wefwef @lemmy.world sunbeam60 @lemmy.one 1y ago

It would be awesome if wefwef did this

Three posts, across the fediverse, point to exactly the same link, with the same post text.

I would just love it if wefwef could collapse these into one (“Seen in 3 communities”) and then collapse the comments into one mega-thread.

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This would be my dream. My biggest hangup about the fediverse is the duplicates on different communities and instances
- I think even if nothing is intentionally done about it, it will get better. A dominant community will emerge, and other communities will evolve to have their own unique quirks. We're still in a kind of wild phase where every community is trying to find its place.
  
  That said, some kind of multi community organ6would be a very welcome feature.
  
  An example within Reddit.
  
  There are 5 different subs. Freefolk, Oldfreefolk and GameofThrones, asoiaf(A Song of Ice and Fire), pureasoiaf. All on the same subject matter.
  
  Each has an active community serving a different need.
  
  For that to happen though, the discoverability of communities needs to be better. Right now, searching for communities shows the number of people who are subscribed to it from your own instance, and not the true user count.
  
  Integrating the functionality of lemmyverse.net into lemmy like in this github issue would fix that and needs to be done asap; it's probably the biggest hurdle for newcomers
  
  I think even is nothing is intentionally done about it, it will get better
  
  Maybe not, considering the dynamic is different. On Lemmy there’s different instances that can have different people talking about the same topic, some will defederate each other so they might not even see that for you there’s a duplicate etc.
  
  Merging it all into a mega thread is an option, but poses the question of which one will you comment to? This has to be explicit or it will cause confusion.
- Well, even on Reddit I was always seeing the same content ciruculating through multiple subreddits at the same time.
  
  Definitely, and you'd have the same problem with the same content showing up in multi-reddits.
- Give it time. We're literally killing it during the great migration. Great developers are on point.
- Tell me you're a Mastodon user without saying you're a Mastodon user.
  
  As a newcomer to the Fediverse, can you ELI5 the differences between say Lemmy and Mastondon users/user experiences?
Maybe make it collapsible so the server you’re logged into is the top link
- Yup love that idea.
I think this was fixed in today's 0.18 upgrade.
- Really? On Lemmy’s side? Do you have a link to the release notes?
  
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases
  
  There is a change log here but I can’t be bothered to read it. What I do remember is ruud mentioning it somewhere on the meta posts
The normal Lemmy web-ui already does this.
- I’ve never seen that happen. Have an example?
  
  When you cross-post something this happens. But in the background the Lemmy web-ui is just comparing the URL and if it is exactly the same it treats them as a cross-post.
- It does?! That’s so cool, at least it’s possible then.
Probably it is a bit hard to do because I don't think it is a frontend issue.

Did you notice that the number of upvotes is different among the "same post"?

The other instances create a copy of the original and update after some time, probably. They aren't the "same post".

They could be collapsed as of today, maybe, but would only show your home instance's version, I think.
I want multis, although that's probably less app-specific than a Lemmy thing. I liked being able to put all the best news subs in one place, all the entertainment stuff in one place, etc

After they changed up the front page years back, I switched to almost only using multis

I'm still new, so maybe there's a way to do something equivalent that I haven't found
I’ve suggested a lemmy feature for community groups here and hoping they implement it. The memmy developer liked the idea when I first suggested it on the memmy github but said it would need API changes.
I agree. That would be awesome.

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