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”?
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).
Hmm sounds like a duplicate detection algorithm is used, maybe they check something like this:
if(post1 == post2) delete(post2);interesting!
I think it just marks it as read (dims it) instead of hiding it.