probably my biggest gripe with Lemmy right now. Feels like I'm just stuck in a loop.

If people would use the lemmy cross posting functionality it would only show up once.

Sort by Top 6 Hours vs Hot or Active

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.

Do you wake up on the same snowy day, every day, with Sonny and Cher's "I got you babe" playing on the clock radio?

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.

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.

My biggest gripe right now is how often everything goes down. About 6 times out of 10 when I go to load anything on lemmy it is down, confirmed on https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/

It's just like browsing r/all on reddit. We did it, Lemmy!

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.

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.

My biggest gripe is that 3/4th of what I write on here ends in an angry argument, usually somehow about politics (in an area of politics I don't even GAF about!)

Seriously considering just hopping to another instance.

I agree, the cross-posting gets annoying. Why do people insist that everyone who is interested in a certain topic needs to participate in their post, so it has to go on every community?

People did not do that on reddit. They just made one post and waited for interaction.

On one hand yes annoying but on the other I'm grateful for their effort in generating post

TIL there's people that still use Yahoo News.

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.

Don't sort by new? Top on a short time frame is probably a better choice

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.

What is worse is that most of those duplicates come from the same poster who are not even cross posting...

I feel like the same thing happened on reddit when you followed multiple similar communities, i.e. unions and iwwunions in this photo.

Seems like we could use federation on the community level

Wef err Voyager has a thing that will block things that you have already looked at.

That might help

@cyu@sh.itjust.works stop cross-posting to the same communities, there's no karma!

I just block the accounts that do this. Make it much nicer to browse 👌

This bugs me too. There are various GitHub issues about grouping communities. As far as I know, no one has gotten to 'em yet.

Give it some time my dude. Devs are working to fix these issues. Eventually we will get there

Yeah, missing active various support communities.

Well maybe if you'd block that furry shit you could at least feel better about it.

Yeah, I made a filter for the canvas and a bunch of other things. That's hella annoying. Feels exactly as Reddit, but now I can filter it

beeper spotted

Top 6 hours or top 12 hours seems to have a better range of options. Try those.

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.