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.
It was on All via Everything. So it shows same posts of different instances as different rows? Now I feel stupid. Sorry for wasting all your time really. Edit: But still I'm wondering why post same content on multiple instances.
Federated environments lead people to create the same content on different instances.
Some people will then cross post between those instances.
On top of that there has been some issues with environments not being in sync with one another. So some people are creating threads on multiple instances to ensure that information exists across as many instances as possible.
Think of it like how people forward emails without checking who was on the original recipient list.
People are coming from Reddit where they posted to every relevant subreddit, and they’re doing the same here. It is unnecessary because of how the fediverse works, they’re just trying to maximize engagement.
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