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This Day in History: Jan. 20, 2020: CDC reports 1st lab-confirmed COVID-19 case in U.S.
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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In the name of decentralization, the covid19 sub should be moved/mirrored to another instance, and mander.xyz is very suitable.
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It's like that's almost exactly what I mentioned you said, and exactly why I'm commenting proper links to older posts! It fixes the proxying issue you mention to include it in the post, so I'm happy I can be of assistance. I'm still not sure why it's so upsetting to you when users link back to other posts in the comments, especially when you weren't the first one to post it. It helps drive conversation when people know it's happening elsewhere.
Not sure why you'd want to forward traffic to an instance who has admins that are transphobic and push Russian propaganda but you do you, I can't stop you :)
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?
One of these methods reduces friction, the other increases it just enough. Yours is the reducing friction method.
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!
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
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?
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.
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.
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
Then don't worry, I won't post links to transphobic content when I link the ML crossposts in the future, since you don't :)