I'm just getting familiar with lemmy fediverse and trying to make my way through it after getting out from reddit. I'm trying out liftoff app for android and I'm seeing way more double posts from different instances from same users. Same content from same users on multiple instances. I thought fediverse supposed to, You post in whatever instance you are and it'll be shared among all instances. I'm more confused now.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can subscribe and post to communities on any instance, not just the one you are on. People are posting to every relevant community in order to make sure everyone who might want to see their content does see it. There is a built-in cross-posting feature that should make it so that it's only in your feed once, but if they are manually posting to many communities instead of making a cross-post then you will see all of them if you are subscribed to all of those communities, or if you are browsing All.

[–] AbouBenAdhem 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does the built-in cross-posting feature work like reddit—where it just alerts you to the existence of the other threads—or does it merge the threads into one conversation?

[–] psychothumbs 5 points 2 years ago

It just alerts you