It’s annoying seeing the same headlines numerous times linking to same stuff because it’s cross posted to 3+ instances.

Is there a setting to reduce that or app that handles that well?

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      2 months ago

      Not a cross post. It just creates a post that links to the first post.

      If you made a third post that also linked to the first post using the same url as the second post, that would be detected and get linked up as a cross-post to the second post.

      Actual cross-posts work in both directions. Lemmy detects them as the same thing, both posts link to the other.

      Not in the post body, the post body quote and “cross-posted from” text is completely meaningless and just gets added by most clients, adding it doesn’t make something a cross-post, and removing it doesn’t break the actual cross-post feature, which shows up as a little “cross-posted to: list of communities” thing on the post page.

      Thunder has it, Photon does it, and the default webUI does it.

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        So does that mean shared comments? Or are they separate? And yeah I’m on eternity hangover from the Reddit days.

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          No, the posts are separate. But each post will list every other post so you can visit the other comment sections.