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Merge or aggregate cross posted links (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/summit@lemmy.world
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Hi there!

Would it be possible to display cross posts on different instances as a single post?

I just found an article on four of my subscriptions and I wanted to read all the comments so I had find them one by one.

Also it seems to be a problem with lemmy in general, that conversations and likes gets very segmented this way. Would be nice if there would be a way to aggregate.

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Yeah this is a common issue. If the posts are correctly cross-posted, you should see them listed as cross-posts of each other so they are at least easier to find.

Aggregation is possible but there's a lot of different ways to handle it and they all come with trade offs. I haven't seen an approach that I like yet.

Basically this is a difficult problem to solve. I'll add it to the roadmap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    In the piefed web interface, comments of crossposts are added to the post. This has its advantages, but can be potentially confusing, e.g. since a cross-poster can edit the original content, commenters may talk about stuff that's not in the post you're looking at. I like the way summit handles it as an alternative, since the "cross-posted X times" button is easily visible.

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