cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/538685
No more duplicate posts
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.
Oh shit is there an app?
Edit: doesn't work too well with Lemmy instances yet
Double edit: apparently it does...?
Not "fully", but testing is underway for Thunder (a FOSS Lemmy app) - https://piefed.social/post/484755.
Why do you say that it doesn't work well with Lemmy instances yet? I've been using piefed.social for ~5 months now, and while I do often see connection issues (maybe once a month?), I likewise experienced first-hand many, Many, MANY other connection issues on several Lemmy instances (StarTrek.website got so bad that I left it for Discuss.Online, which I would say has such issues only exceedingly rarely) plus constantly hear about many issues on other instances (Lemmy.world delays with many other instances especially aussie.zone, programming.dev database corruption, images not showing on Lemmy.cafe, etc.).
The connection issues on PieFed.social in particular I believe may have little to do with PieFed as software in general and rather much to do with PieFed.social in particular being a bleeding edge testing ground for new features. Which I knew and consented to as I made my account (and advise people to keep a Lemmy backup alt, although that's just good advice for any Lemmy instance too), but there are other instances running PieFed that someone can choose if they want greater stability - notably feddit.online as the largest one.
So that's my take, but perhaps you have more details you can add? If you were referring to this old post, that was only referring to someone starting up their own instance using PieFed, and they said themselves that the issue resolved itself in half an hour after posting.
TLDR: you're not exactly wrong per se, but it comes across as cherry picking to imply that Lemmy has no such issues working even with software on both sides being Lemmy. But perhaps I am missing something and I'd love to read more if you have any details you'd like to share:-).
ah damn they arent even developing an ios version so this platform stays irrelevant to me
What do you mean?
First, there's a version of Thunder available on the App Store.
And second, PieFed offers better service in its web browser interface than any Lemmy instance I've seen, and most apps too. Like, Voyager is pretty awesome and a strong contender for best Lemmy app (especially among FOSS options), but it doesn't have categories of communities, hashtag support, user customizable and shareable Feeds (like multi-Reddits), cross posting that shows all comments merged into one view, etc. and a lot of features that it does have can be quite buried within the interface. e.g. to read the rules of a community you have to navigate to it, then click the hamburger menu and choose the side-bar option, whereas on PieFed the rules are displayed directly underneath every single post, so all you have to do is scroll.
Now, mind you, the standard Thunder app won't work yet for PieFed - it's still being tested in a forked version of the code, not committed yet to the main branch of the code. So if that's a deal-breaker for you, then yeah you should stick with Lemmy - FOR NOW!:-D - but there is movement towards supporting that, which i think is fucking awesome 😎. Lemmy is so slow to add new features, while we get them here on PieFed basically weekly at this point.