No, because I follow multiple similar communities on different instances, and people crosspost to all of them at once, as they should, by design
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
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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.
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.
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.
I block them even quicker if their account is a week old or less
This is the second time I've seen this post...
I haven't ran into this problem too much here. I would do this daily back when I was using Reddit
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.
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.
Yeah, I do the same thing. The third time I see the thumbnail user gets blocked.