Recently had some people tell me that connect isn’t collapsing cross-posts so when a post is posted to multiple communities at the same time it floods the feed

The behaviour that occurs in lemmy-ui is it checks for posts with the same url in the ones its showing the user and removes any duplicates, only keeping the oldest one (and showing links to the rest in a cross-posted to section)

This helps especially in instances that recommend cross-posting since topics overlay between multiple communities

Should be relatively easy to implement since its just comparing the url values of the posts you already have

  • can
    3·
    1 year ago

    Does any app support this?

    • Mac@programming.devOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Havent done a check on all of them yet but figure they should all match the behaviour of the main lemmy frontend and its better behaviour to have then to just let it flood

      So far I made this post here and opened up an issue in the jerboa repository since those were the two that were reported

      • can
        2·
        1 year ago

        I agree it would be a great QOL feature but I tried pretty much every app (on android) and none supported it. I follow the app communities too but I may have missed an update post.

        • Mac@programming.devOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          yeah ill probably have to make an issue on all of their repositories

          its pretty much only supported by the main instance web frontends (lemmy-ui and pangora-ui) (been supported on lemmy-ui since before all of the apps were made)

          currently recommended in programming.dev to cross post to as many communities as you can to give content to the lower activity communities and since there tends to be a lot of overlap with topics but thats conflicting with current app behaviours

      • threelonmusketeersEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If it were implemented, how would comment threads work? Would they also be combined?

        • Mac@programming.devOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          no, theyre still two different posts and have different post views outside of the feed. Just one is more prominently shown in the feed while the rest are just links in the cross-posted to section below the post in the feed when it detects that multiple posts have the same url. Comment threads combining would be a separate feature

          • threelonmusketeersEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            So if I were to tap on the post in the feed, which post’s comment section would I see? The first post? Most recent post? The most popular post?

            • Mac@programming.devOP
              2·
              1 year ago

              lemmy-ui does the oldest post

              but you can get to any other post instead by tapping them in the cross-posted to section

              So in this if you tap the title you go to the post on gamedev since its the oldest post. But if you tap game_design at the bottom you go to the post on game_design