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.
My question is more, if I want to comment, how do I decide where it goes? I assume if I’m replying to a specific comment on a post, my reply will just show up there, but if I’m making a top-level comment, can I choose which community it goes in, or perhaps send the same comment to every community? Maybe a comment is appropriate in one community but not another.
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