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If I see the same post spamming more than two other threads, user gets blocked. Anyone get annoyed seeing 4+ cross posts or more on their feed?
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EntheoNaut lemmy.ml EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-10-22
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Pick a lane, or give it some time.

Same with one user making 10 posts at a time to same community.

I block that lem.

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bugbear lemmy.sdf.org bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2026-08-08
#2 · Quote Reply

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.

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ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 slrpnk.net Nemo@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-01
#3 · Quote Reply

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

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∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ lemmy.nz luthis@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-29
#4 · Quote Reply

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

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rouxdoo lemmy.world rouxdoo@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#5 · Quote Reply

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

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southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic) sh.itjust.works southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-19
#6 · Quote Reply

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.

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EntheoNaut lemmy.ml EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-10-22
#7 · Quote Reply

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. Chi...

I get the point and understand wanting to make sure your info gets out there.

Due to how it seems the majority of folks scroll around here by using New the multiple share are too annoying.

I personally start my day with Scaled view but once I’ve gone through that New is the only way fly. That’s when it bothers me.

Definitely should be a way to collapse it or customized. I can deal with one or two but once I see something more than times in over it, user gets blocked.

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besselj lemmy.ca besselj@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-04-04
#8 · Quote Reply

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

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404found lemmy.zip 404found@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-03-10
#9 · Quote Reply

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

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Trying2KnowMyself [they/them/their/theirs/themself] lemmy.ml Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-12-07
#10 · Quote Reply

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.

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davel lemmy.ml davel@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-08
#11 · Quote Reply

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.

Cross-posting actually does get hidden to some extent, but I don’t know how it works. The feature was added a year or more ago, I think.

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bugbear lemmy.sdf.org bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2026-08-08
#12 · Quote Reply

Cross-posting actually does get hidden to some extent, but I don’t know how it works. The feature was added a year or more ago, I think.

Oh, interesting. I haven't made that work then. So far I keep seeing cross posts. Somtimes literally one after another.

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davel lemmy.ml davel@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-08
#13 · Quote Reply

Oh, interesting. I haven't made that work then. So far I keep seeing cross posts. Somtimes literally one after another.

Yeah, however it works, it clearly could be improved upon.

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nobodysreadingthis quokk.au nobodysreadingthis@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-08-22
#14 · Quote Reply

I get the point and understand wanting to make sure your info gets out there. Due to how it seems the majority of folks scroll around here by using New the multiple share are too annoying. I personally start my day with Scaled view but once I’ve gone through that New is the only way fly. That’s when it bothers me. Definitely should be a way to collapse it or customized. I can deal with one or t...

That's pretty obnoxious. Why not just avoid cross posted content?

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nobodysreadingthis quokk.au nobodysreadingthis@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-08-22
#15 · Quote Reply

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

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nobodysreadingthis quokk.au nobodysreadingthis@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-08-22
#16 · Quote Reply

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EntheoNaut lemmy.ml EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-10-22
#17 · Quote Reply

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EntheoNaut lemmy.ml EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-10-22
#18 · Quote Reply

That's pretty obnoxious. Why not just avoid cross posted content?

Generally it’s something I don’t want to deal with, especially if the post isn’t of interest to me. Thin the herd.

Clearly I’m not alone.

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anon6789 lemmy.world anon6789@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#19 · Quote Reply

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. 😁

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frischkaesbagett feddit.org frischkaesbagett@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-05-22
#20 · Quote Reply

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.

Isn't that something piefed does?

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EntheoNaut lemmy.ml EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-10-22
#21 · (edited) Quote Reply

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 in...

Nah we good. I like your content. Owls and other avians are gtg in my book. Big dinosaur fan.

I don’t do it to everyone but there’s a number of folks I’ve just been like, no sir I don’t like it.

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nobodysreadingthis quokk.au nobodysreadingthis@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-08-22
#22 · Quote Reply

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ryven lemmy.dbzer0.com ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-16
#23 · Quote Reply

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.

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anon6789 lemmy.world anon6789@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#24 · Quote Reply

Nah we good. I like your content. Owls and other avians are gtg in my book. Big dinosaur fan. I don’t do it to everyone but there’s a number of folks I’ve just been like, no sir I don’t like it.

Yay! I'm an exception!

I try to avoid being preachy or political, so I think that helps my case, even for those not much interested in animals, as crazy as that may be.

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CarlSagansMeatplanet lemmy.world CarlSagansMeatplanet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#25 · Quote Reply

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.

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KairuByte lemmy.dbzer0.com KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-09
#26 · Quote Reply

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?

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bugbear lemmy.sdf.org bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2026-08-08
#27 · Quote Reply

Isn't that something piefed does?

Possibly, I don't use Piefed.

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Diddlydee feddit.uk Diddlydee@feddit.uk
Joined: 2024-07-23
#28 · Quote Reply

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?

Why would you unsubscribe from a community you like when blocking a single user and still using the community makes much more sense?

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nullpotential lemmy.dbzer0.com nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-11-14
#29 · Quote Reply

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?

The solution would be better platform handling of duplicate/crossposts with user-controllable options for priorities, but it takes effort and time. I just learned to accept that I'm gonna see the same posts back to back a lot, though it still is a little annoying when someone posts it like 8 different places simply cuz I gotta scroll a lot.

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EntheoNaut lemmy.ml EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-10-22
#30 · Quote Reply

Why would you unsubscribe from a community you like when blocking a single user and still using the community makes much more sense?

This right here

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KairuByte lemmy.dbzer0.com KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-09
#31 · Quote Reply

Why would you unsubscribe from a community you like when blocking a single user and still using the community makes much more sense?

Because you’re blocking a large chunk of the content.

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Malyca lemmy.zip Malyca@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-04-13
#32 · Quote Reply

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.

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plc feddit.dk plc@feddit.dk
Joined: 2025-02-20
#33 · Quote Reply

What I would really love to see is if the lemmy gui / apps would just collate reposts in the feed you're viewing.

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