I’d love it if client-side processing could collapse these posts into one.
This has nothing to do with federation, reddit was a single system and had the exact same issue. It’s simply a result of having communities that overlap in topics, or articles that are relevant for multiple communities.
The key is that each of these posts has a different discussion due to the different community it is in, isn’t that good?
The same thing happened when things would get cross posted to multiple subs. It’s just a thing to deal with.
Well sort of … you have similar communities on different servers. It’s not quite a cross-post - Reddit (🤮) used to warn you when you were submitting the same link in the same subreddit; given the federation Lemmy obviously can’t.
Right, but if the same link was submitted to both News and Worldnews, and you were subbed to both, you’d get the same thing.
For sure - I do get the point you’re making and you’re not wrong. I’m just saying this is a bigger problem in a federated world as there are multiple worldnews/ news communities.
That’s correct.
With duplicate communities on separate instances, or more accurately - communities of similar purpose and content, if you’re browsing by all or new you’ll see all communities your instance is federated with.
That will for sure lead to duplicate links, especially for large events, as they’ll get posted to their local instances and then shared out.
Your best way around that is to view by subscribed, or understand that if you’re subbed to similar communities on different instances, seeing the same links is more likely.
I can for sure see how it can be viewed as a downside. There’s a TON of app work going on right now, so someone will make a fix for it. 😁
That is a different issue than what you are demonstrating here. Here, we see the same link posted in the news community, the world news community, and some other community. This has nothing to do with federation. This is just multiple communities, potentially all on the same instance, having some overlap in subject.
On the other hand, having multiple instances each with their own news community or world news community or whatever is definitely an issue you could have with federation.
Yup agreed.
This always occured on Reddit too though.
Sort of. Here the problem is doubled; the same post doesn’t just go to different communities on the same server but also the same type of community on different servers.
How is that doubled? It’s still just “more than one community exists for a thing.” I don’t see a difference whether or not those communities are on different servers.
On Reddit you’d have a multi-submission to: r/news r/worldnews
Ok the fediverse you end up with: blaahaj/c/news blaahaj/c/worldnews kbin/m/news kbin/m/worldnews Lemmy.ml/c/news Lemmy.ml/c/worldnews
If you subscribe to them all, you end up with tonnes of the same submission on your front page.
Note if you cross post using the built in cross post feature only one will show up in your feed. In this case there is also the fact that beehaw is defederated from lemmy.world
