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”?
Strange. Have now found some unified crosspost links in main feed with only one headline and the link to the crosspost below. Both examples are from around the same time. Maybe there is some logic that posts are only unified if there is no post in between them, or they are from similar time. Much guessing from my side.
Crossposts are identified by a similar link, which is the case for your two examples (the techcrunch article or the picture link)
This makes if course more sense from technical and logical side :)