PS: “insulting” was a phone typo, sorry! 🙏 makes no sense :) I meant “insisting” or “arguing”.

I’m not insulting anyone (edit: that was because of a typo, see other reply). I don’t want to argue. I’m simply saying that the position or preference is subjective: neither I or you can make an objective argument of why someone ought to or oughtn’t to cross-post.

The simple proof is that you’re unhappy about cross-postings – and surely I have no right to say that you should be happy about them instead. And at the same time I am happy about cross-postings – and you have no right to say that I should be unhappy about them instead.

I could completely reverse your argument, insisting on why you should do differently.

It’s completely subjective.

This would break the way many users use Lemmy & Co. I’m happy about users that cross-post.

I only follow communities I subscribe to. Let’s say I follow B but don’t follow A. If a user posts something related to topic A and topic B only in a community A, which I don’t follow, I would miss information interesting to me. When the user cross-posts to community B as well, then I’ll also see that useful post.

Also, even the same topic/community appears on different instances, and some users may not even be aware of the same community in other instances. They would miss useful or interesting information without cross-posting.