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@Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works

2026-11-02 16:50 UTC

Is there a way to not see duplicate of the same topic across different communities? Hi everyone! I’m really enjoying the Fediverse through Lemmy and Peertube. Two creators I enjoy and follow on the Fediverse are Dash and Gardiner Bryant (both work on The Bryant Review) as their content is really enjoyable. Sadly they are the target of my post as they shares their content on many different communities that I follow. Today I had 5 times the same topic on RetroDeck (great project too) on my feed on Lemmy (Voyager). It is the same on PieFed (Interstellar). This is really annoying and I haven’t found a way to not show these duplicates. Do you know about one or is it worked on? Also when crossposting, it would be great if everything appeared under on post. Is it feasible? Sorry if it’s easy and I just missed it. In a way I hope it is because it would mean that the Fediverse is festure rich😇 Edit: Added Dash as she was in fact the one who published the article. Also it appears that the issue is only on mobile apps since both the browser of Lemmy and PieFed don’t have it. Edit 2: Using the Progressive Web App of PieFed seems to have solved the issue for me

Replies (8)

  • Lemmy doesn’t really have much in the way of an “algorithm” and it really shows with stuff like this. Mbin can combine posts like that and show comments from all of them, but I think it shows all posts in the main post view, it only combines the comments. I really hope in the future Lemmy combines crossposts into one posts. It’s something an app could do. But I’d love to see it in the default UI so it hopefully encourages all apps to support it too.

    Open ##5512939

  • @anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2026-11-02 17:25

    Here’s how piefed handles it using the browser.

    Open ##5513320

  • @snooggums@piefed.world 2026-11-02 17:22

    Piefed web interface does stack comments if cross posted, so I’m guessing the poster isn’t bothering to cross post if it isn’t showing that way in Intersellar.

    Open ##5513831

  • You’re not alone in this wish, though I’m sure that doesn’t surprise you. I sort of accepted it as just part of how a federated reddit-style forum would work, but if there’s a way to address it, that would be very cool.

    Open ##5515964

  • @Pamasich@kbin.earth 2026-11-03 06:36

    Both Mbin and Piefed solved this.

    Open ##5516353

  • @PerfectDark@lemmy.world 2026-11-02 21:12

    Oh my Gosh. Okay, this is me! One creator I enjoy and follow on the Fediverse is Gardiner Bryant as his content is really enjoyable. First off, thank you so much! Really appreciate you enjoying the articles we put out :) One think I might emphasize here though is that so far as the site goes, Gardiner and I are partners! This is one of my articles though (so I’m to blame for this appearing so often in your feed). In fact I’m 99.99% sure Gardiner doesn’t actually share his articles on Lemmy at all. Sadly he ´s the target of my post as he shares his content on many different communities that I follow. (And I’m ‘she’!) I’m sorry it appears like this. It used to annoy me back when I was regularly on Reddit, when a post was cross-posted to a different community I’d have to follow that link, read their description of the post, then follow the link then go back a few steps to start/join the discussion in that community. Since joining Lemmy and sharing here (it has been a long time!) I just went against that grain and posted in the communities it was relevant to, to give each community a space to chat about it. I had no idea your app was showing it this way, or that how I was doing this was annoying anyone. I’ll just go back to the age old cross-post method instead, going forward. Interesting that your app shows it this way, the one I use seems to do that for me. Sorry to annoy you! It won’t happen going forward :)

    Open ##5516951

  • @Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2026-11-02 17:24

    I think it’s more of an etiquette problem than a feature problem. Posting the same thing to many different communities should be deleted as spam. The multipost in your screenshot is certainly spam. Report that. If you want to post something and don’t know which community fits best, or feel like multiple could fit, then just post your thing to one community. If other people find your post especially interesting, they can crosspost it. To me, cross-posting your own posts is a sign of an overinflated sense of self-importance.

    Open ##5517209

  • @OpenStars@discuss.online 2026-11-02 17:20

    In Lemmy, no way. In Tesseract (yes, that Tesseract!) there was a partial way, but only if the posts happened to come in as part of the same batch when accessing the instance. db0 helpfully made a fork of that, but the community outcry was so enormous that several instances simply dropped support of it entirely rather than switch to using that fork. In PieFed, partially, but only for those sharing the same URL (like these examples probably do?) - so text-only posts do not qualify. And then 3rd-party apps add a whole new dimension to this, by replacing the Lemmy/PieFed/PyLova/Mbin front-end with their own stuff. Note that Voyager provides only rudimentary support for PieFed. Overall, app support for the improvements that PieFed makes over Lemmy is still fairly shitty, sorry to say - note that you can tweak some settings in a web browser (like user blocks & such that are entirely impossible in Lemmy) and then that affects your using the 3rd-party app on a more daily basis, but many of the more advanced features of PieFed/PyLova are still inaccessible from most 3rd-party apps. See this wiki page for more details - like “Crosspost comment merge” is only supported in Interstellar, and some features (like a mod locking a post) is not available from any app, iOS or Android. Lemmy is the same way - reducing such crossposts an extremely often-requested feature, for both software platforms, but so far I think only PieFed accessed via a web browser can do it even partially. Or certain 3rd-party apps (not sure which ones, though I’ve looked at several FLOSS offerings and did not see that - maybe only paid ones do?)

    Open ##5522531