as Read" button.

I might have the wrong terminology: when I say "my main feed", I don't mean an RSS feed in a feed reader, I just mean what I see when I go to my instance's homepage ( https://lemmy.ca/ ) in my web browser.

[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I'm on lemmy.ca too. I almost exclusively do Lemmy with the Jerboa app on my phone which has a setting to automatically mark as read on scroll. I thought the web interface did this too, but I can't see it. Now I'm confused 🤔

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