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”.
It would be cool if crossposted posts would have like a common comment thread or something like this: a crosspost does not copy the post to another community, it creates a “softlink” to the original post. This way, everything done to any of the crossposted post (vote, comment, mark as viewed) would be also applied to other crossposted posts. This way, we would only see a single post instead of 15 posts, and we wouldn’t miss any comment from any of the communities it is crossposted. Obviously, users may wish to just copy the post to another community. What do you think about this? Should we open an issue on github about this?
Anything that would consolidate the posts and threads would be a step in the right direction.