To me it’s reading from different perspectives and other’s writing style. It’s really important when it comes to political stuff or anything else that you need to base a decision on.
But I think it applies even just to plain articles about a niche you follow.
Like, maybe some new GPU features get released for Linux or something. Gamingonlinux might cover it from a Gaming perspective whereas Phoronix might focus more on the hardware aspect of things and the original blog post or changelog or whatever might just give a mostly a list of changes and a description.
I several times see multiple posts on different communities I follow with the same exact article. It’s exhausting.
This post is about similar topic, not exactly same article. Crossposting is a core functionality of the fediverse. Consider not following multiple communities with a similar topic if you want to see less duplicate posts.
Yeah, I know. And even if cross posting is a feature, what I see is not cross posts, but literal duplicates. Cross posts link to the original post,most of the duplicates I see don’t. Either users don’t use the cross post feature or it’s finicky.
Due to the fragmented nature of the fediverse there would be multiple posts I would miss if I didn’t follow several similar communities, I guess I’ll need to wait until people actually do crosspost and then implement a feature in the app I use to auto read them so they stay hidden. Idk.
Sure would be great if they would be automatically grouped or automatically marked as read