In the past couple of days, I’ve started seeing duplicate posts on my feed. At first I thought it was a coincidence (people sharing the same news article as it’s published), but I’ve since realised this is usually the same user posting on two instances (e.g. Beehaw and Lemmy.ml) with identical titles and links.
I’m not sure there’s anything that can be done in this federated system, but it’s annoying…
I just upvote the one on beehaw.
Ideal scenario would be posts made to communities on smaller instances dedicated to what that post is about (so a tech instance, programming instance etc).
The issue arises from larger general purpose instances existing, and posters not understanding how the fediverse works. Or maybe wanting to game their reach/exposureAre they cross posts? Or just duplicates?
Bit of both it seems. There’s one or two users who seem to do this consistently. It’s fine in principle, but when communities are still small, cross-posting ends up taking up proportionally more space.
Does Lemmy support crossposting like Reddit did?
Yep, the double square icon button.
