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”.
This is something that ye olde Usenet got right, by the way. Newsreader software keeps track of which messages you’ve already read, and by default only displays unread messages. That’s slightly easier to do on a system like Usenet (or Twitter) that doesn’t make the distinction between “posts” and “comments” that Lemmy (and Reddit, Facebook, etc.) all do.