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..

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[–] Los@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are they cross posts? Or just duplicates?

[–] LeopardStripesx3@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] craimasjien@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Lemmy support crossposting like Reddit did?

[–] Los@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, the double square icon button.