Is there a way to not see duplicate of the same topic across different communities?

dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works

Hi everyone!

I’m really enjoying the Fediverse through Lemmy and Peertube.

Two creators I enjoy and follow on the Fediverse are Dash and Gardiner Bryant (both work on The Bryant Review) as their content is really enjoyable.

Sadly they are the target of my post as they shares their content on many different communities that I follow.

Today I had 5 times the same topic on RetroDeck (great project too) on my feed on Lemmy (Voyager).

It is the same on PieFed (Interstellar).

This is really annoying and I haven’t found a way to not show these duplicates. Do you know about one or is it worked on?

Also when crossposting, it would be great if everything appeared under on post. Is it feasible?

Sorry if it’s easy and I just missed it. In a way I hope it is because it would mean that the Fediverse is festure rich

Edit: Added Dash as she was in fact the one who published the article. Also it appears that the issue is only on mobile apps since both the browser of Lemmy and PieFed don't have it.

Edit 2: Using the Progressive Web App of PieFed seems to have solved the issue for me

thealbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone

You're not alone in this wish, though I'm sure that doesn't surprise you. I sort of accepted it as just part of how a federated reddit-style forum would work, but if there's a way to address it, that would be very cool.

otter@lemmy.ca

I think some mobile apps get rid of the duplicates, although I'm not familiar with which ones do that. Unless someone else replies here, you could try posting to !lemmyapps@lemmy.world

queeradjacent@sh.itjust.works

Sounds like a good feature request, to either Lemmy in general or whatever that app is, or both

munkisquisher@lemmy.nz

Connect app stacks them together and shows the replies from each thread in batches

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Lemmy doesn't really have much in the way of an "algorithm" and it really shows with stuff like this.

Mbin can combine posts like that and show comments from all of them, but I think it shows all posts in the main post view, it only combines the comments. I really hope in the future Lemmy combines crossposts into one posts. It's something an app could do. But I'd love to see it in the default UI so it hopefully encourages all apps to support it too.

openstars@discuss.online

In Lemmy, no way.

In Tesseract (yes, that Tesseract!) there was a partial way, but only if the posts happened to come in as part of the same batch when accessing the instance. db0 helpfully made a fork of that, but the community outcry was so enormous that several instances simply dropped support of it entirely rather than switch to using that fork.

In PieFed, partially, but only for those sharing the same URL (like these examples probably do?) - so text-only posts do not qualify.

And then 3rd-party apps add a whole new dimension to this, by replacing the Lemmy/PieFed/PyLova/Mbin front-end with their own stuff. Note that Voyager provides only rudimentary support for PieFed. Overall, app support for the improvements that PieFed makes over Lemmy is still fairly shitty, sorry to say - note that you can tweak some settings in a web browser (like user blocks & such that are entirely impossible in Lemmy) and then that affects your using the 3rd-party app on a more daily basis, but many of the more advanced features of PieFed/PyLova are still inaccessible from most 3rd-party apps. See this wiki page for more details - like "Crosspost comment merge" is only supported in Interstellar, and some features (like a mod locking a post) is not available from any app, iOS or Android.

Lemmy is the same way - reducing such crossposts an extremely often-requested feature, for both software platforms, but so far I think only PieFed accessed via a web browser can do it even partially. Or certain 3rd-party apps (not sure which ones, though I've looked at several FLOSS offerings and did not see that - maybe only paid ones do?)

snooggums@piefed.world

Piefed web interface does stack comments if cross posted, so I'm guessing the poster isn't bothering to cross post if it isn't showing that way in Intersellar.

cowbee@lemmy.ml

Multi-comms are a planned future feature IIRC.

sibbo@sopuli.xyz

I think it's more of an etiquette problem than a feature problem. Posting the same thing to many different communities should be deleted as spam. The multipost in your screenshot is certainly spam. Report that.

If you want to post something and don't know which community fits best, or feel like multiple could fit, then just post your thing to one community. If other people find your post especially interesting, they can crosspost it. To me, cross-posting your own posts is a sign of an overinflated sense of self-importance.

anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz

Here's how piefed handles it using the browser.

13igtyme@startrek.website

That one one thing I liked about Piefed. If only the creator wasn't a man-baby.

cannedtuna@lemmy.world

@PerfectDark@lemmy.world

banana_pie@piefed.zip

Piefed really is lemmy done right in many aspects

vicinus@piefed.zip

My understanding is that Piefed does group the posts together, but that no apps currently implement that feature.

From Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz, it sounds like the Connect app does stack the posts, but that may be through their own feature and not Piefed's (no idea). I just looked for a site or post that compared app features and couldn't find one that listed grouping cross-posts.

My recollection is that Lemmy 1.0 may have cross-post grouping, but I don't see it listed as a feature on 1.0 beta testing post.

die4ever@retrolemmy.com

Technically the default Lemmy UI does hide the dupes, although it may still be buggy. Probably worth revisiting this once v1.0 launches. I'm not sure which apps do and don't do that though.

pglpm@lemmy.ca

This would break the way many users use Lemmy & Co. I'm happy about users that cross-post.

I only follow communities I subscribe to. Let's say I follow B but don't follow A. If a user posts something related to topic A and topic B only in a community A, which I don't follow, I would miss information interesting to me. When the user cross-posts to community B as well, then I'll also see that useful post.

Also, even the same topic/community appears on different instances, and some users may not even be aware of the same community in other instances. They would miss useful or interesting information without cross-posting.

iantwenty@piefed.social

For voyager it is an open issue

Crossposts are not combined · aeharding/voyager · Discussion #465

Crossposts are not combined

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mesamunefire@piefed.social

Its so nice.

sibbo@sopuli.xyz

It is okay to miss out on something. If nobody crossposts it, it probably wasn't that interesting anyways.

If you are afraid that you are missing out on some content, then look at the crossposts in your followed communities. Maybe the communities that were the origin of the crossposts are interesting, and worth joining? Then you'll also see all their posts in the future.

If you want to see all posts that could remotely be relevant to you, you ultimately will have to follow all possibly relevant communities anyways. Because most users post their things simply to one community and call it done. And that's ok and good, and does not need changing.

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