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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      They have to be actual cross posts though, don’t they? Would that catch the same link spammed across multiple instances and communities?

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        There are no “actual” cross posts. Cross-posts on Lemmy are just all posts that have the exact same URL in the URL field.

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            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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        Yeah - I think anything the UI is doing, it’s getting the info from the API, so the poster would’ve had to use the ‘cross-post’ feature. There are some apps (e.g. Voyager) that try to wrangle cross-posts by title or URL, but title-matching can give false postives, and URL-matching usually assumes that one link hasn’t picked up some cruft, and it can’t do much for uploaded images if the poster didn’t cross-post (because it’ll be 2 different files with different URLs)

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          Different people posting the same URL get their posts linked up as cross posts.

          The cross post button just copies the post text into a new post. It doesn’t do anything special.

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            Oh, right. Sorry. I’ve gone back and checked the post I was thinking of when I made that comment, and - yeah - it turns out I was misremembering / didn’t properly investigate the first time.

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      News to me! Good to know. Will have to see how that’s handled and maybe make pr to my favorite apps

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    I just block the users who do it. Requires a few seconds and then I don’t worry about it again.