(Major event happens) "I should post immediately without first checking if there are already 30 other posts about this"

To be fair, there are multiple instances and communities. If there was only one post, there’s no guarantee that everyone on the fediverse would see it.

The system is not designed to provide one consistent view of all its contents.

If people would at least just check the community they're posting to, it would help immensely.
- Cross-posting existing posts also helps immensely to cut down on the clutter. I've done that, from larger communities to smaller ones that I wanted to help grow. I've never tried changing the title to see if it still connects, but maybe so, if someone wanted/needed (for the specific rules of the community) to do that.
- Still not that simple. A beehaw users could post something first and you and I wouldn't see it but others would.
- This was still an issue in Reddit times, but usually a single thread would rise to the top.
I think it would help if people used the cross posting feature
Along with posts from multiple agencies driving traffic.

I thought that would be different here, but sadly is not. lol
- I mean... the scope of the issue is different here.:-)
  
  What I like is that it is still possible to have an excellent conversation here. On Reddit I gave up all hope of that, and was leaving it regardless of finding here or not. I suppose I would just touch grass, read books, play games - the things we used to do before social media. And I do all that too, but also I found that here, you can sometimes have an enjoyable conversation, whereas there you basically never could, towards the end. 🙄
  
  And the tools themselves will get better, over time - e.g. the upcoming Sublinks.:-)

Hey did you guys hear that Trump got shot and Richard Simmons died?

Rings a bell, but if you wouldn't mind posting it to the same community that already has 6 of each, that would be greeeeat.
This is the way I find out richard simmons died??? I thought he was supposed to be super in shape, and healthy?
Oh fine, forget about Dr. Ruth why don't you?
Biggest tragedy today was Simmons didn't get to know.
- Does Scotty know?

Hey, Richard Simmons died: Show some respect.

Is it really a problem though? Most things on Lemmy are memes scrolling by. When something interesting happens and people post about it in multiple posts, is it really the most important thing to complain about multiple posts?

Some people are just bitter and want to project that bitterness onto the rest of the world.

But if you take time to check if anyone else posted about it, you might waste so much time that you won't be the first to post about it!

Thats a risk I'm willing to let you take.

Is it sad that despite all the posts annoying you, I hadn't yet heard the trump shooting news the first time I saw this thread. I skipped it, and thought "meh".

Now, seeing this post hours later I realize what you were referencing. But I hadn't seen any posts about it when you first posted this.

A cool feature for the fediverse could be some kind of aggregated view and a way for the community to link common topic threads.

Some of those were hilarious, like the one who didn't know there were shots, so he just said he collapsed then was escorted off the stage, or the "I wish he would Van Gogh away" one

I dunno, there is some minor utility in that you can gauge how major an event is, or at least is perceived to be, by how many posts are made about it shortly after happening and how long they continue to appear or persist.

i hate how good filters and content warnings are on mastodon and how terrible they are on lemmy like how?

I'm not into micro blogging, so am unfamiliar with a lot of the intricacies of Mastodon, but that does sound like it would be a good feature to port over here.

Well everybody likes to think they're original.

(I did check the comments before I posted this and am vaguely disappointed that I am.)

Bad take. I bet you're a weirdo who likes megathreads too.

The best part about Fedi is that it's decentralized. If some important event is happening in the world, I don't want to see it sequestered in one or two threads I might miss, I want to see that info blasted across my entire feed.

Especially this kind of Info... I want it blasted all over my ti.... feed.
That's not what they're saying. When Trump got shot last night, c/News had like 15 threads about it. Some of them like 2 hours later. It was ridiculous.
Yeah Man, fuck mega threads.
- It needs to be said again: fuck mega threads

And miss my chance at getting a butt-load of upvotes which I can use to...feel good about myself?

No thanks