Eh. Eventually one of them would win out. I posted the same link in movies@lemmy.world and moviesandtv@lemmy.film. 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.
If people would use the lemmy cross posting functionality it would only show up once.
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
I often crosspost (with the crosspost button) my memes across multiple communities but I occasionally get annoyed comments from people who subscribe to all the shitposting subs… I guess even the official function doesn’t always work as intended?
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.
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
Yes, this is how it works in lemmy-ui. In this following example someone posted to !technology@beehaw.org and I pressed the cross-post button and cross-posted it to !firefox@lemmy.ml:
And if you cross post it to more then one there will be just a list of them.
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 communities - a dozen isn’t enough, apparently - and then crossposting everything everywhere anyway.
You can also block users, which is super helpful with people that go on crossposting rampages.
Could you please share the blocked part of the JSON you get with https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim ?
That could probably help new joiners.
Why would I? The list of communities which one wants to block is very personal / individual. My preferences what I don’t want to engage with is purely mine and cannot be transferred to all other users. So any user should make their own decisions what communities they want to block, instead of blindly copying someone elses and potentially missing out on content they would enjoy.
I agree with you to an extent, but I think there should still be a default list of blocked instances that we could provide to new joiners, so that they can at least have a base to avoid the experience OP had.
Of course that would be opt-in, but at least that would ease the adoption a bit.
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 !android@lemmy.world and !android@lemdro.id
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.
I just follow them all, and get all the content. Big W
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.
I feel like the same thing happened on reddit when you followed multiple similar communities, i.e. unions and iwwunions in this photo.
Very much so. Reddit was crossposted to shit.
I had an extension that collapsed reposts into one post. That feature is even more important on lemmy.
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.
What is worse is that most of those duplicates come from the same poster who are not even cross posting…
Yeah, it feels so silly, especially with there being no karma
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@cyu@sh.itjust.works stop cross-posting to the same communities, there’s no karma!
Not sure if tagging is a thing 🤷
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.
Hadn’t thought about it like that. Thanks. I think this will become less of an annoyance over time, too. The more communities show up and get active, the more I subscribe to, then the more I’ll use my subscribe feed and therefore won’t see the duplicates.
There are some who are trying to feed content to all communities instead of just choosing.
beeper spotted
I only subscribe to the usually most popular community in a subject I’m interested in for this reason
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.
There was talk about the ability to link communities in the future, so that dupes show up as merged. No idea what happened of that.
