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The worst part about Lemmy is having to scroll past the same article dozens of times when browsing All. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Bodongs@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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How do I prevent this? Whenever an article gets popular it gets posted to the news community of every single instance so you have to scroll by it several times a day for a week. Is there a "prevent duplicates" option in any of the clients? I'm pretty close to abandoning lemmy honestly. There's very little content that isn't "memes for teenagers" or "the same news you saw yesterday".

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[-] krayj@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

I'd be happy if we could just cease having the exact same post show up 2 to 5 times in a single community. I'm seeing the same article linking to the same URL showing up in news, for example, today, 2 days ago, 4 days ago, and 6 days ago.

As far as seeing the dupe across different communities, if you are subscribed to the same community on different instances, then I'd recommend picking one and unsubscribing from the rest. The only way a single community can become the most popular across all the instances is if people leave those other communities and settle on a champion.

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