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The duplicate content thing is kinda impossible to solve perfectly. Some people will tell you it's a feature, and it can be interesting to see the different instances' comment sections (especially after moderation), but yeah it can be annoying to have your feed dominated by a few stories.
The default web front-end will merge crossposts, but won't if they're multiple posts to the same URL. I think some of the apps do have that deduplication as a feature, but I couldn't tell you which.
I remember the same problem from my Reddit days, but there wasn't generally so many similar, overlapping communities.
You know, I just realized I don't get it (or at least not as much) with Voyager on mobile, and I didn't even think about it. I'm using the Alexandrite UI on desktop and it's bad about it, I haven't found any options for it in the settings or anything. I noticed it a few times on reddit, but I was subbed to so many communities and they were so much more active that it almost never happened. Oh well.