How do I prevent this? Whenever an article gets popular it gets posted to the news community of every single instance so you have to scroll by it several times a day for a week. Is there a “prevent duplicates” option in any of the clients? I’m pretty close to abandoning lemmy honestly. There’s very little content that isn’t “memes for teenagers” or “the same news you saw yesterday”.
What are you using to browse? The default webUI de-duplicates cross-posts, most apps do not yet.
I’ve been using Sync and am planning on trying Lift off.
Don’t use liftoff. It hasn’t been updated in over a month despite being pretty incomplete and still lacks the ability to display some really basic features like spoilers or superscript.