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”?
In my client the crossposts are only shown one time with decent links to the other posts. Not annoying at all.
interesting … I guess your client is some android app though … and the default browser UI handles it in a more annoying way for you as well?
My main client is the default app of lemmy.org in the browser.
Have now checked around and unfortunately I have to correct myself: It seems that crossposted posts are not unified into a single headline in the main feed. Maybe it only worked for the same instance, or something has changed over the last year.
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 :)