No, because I follow multiple similar communities on different instances, and people crosspost to all of them at once, as they should, by design

Nah, it can be annoying, but cross posting is a good thing. It decentralizes content. Not all instances are federated with all the others. Multiple communities is healthy for the fediverse. So cross posting is also healthy. Yeah, it would be nice if there was a way to collapse cross posts, but I'd rather deal with it than have things get too narrow.

Now post flooding? That can get old fast. Chill. Spread that shit out. We ain't gotta see it all at once.

This feels silly.

Is your solution for them to just never crosspost? So they pick one community and never share with anyone on an instance that is defederated?

If the problem is they are cross posting to similar communities you’re subscribed to, why not just… unsubscribe from the duplicate communities?

I think I have zero users blocked, but if I were blocking people it wouldn't be for this. Cross-posting is good for the lemmy ecosystem, it spreads engagement to more communities and instances.

This is the second time I've seen this post...

You probably already have me blocked, but rapid cross posts get collapsed in the new feed or when they’re otherwise both on the same page. I’ll post the same thing to several relevant comms on different instances at once because I care less about those instances, but still want to put relevant content there. I don’t tend to xpost to multiple relevant comms on the same instance.

I post all my posts for the day in a block, so you'll see me post 3-6 things and be done. It's just easier for me. I post mainly educational content, so getting the posts out of the way all at once lets me just pop in during my breaks in the day to answer questions.

I don't think I'm annoying, and if anything, if you don't like my content, it keeps it in a relatively small range of your feed instead of it popping up multiple times. I figure I will annoy someone no matter what method I do it, so that's what I'm going to stick with. After 3 years of doing it, you've either blocked me or you're fine with it. 😁

The funny thing is, there was a similar post a day ago in a different server with the same community. And no it’s not annoying because this gives to those posts bigger reach. Just scroll past them, no need for blocks, it’s not that serious.

It would be nice if the cross posts got hidden, I wonder if any clients do that. It's one of my favourite feature in Tusky to hide multiple boosts in your feed.

I block them even quicker if their account is a week old or less

I haven't ran into this problem too much here. I would do this daily back when I was using Reddit

You do you. For me, I'd rather support the platform in any way possible, including dealing with annoying cross posts. I'd rather the most possible people see it than my own comfort.

Same, I understand why they do it, but I hate scrolling through and seeing the same thing over and over again. My blocklist is pretty long.

Yeah, I do the same thing. The third time I see the thumbnail user gets blocked.

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