I disagree that the different communities have distinct user bases. I don’t have data to support my claim, but one can assume there is a lot of overlap between the communities privacy, privacyguides, and [email protected]. Perhaps technology has a non-empty symmetric difference with respect to the other communities.
I for one was a little annoyed seeing the repeated links in my feed. It’s something that happens a lot on Lemmy which makes me want to come here less often. Perhaps a solution would be to combine cross posts into one post with links to the cross posts.