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 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], 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.
The link that says the time does than. So e.g. your comment that I’m replying to says “10 minutes ago” (for me, right now:-) and resolves to https://piefed.social/post/571276#comment_5293979.
Oh damn, you’re right!
But sometimes on the fediverse there’s a “copy link to post/comment on original instance”, which I sometimes find to be useful. But this is already pretty great!
Oh yes, I really miss how ubiquitous that rainbow Fediverse icon is readily accessible. There’s ways and means to find an original for some things on PieFed - notably a community or user account or an actual post - but it does make things more difficult, e.g. to look at a comment that is on a different instance than the OP or the community that it was submitted to. That would indeed be a useful addition to make it so accessible as it is on Lemmy!:-)