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”?

  • scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    10 hours 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!