How do I prevent this? Whenever an article gets popular it gets posted to the news community of every single instance so you have to scroll by it several times a day for a week. Is there a “prevent duplicates” option in any of the clients? I’m pretty close to abandoning lemmy honestly. There’s very little content that isn’t “memes for teenagers” or “the same news you saw yesterday”.
Carefully curating a subscription list and sticking to the subscriptions filter has worked well for me.
It took a decade to get a decent sub list for me on reddit. Trying to duplicate it on Lemmy doesn’t work because communities are either tiny, duplicates (or moderates poorly so they may as well be duplicates, ie “news” “politics” and “us news” are just the same thing spamming the same articles), or non existent. I’d like a good sub list but it’s a sort of 'where so I even start".
For me I have every news and politics community blocked. I’m not sure how other people use this site, but I thought of all the things I’m interested in seeing and sought out those communities with the communities search and then subscribed to them. Sometimes I’ll check the other filters if I happen to run out of things to read.
I’d be happy if we could just cease having the exact same post show up 2 to 5 times in a single community. I’m seeing the same article linking to the same URL showing up in news, for example, today, 2 days ago, 4 days ago, and 6 days ago.
As far as seeing the dupe across different communities, if you are subscribed to the same community on different instances, then I’d recommend picking one and unsubscribing from the rest. The only way a single community can become the most popular across all the instances is if people leave those other communities and settle on a champion.
This is something that ye olde Usenet got right, by the way. Newsreader software keeps track of which messages you’ve already read, and by default only displays unread messages. That’s slightly easier to do on a system like Usenet (or Twitter) that doesn’t make the distinction between “posts” and “comments” that Lemmy (and Reddit, Facebook, etc.) all do.
Sometimes the same post is posted two different places. I have seen it before.
Support question. Locking.
