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Lemmy doesn't have that strong of a "concept" of cross posts. The way it appears to work is that all posts linking to the same URL are all considered cross-posts of each other, so I bet the cross posts Lemmy's API gives are basically just search results for that URL. When making a cross post there's nothing that I'm doing to identify that it's a cross post, but it knows.
I'm not sure what'd be best. Backend would maybe be the least taxing, but at any rate the amount of work to be done to gather all the comments goes up as the number of cross-posts increeases, so 8 cross posts means you have to request 8 times the number of comment lists.
Maybe a good middle ground could be a menu that shows you a bit more of the cross post (because you can completely change the post body for example, or just link to the same thing on a brand new post) and let you select which post's comments you'd like to see.
Yea, there's an issue (on GitHub) to show not just cross-posts with the same URL (which only works for posts with a URL in the first place), but also to anytime a cross-post is made, which, along with the idea of being able to view a merge of the comments, seems like a nice idea ... along with things like multi-communities/community-groups, it would facilitate more connectivity and/or user-driven etching out of customisable "spaces".