cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/538685

No more duplicate posts

One of the things that the recent addition of the Feeds feature highlighted was how many cross-posts / duplicate posts there are. When you display posts from linux@lemmy.world, linux@programming.dev, linux@lemmy.ml, etc all the cross-posts make it get repetitive, really fast. The same thing happens on the home feed too although it’s a bit less obvious because there’s a wider range of subjects involved.

Except now, it doesn’t, because PieFed de-duplicates your feed! And your home page, and your topics. Attached to this post is a screenshot showing how it works out - an article posted to 7 different places is only shown once despite me having joined most of those communities.

We’re still figuring out whether it’s a good idea to merge all the comments from all the cross-posts into one page and how to do that in a way that respects the different culture/rules in the communities that the posts were made in. It’s a tricky UX and social question.

I’ve held off on adding a cross-post function to PieFed until now but it’ll be added soon.

  • drzoidberg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    That makes sense. The only thing that might get confusing would be referencing a comment from a different thread.

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      That’s true - it would be useful to have a “copy direct link” option in the menu bar for each comment. @rimu@piefed.social

        • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Oh damn, you’re right!

          But sometimes on the fediverse there’s a “copy link to post/comment on original instance”, which I sometimes find to be useful. But this is already pretty great!

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            Oh yes, I really miss how ubiquitous that rainbow Fediverse icon is readily accessible. There’s ways and means to find an original for some things on PieFed - notably a community or user account or an actual post - but it does make things more difficult, e.g. to look at a comment that is on a different instance than the OP or the community that it was submitted to. That would indeed be a useful addition to make it so accessible as it is on Lemmy!:-)