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No more duplicate posts (infosec.pub)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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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.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

That's great! I did a test edit and everything is looking functional. As you say the rules issue raises concerning points - perhaps the desktop could be made nice but then how will a mobile device handle it, etc. Lots to think about there.:-)