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”.

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    Carefully curating a subscription list and sticking to the subscriptions filter has worked well for me.

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      It took a decade to get a decent sub list for me on reddit. Trying to duplicate it on Lemmy doesn’t work because communities are either tiny, duplicates (or moderates poorly so they may as well be duplicates, ie “news” “politics” and “us news” are just the same thing spamming the same articles), or non existent. I’d like a good sub list but it’s a sort of 'where so I even start".

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        For me I have every news and politics community blocked. I’m not sure how other people use this site, but I thought of all the things I’m interested in seeing and sought out those communities with the communities search and then subscribed to them. Sometimes I’ll check the other filters if I happen to run out of things to read.