Being subscribed to similar communities on multiple instances and seeing duplicates

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It goes without saying, but any user included in the post should not be harassed. Those found to be following this person will be banned from the community.

Here's my idea:

It's a middle ground between completely hiding the duplicates, and letting them as is. Once you click that plus button, it shows the duplicates as full posts, otherwise it leaves them as just one-liners.

This also happened on reddit

There is a cross post feature, and the resuting post appears to be aware it was cross posted - it would be nice if Lemmy would consolidate those to one post that appears in multiple communities, or at least show you only one of them.

This icon makes a cross-post, it shoud be used, because it combines them in the feed if both are in the same view (often in New), but it probably should be automated, at least if the link and the title are the same, so it also works if someone doesn't use the button to cross post.

Example:

This way you still are only one click away from each communities comments.

But did you know about the nearly 50% reduction in Threads users???

It's the same motherfucker just karma farming

Just block the user?

I feel like the best way to handle the situation with similar/same communities on different instances is to allow communities to automatically federated with other communities. That way subscribing to one community will show you its posts and all the posts to its linked communities.

It would be especially helpful for these general purpose communities like Technology or News since I would imagine most communities are going to have one.

If that happens then we wouldn't need to hunt down and follow every single instance of the same community. Let the mods handle it on their end to save the rest of us the effort.

not a necessarily a bot, but also there need to be a feature where duplicate posts need to be hidden. inoreader (rss reader) has this is a premium feature. lemmy apps need to draw inspiration from the rss readers, since content is similar. in fact i used to browse inoreader before using a lemmy client app.

I think bots are too agressive posting everywhere. example linkbot, it has posted over 20000 posts and its only one month old account.

I think "World News" and "Technology" are not quite similar communities. It's up to the mods of each community to decide whether the content posted is appropriate to that community. One could argue, that an article about Threads is not exactly "World News" though. Also I think that the different variants of e.g. Technology will have a "flavor" of the instance that it's hosted on. You then get the option to subscribe only to the flavors you like, or if you subscribe to all, then there's bound to be some duplicates. Maybe some future feature could combine them - it would need to be clear which comment threads are from which instance though.

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I don't see the issue, it's not a duplicate post, it's 3 separate posts by the same person into different communities.

Eh, it's a benefit and a drawback. For those of us that don't use browsers to access lemmy, crossposting is much harder for one thing. Then you've got bots and people that don't even know that crossposting exists at all.

But, the ability to choose which communities you block and thus streamline your feed is too big a benefit to really be infuriating in natural general. Once there's a built in way to migrate block lists, it'll be even less infuriating.

But yeah, you gotta block the bots that don't crosspost correctly, or they're utter spam machines. If users behave as bots, gotta block them too. It sucks, but it's miles better than trying to artificially limit communities.

Its not really surprising to see duplicate from what are basically all 'general-purpose' instances. Merging duplicate posts into one would be a great solution.

Each instance can have their own rules and mods, I have already encountered power tripping mods on lemmy.world, I can choose other instances with the same threads with different mods.

It's a UI issue and not really an issue with how Fediverse communities work, if the same link is posted in multiple communities it should ideally show you only one of them in your feed. The user would be able to specify how he wants to discriminate between the same links: most recent one, most active one etc... It shouldn't be difficult to do at the UI level.

You probably have to stick to one of the communities. That's what I do to avoid this kind of issues.

If these are serial reporting, Threads is down by a factor of 8. Could be more. Antelope FWY 1/128 mile.

It seems useful to have bots serial posting for a while, within some limits.

These forums have a chicken and egg problem - need posts to get commentors, need the commentors to incintivise posters. Also just need content in general to get any readers.

But I'm in general agreement that recently the feeds haven't been too smooth on Lemmy and that take a lot away from the browsing experience.

I don't think this is all that dissimilar from how Reddit was though if you were subscribed to two world news subreddits and two technology subreddits. I think the key is picking out the more popular communities and only subscribing to those. Eventually the goal would be for the less popular communities to fizzle out in favor of bigger communities.

I do it, and honestly I wish there was a way to post a "Connect" Post or something that would appear to the three I post to

I hate that. I wished there was a way to block terms or hide all previous posts so that you can hide a whole lot of them that you're not interested in reading.

There is discussion on going at !news@lemmy.world currently about new rules. Users posting the same story from the same source will be blocked by an automod. I asked about users posting the same story from different sources, and apparently that's absolutely fine. So expect this problem to get a lot worse before steps have to be taken to make it better :/

There are a lot of bots still here so I wouldn't be all that surprised.

Conversely I'm having the similar issue of blocking one community but then different communities with the same name and content still appear on my feed as if I never blocked them at all. Like playing whack-a-mole.