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This magazine is dedicated to discussions on the federated social networking ecosystem, which includes decentralized and open-source social media platforms. Whether you are a user, developer, or simply interested in the concept of decentralized social media, this is the place for you. Here you can share your knowledge, ask questions, and engage in discussions on topics such as the benefits and challenges of decentralized social media, new and existing federated platforms, and more. From the latest developments and trends to ethical considerations and the future of federated social media, this category covers a wide range of topics related to the Fediverse.

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The fediverse isn't going to work if top pages consist of the same link 10x reposted. (kbin.social)

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Seeing stuff about reddit being posted to 10 different technology boards, plus reddit-themed ones, then reposted further just makes this whole idea a mess. Reposts have to be consolidated into a single comment thread.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is probably a pipe dream, but I’d like to see a feature where any number of articles in a single user’s feed that shares the same exact link just gets grouped together into a “super magazine” or something.

You’d only see either the earliest or most local instance of the link on your feed with an indicator of it’s “super magazine” status.
When you click on a super magazine, you’d see just one link and a federated list of all the articles that included it. Each item in the list would mention who posted it and where it was posted.
Clicking on one of the items in the article list would set which comment section you access. (Or screw it, just federate all the comments into one massive comment section. Toggling an item from the article list would only set which article you’d post a new thread to.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had the same idea and wanted to write a little userscript to achieve this. Sadly Kbin doesn't make it easy to do this, since the actual link is not exposed on the threads page and only accessible after you clicked the link. That makes it super hard to "group by link". I mean you could "fetch" every link for every post but that would put so much unnecessary traffic to the site so that I would rather not do that.