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Is there a way to group posts from different communities together? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As I scroll through Lemmy, I keep seeing the same posts over and over. Exact same title (usually cross posted). Is there a way to group these posts so that we can decide which instance to interact with instead of seeing the same post 6+ times? It starts to feel like the content is just being recycled to the top of the next page.

I use the default browser on PC and Summit on my phone and usually sort by new. This same issue was starting to get to me on reddit til I left

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly, Lemmy doesn't provide crosspost information in the feed; the frontend has to detect those duplicates and roll them up itself.

Not sure if any other UIs do, but Tesseract will match crossposts on title as well as URL (the default UI only uses URL). I wrote that behavior in specifically for what you described; I was annoyed by seeing 3-4 duplicate posts to different communities all in a row.

It's not perfect since the crosspost rollups only happen if the duplicates are fetched in the same batch, but it does help a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Tesseract

That looks like a great project, thank you.

If I understand correctly(I may not), this is a plugin/replacement for instances and not for clients?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, mostly. It's a third party UI that you'd use in place of (or alongside) any other. Works on mobile (optionally as a PWA) and desktop.

Not sure if lemmy.ca runs it directly, but the hosted instance is unlocked so that it can connect to any Lemmy instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Thank you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

mbin does this by default;

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Oh, that looks like what I want to see. Got some reading to do hehe. thank you