I happen to like it very much.
Good aside from all the repetitive content. One of the problems with federation, I suppose. Someone sees an article they like and they feel they have to post it on every community related to politics on every instance they can find, for example. Mostly a politics problem, but also memes and gaming and technology. Okay, not mostly a politics problem.
I’ve been finding the same and have just started using the filter option in my client lately. It’s not ideal but the alternative is that I get bored of seeing it and stop using Lemmy altogether.
I do worry that the repetitive content will drive new users away
I think the same problem exists in reddit as well. There’s a lot of sub with slight variation so the same content will show up again and again because i subbed to multiple of those sub. (eg: holdmybeer and holdmyredbull)
If you use the browser UI, the ui will group all those crosspost together.