this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
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What's the point in these bots posting news articles about stuff covered a week ago?
I had thought that a number of subreddits took the repost thing a bit too seriously. I was a relatively heavy user, and I’d still be encountering content for the first time even though there were people complaining about reposts.
But on lemmy there’s not enough total content to begin with, and what there is gets fragmented across a fractal explosion of topics, so I end up having to browse /all sorted by new and just count on blocking communities rather than subscribing to tune my content.
I will still see the same article posted across multiple instances and topics in a row. I haven’t yet found a client that can make the UX as seamless as Apollo or even Alien Blue.
I have a similar strategy, and I don't mind the duplicate topics as it makes sense for how Lemmy works.
But this news was covered on this very community five days ago.