It’s annoying seeing the same headlines numerous times linking to same stuff because it’s cross posted to 3+ instances.
Is there a setting to reduce that or app that handles that well?
It’s annoying seeing the same headlines numerous times linking to same stuff because it’s cross posted to 3+ instances.
Is there a setting to reduce that or app that handles that well?
14 Comments
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 26 pts · 2y
The default webUI de-duplicates cross-posts. I don't know if any apps do.
sbv@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y
They have to be actual cross posts though, don't they? Would that catch the same link spammed across multiple instances and communities?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 2y
There are no "actual" cross posts. Cross-posts on Lemmy are just all posts that have the exact same URL in the URL field.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
So if I post a URL to one community and post a URL of that post in another what's that?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
Not a cross post. It just creates a post that links to the first post.
If you made a third post that also linked to the first post using the same url as the second post, that would be detected and get linked up as a cross-post to the second post.
Actual cross-posts work in both directions. Lemmy detects them as the same thing, both posts link to the other.
Not in the post body, the post body quote and "cross-posted from" text is completely meaningless and just gets added by most clients, adding it doesn't make something a cross-post, and removing it doesn't break the actual cross-post feature, which shows up as a little "cross-posted to: list of communities" thing on the post page.
Thunder has it, Photon does it, and the default webUI does it.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
So does that mean shared comments? Or are they separate? And yeah I'm on eternity hangover from the Reddit days.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
No, the posts are separate. But each post will list every other post so you can visit the other comment sections.
andrew_s@piefed.social · 4 pts · 2y
Yeah - I think anything the UI is doing, it's getting the info from the API, so the poster would've had to use the 'cross-post' feature. There are some apps (e.g. Voyager) that try to wrangle cross-posts by title or URL, but title-matching can give false postives, and URL-matching usually assumes that one link hasn't picked up some cruft, and it can't do much for uploaded images if the poster didn't cross-post (because it'll be 2 different files with different URLs)
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
Different people posting the same URL get their posts linked up as cross posts.
The cross post button just copies the post text into a new post. It doesn't do anything special.
andrew_s@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2y
Oh, right. Sorry. I've gone back and checked the post I was thinking of when I made that comment, and - yeah - it turns out I was misremembering / didn't properly investigate the first time.
Aquila@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y
News to me! Good to know. Will have to see how that’s handled and maybe make pr to my favorite apps
can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
If you find any with it let me know. Not hopeful for Sync.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
There ought to be a way to tag a single post for multiple communities
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I just block the users who do it. Requires a few seconds and then I don't worry about it again.