How do I prevent this? Whenever an article gets popular it gets posted to the news community of every single instance so you have to scroll by it several times a day for a week. Is there a “prevent duplicates” option in any of the clients? I’m pretty close to abandoning lemmy honestly. There’s very little content that isn’t “memes for teenagers” or “the same news you saw yesterday”.
It would be cool if crossposted posts would have like a common comment thread or something like this: a crosspost does not copy the post to another community, it creates a “softlink” to the original post. This way, everything done to any of the crossposted post (vote, comment, mark as viewed) would be also applied to other crossposted posts. This way, we would only see a single post instead of 15 posts, and we wouldn’t miss any comment from any of the communities it is crossposted. Obviously, users may wish to just copy the post to another community. What do you think about this? Should we open an issue on github about this?
Anything that would consolidate the posts and threads would be a step in the right direction.
Its not ontly that, on my lemmy server there are multiple people who really take that BuT LeMMy iS a NeWs aGgReGatOr to the next fucking level, to the point that i recognise 4 users who spam teh same article over multiple subs in almost choir unisons. Noone from them is a bot account, they really think they are doing a good service.
You do need content and that’s what they’re doing. Be the change and post a few different articles a day since that’s what you’d like to see.
Carefully curating a subscription list and sticking to the subscriptions filter has worked well for me.
It took a decade to get a decent sub list for me on reddit. Trying to duplicate it on Lemmy doesn’t work because communities are either tiny, duplicates (or moderates poorly so they may as well be duplicates, ie “news” “politics” and “us news” are just the same thing spamming the same articles), or non existent. I’d like a good sub list but it’s a sort of 'where so I even start".
For me I have every news and politics community blocked. I’m not sure how other people use this site, but I thought of all the things I’m interested in seeing and sought out those communities with the communities search and then subscribed to them. Sometimes I’ll check the other filters if I happen to run out of things to read.
I’d be happy if we could just cease having the exact same post show up 2 to 5 times in a single community. I’m seeing the same article linking to the same URL showing up in news, for example, today, 2 days ago, 4 days ago, and 6 days ago.
As far as seeing the dupe across different communities, if you are subscribed to the same community on different instances, then I’d recommend picking one and unsubscribing from the rest. The only way a single community can become the most popular across all the instances is if people leave those other communities and settle on a champion.
What are you using to browse? The default webUI de-duplicates cross-posts, most apps do not yet.
I’ve been using Sync and am planning on trying Lift off.
My favorite is Thunder. But then I’m probably biased considering I’m on the dev team.
Cross-post de-duplication will come eventually, but right now, the dart API library (also used by liftoff) doesn’t have cross post related stuff implemented yet.
Having used both, Sync is better. Liftoff felt light years behind Sync. I will also note as a purely anecdotal, I saw more duplicates on Liftoff than I do now on Sync… I still see a lot of duplicates but not nearly as much as before… Grabbed, I was using Liftoff when the Reddit migration was occurring so that could be the reason I dare more duplication with it.
Don’t use liftoff. It hasn’t been updated in over a month despite being pretty incomplete and still lacks the ability to display some really basic features like spoilers or superscript.
The dude just had twins and just said he’s back updating it. I love liftoff.
This is something that ye olde Usenet got right, by the way. Newsreader software keeps track of which messages you’ve already read, and by default only displays unread messages. That’s slightly easier to do on a system like Usenet (or Twitter) that doesn’t make the distinction between “posts” and “comments” that Lemmy (and Reddit, Facebook, etc.) all do.
I would just block the posting bots, but sometimes those posts get a conversation, so I would miss it.
I just browse by top over the last 12 hours, and that usually avoids it.
I usually browse “top (6 hour)” and if there is breaking news it’s the first several pages it’s awful.
Honestly, I just make sure my default view is “Subscribed”. I can go to ‘All’ if I need to, but it definitely helps.
(Mastodon also works best when limiting to local instance and follows - it would benefit from being able to aggregate a few select local instances in a view, but that’s getting even further off topic!)
Sure I just don’t know how to find communities, I was hoping browsing everything would reveal them to me but “everything top (6hrs)” is very limited in scope.
Try “hot” every now and then. Also, go to another instance, every instance has different places that populate their front page “all.”
Sometimes the same post is posted two different places. I have seen it before.
Support question. Locking.
