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This Day in History: Jan. 20, 2020: CDC reports 1st lab-confirmed COVID-19 case in U.S. (www.live5news.com)
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[–] 0 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I'm not doing it to forward traffic to a single place, nor am I the one crossposting ML content. You claim that crossposting linking always works, so weren't you the first one to link to ML?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)

    One of these methods reduces friction, the other increases it just enough. Yours is the reducing friction method.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    According to your logic, crosspost links always display, so by crossposting from ML you're driving traffic there. Right? It's right in your post, you even said so!

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    They display, in a separate submenu, increasing friction. It's well known in human behavior/UI design that every additional click for the average user reduces the likelihood they're just going to click it for no reason

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    That's not really friction, and in fact, on the standard Lemmy UI, it's not in a submenu at all..it's just straight up linked under the post title. No extra click required. So what's the difference?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Well sure, it's not foolproof, but the vast majority of users are probably not using the default Lemmy UI (because it kinda sucks lol) and instead are using an app or other front end.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    People should know that you're crossposting from transphobic instances, in my opinion, so I'll continue letting people know, especially for those using screen readers. Also, I use the default Lemmy UI almost daily.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Don't worry, I don't crosspost anything that's transphobic or propaganda or that weird....spam post that shows up from time to time....

    It's a big reason why I can't bot it lmao

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