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”?

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Depends on several factors for me.

    Not Annoyed:

    • If it’s cross-posted to a community that’s not almost identical to the first. e.g. Crossposted from News to “Not the Onion”
    • The community receiving the crosspost is small/niche

    Mildly Annoyed:

    • Cross-posting to a similar community, especially on the same instance. e.g. News -> World News.

    Annoyed:

    • If it’s just someone posting the same thing to 2-5 communities at once. I find it highly obnoxious
    • Someone doesn’t check that the same article (or almost the exact same article) has been posted to the same community already (depends on the UI/app if that counts as a crosspost; in the one I use it is)

    Extremely Annoyed

    • The way Lemmy defines cross-posts under the hood. There’s no direct link between them at all, and they’re a completely artificial construct on the UI side. Basically any two or more posts with the same URL that come through in the same API fetch have to be rolled up by the UI. Some UIs will extend that to the title as well.
    • scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲OPEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      I am a little confused:

      If it’s just someone posting the same thing to 2-5 communities at once. I find it highly obnoxious

      does “at once” mean for example: within 5 minutes of the original post?

      For example I cross-posted this question here to lemmy.worlds “No stupid questions” community within 5 minutes of this post, would you be annoyed by that?

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        For example I cross-posted this question here to lemmy.worlds “No stupid questions” community within 5 minutes of this post, would you be annoyed by that?

        Yes. Unless something changed in other UIs, crossposts are only defined by their URL. With text only posts, that would be at least two identical posts back to back. Not many UIs will roll up crossposts on title (again, unless something has changed on that front between 0.19.3 and 0.19.9.