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Comments from multiple posts on the same page (piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What do you notice about the comments on this post? https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the [email protected] community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in [email protected] and in [email protected]. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in the timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in one place.

The fragmentation problem is solved.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They are matched by the url of where the post links to. So this only works for posts that have a url, not discussion or image posts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok so exactly how mbin spots cross posts at the moment. But combining the comment sections is a cool idea. Obviously requires your server to be subscribed to the different communities, but still cool 👍

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes we had a lot of inspiration from Mbin for this one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So that's why cross-post won't be available everywhere ? Only certain use case ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yes, url is the only reliable way I could think of to match posts.

For image posts we could use a hash of the image data. But image cross-posts are not common so it doesn't seem urgent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

You could add linking to the same post, eg crossposting, to the criteria.

The urge to switch my server to piefed grows bigger every day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Okay, thank a lot i understand better. Perfect. :)

We use crosspost for english meme however a multi-meme community will solve it. If we regroup them in a topic, we won't need crosspost.

I wanted to use it for Peertube. The only problem i see is that [comment on a crosspost] won't post comment on the peertube video.

And if we comment their video, that would solve peertube problem : they have no comments on their video.

[–] Die4Ever 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

what happens when there's 2 different posts in the same community with the same URL, example:

https://programming.dev/post/8880813

https://programming.dev/post/1721399

(I can't find a more recent example right now)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Those comments get merged into one tree. I think, didn't actually test that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This is or at least was a problem with cross-posts in the same community in Lemmy as well. I think now Lemmy just prevents posts with the same URL to be counted as crossposts when they are in the same community.