If people would use the lemmy cross posting functionality it would only show up once.
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Indeed, unfortunately most of the mobile apps don't implement that feature
I think ljdawson is working on it for Sync. I assume that's why he held off on implementing posting.
That would make sense
if people do cross posts, will i see the post only once?
will lemmy detect that i can see the original + 3 crossposts and show me only the original?
this is more like a feature request, i don't think we are there yet.
we could also aggregate and sync comments across cross postings, so that the post is really just one, but posted in more than one community.
Yes, this is how it works in lemmy-ui. In this following example someone posted to [email protected] and I pressed the cross-post button and cross-posted it to [email protected]:
And if you cross post it to more then one there will be just a list of them.
if people do cross posts, will i see the post only once?
will lemmy detect that i can see the original + 3 crossposts and show me only the original?
On the website, it does
Problem is on mobile apps. If it works on website, that's good but doesn't solve the problem of majority of users that are on mobile.
Man Memmy needs that ASAP..
Eh. Eventually one of them would win out. I posted the same link in [email protected] and [email protected]. The first one hasn’t had any comments where as the second one has more than a dozen comments. I know where I’ll post the next time.
There are a couple of users I recognize just because of the amount of duplicate/triplicate/quadruplicate posts I see from them, often times grouped up like that too.
Which... Why? There's no karma to farm here, just post it once and let the conversation happen there.
No offense to anyone, but I'm down voting duplicates to try to stop this shit.
Because there's more then one community of the same topic. They're actually doing a really good thing, they're trying to grow multiple communities. It's not karma farming here, it's supporting communities. That is much preferably then people only submitting to the biggest community and create more centralization.
The whole point of making a federated network of independent instances is to avoid the issues arising with one central instance, right? Putting the content out to multiple instances plays into that: If it's important content, no single authority can easily censor it, and the loss of a single instance won't erase it.
If it's trash, of course, every community in every instance you post it to will have to clean it up separately. Arguably, that puts more strain on the respective moderation teams, but if (ideally) those are disjunct people (again, to avoid the issues of a single authority), the strain should be distributed.
And on the plus side, it would enable each community (in the lemmy sense) to enforce their own nuanced rules, additionally leading to slightly more choice between the types of moderation you favour (as opposed to "There's one big sub, take it or leave it").
Individual communities may be smaller, but maybe some more form of coordination of similar communities across instances could amend that (like linking to the other communities in your sidebar etc.).
I could also imagine a super-community solution that would allow you to aggregate several communities across instances similar to multireddits. I'm new here, so I'm not sure if that exists, nor have I given the implementation any thought, but I suppose that could be convenient.
There are some who are trying to feed content to all communities instead of just choosing.
I suggested an idea to fix this, that I called "thread entanglement". I had suggested it for Kbin specifically, before, but honestly the base Lemmy software could use something like this. I'd love to see some sort of smart merging of duplicate threads like this be possible.
As others have mentioned in that thread. It would be better as an option from the user side rather than site wide forced implementation. I hope you open a GitHub issue/discussion in the repository so the idea could get more exposure.
It's just like browsing r/all on reddit. We did it, Lemmy!
Keep in mind you can always block communities you're not interested in to prevent them from appearing in any feed. I've already blocked plenty of communities to make the "All" post list digestable.
There are so many though. I'm trying to prune politics from my feed but people keep making new goddamn magazines and then crossposting everything everywhere anyway.
I appreciate the poster sharing the article to multiple communities/instances, but would be nice if the Lemmy front-end could batch these (maybe with a link like "appears in a@b, b@b, c@a ...") if the user + link + title all hashed out to the same thing.
If the title text is the same it should just squash them, show you all the options on further inspection.
I feel like the same thing happened on reddit when you followed multiple similar communities, i.e. unions and iwwunions in this photo.
I'm all in favor of several communities on the same topic as long as they offer different content
Having the same link or picture shared across several communities is just detrimental to the user experience.
Also, to avoid this, maybe we should have core communities for a specific topic (for instance unions), and then they can fork if there is a need (e.g. what happened with [email protected] and [email protected]
OP, as of now, I would just suggest to block communities that are too similar.
I only have one tech community as they seemed to all be the same anyway, I'll reassess in a few weeks if I need to select the other one.
The problem with blocking a community is if you block the one that eventually takes off, you miss out. I am just accepting it for now and assume it will sort itself out.
Another option would be to upvote one and downvote the other, to help speed the process up.
My biggest gripe right now is how often everything goes down. About 6 times out of 10 when I go to load anything on lemmy it is down, confirmed on https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/
lemmy.world got too big IMO. So I ended up switching to a different instance. If all the users were to evenly distribute themselves across many instances, and not just have everyone on like 1-3 different instances, I think that the issues with unavailability, lag, and whatnot would happen much less.
I had the most issues on my lemmy.world account. I've had less issues on my lemmy.ca account, maybe try making an account on a different instance? World has been getting attacked a lot lately.
I'm actually trying to solve this issue on my own Lemmy app. It automatically switches instances when the requested one is down. Works only in the Feed right now and, of course, accounts are still instance-bound - but I will fix that soon.
I'm surprised that no-one's brought out a client that can merge communities. People properly using the cross-posting feature seems to help with this a bit.
At least if lemmy detects the same link it should view it as a cross-post automatically, even if people didn't use the cross-post UI.
What is worse is that most of those duplicates come from the same poster who are not even cross posting...
Don't sort by new? Top on a short time frame is probably a better choice
This is top 6 hours.
Give it some time my dude. Devs are working to fix these issues. Eventually we will get there
Yeah, missing active various support communities.