Adam

Thing is, a cross post is nothing special. It’s a) a post with an identical link, and b) a post with “cross posted from…” appended to the body content.

It is still just a post. Lemmy (and k/mbin) just attempt to mask the fact there are multiple of them.

I don’t know if it can be done any better though, ActivityPub has quite a few quirks.

On my Pixel I long press at the bottom and then press on the code. I think it’s called google lens or something.

Very first line of the GitHub readme. As a support tool it’s mostly useless, endless similar or identical questions answered differently or not at all and none of it indexed by search engines for use on the web.

It’s an awful data silo / black hole that increases volunteer load.

There’s a huge amount of it on the fediverse right now. People are working very hard at getting rid, all of them volunteers, and in their own time.