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

- 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.:-)

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?

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.)

And miss my chance at getting a butt-load of upvotes which I can use to...feel good about myself?
No thanks