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.
That makes sense. The only thing that might get confusing would be referencing a comment from a different thread.
That's true - it would be useful to have a "copy direct link" option in the menu bar for each comment. @[email protected]
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!:-)