There were also 2 more below that.
And this must be a bot, endless posts by this user, every time the same content on multiple communities.
Daily Reminder, Discussion is okay. Name caling, vitriol and toxic behaviour is against our community rules. Nothing is worth an argument. Discuss away but leave the aggression at the door.
It goes without saying, but any user included in the post should not be harassed. Those found to be following this person will be banned from the community.
Here’s my idea:
It’s a middle ground between completely hiding the duplicates, and letting them as is. Once you click that plus button, it shows the duplicates as full posts, otherwise it leaves them as just one-liners.
There is discussion on going at !news@lemmy.world currently about new rules. Users posting the same story from the same source will be blocked by an automod. I asked about users posting the same story from different sources, and apparently that’s absolutely fine. So expect this problem to get a lot worse before steps have to be taken to make it better :/
The issue is that this sort of rule only works against duplicates inside a community; it does nothing against duplicates across communities, that users may or may not be subscribed to. As such I think that the solution should be on the interface level.
On another, related matter: you replied twice. I think that the server itself should prevent it, as 99% of the time it’s by accident.
Can you put this suggestion on their Github issues tracker? It’s brilliant.
I don’t have a github account, but feel free to share this idea with the devs of the interfaces that you guys use.
I like this one. It conveys all of the pertinent cross posting info in a succinct manner.
Brilliant.
There is discussion on going at !news@lemmy.world currently about new rules. Users posting the same story from the same source will be blocked by an automod. I asked about users posting the same story from different sources, and apparently that’s absolutely fine. So expect this problem to get a lot worse before steps have to be taken to make it better :/
Would love to see something like this happen, good idea!!
This also happened on reddit
It did, but it wasn’t as bad as this. My hope is that as Lemmy matures, this will happen less.
It got lost on the noise of reddit. There’s no way lemmy has more bots, let alone a higher ratio to users.
And it’s entirely up to your instance, the instance I am in has strict bot rules that other instances bots must follow.
The only way it happens less is if lemmy actually does something to merge communities or treat cross posts as a single post.
It won’t.
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But I have to say that’s a plus. I’m on Lemmy.ca and beehaw.org is federated with my instance so I can interact with their communities. I have noticed that discussions on technology@beehaw.org are different from those on technology@lemmy.world. I think that’s the beauty of Fediverse.
It’s like being in a technology club in France and then visiting the technology club in Germany. They may look like the same clubs on the surface, but then you realize that these clubs have different interests and the discussions are different because the worldviews of the two clubs are different.
That’s true for some communities, but for instance !technology@lemmy.world and !technology@lemmy.ml are pretty similar, and tend to have the same content posted by bots.
I can understand why this can be annoying.
Absolutely! While communities might share a name across multiple instances, the content and discussions can be quite different.
The solution is crossposting. If the threads on OP are all by the same user, then they should be crossposting, and mods should be warning them to do so.
It needs to be enabled on more mobile apps then.
I kinda like things this way. The idea is that instance A will have their own users talking about news article Z while instance B will also be talking about it, each with their own perspectives.
Right now it feels like all the discussions are the same because Lemmy and Kbin haven’t had time to evolve and differentiate themselves much just yet. As far as I can tell there’s two types of early adopters populating this ecosystem: Left-leaning tech folks and right-leaning trolls testing the waters to see how much attention they can get. That might just be the communities I subscribed to though 🤷
That would require an inter-instance mod cooperation. Not impossible, but between some instances it seems like the Iron Curtain.
There is a cross post feature, and the resuting post appears to be aware it was cross posted - it would be nice if Lemmy would consolidate those to one post that appears in multiple communities, or at least show you only one of them.
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Why do people insist that there needs to be (for example) /c/politics on every instance? Really, there are only 3 or 4 with any substantial traffic, and there are good reasons to pick one over the others, and they are the same good reasons for them to be separate.
This icon
makes a cross-post, it shoud be used, because it combines them in the feed if both are in the same view (often in New), but it probably should be automated, at least if the link and the title are the same, so it also works if someone doesn’t use the button to cross post.Example:
This way you still are only one click away from each communities comments.
Yes when I see this I downvote all duplicates.
Lemmy should, however, find all federated duplicates and offer you to cross post an existing one when such a case arises. It would fix many of these cases.
Not all clients support this (yet). I only found out about this recently and have to go to the browser to use the crosspost feature.
Yeah, I don’t have that option on jerboa and loading lemmy in a browser on mobile is a terrible experience.
loading lemmy in a browser on mobile is a terrible experience
I’d say it’s not too bad compared to Reddit and other mobile websites these days
There’s no ads, no annoying accept cookies stuff, no log in to continue,… what more could you possibly want?
But did you know about the nearly 50% reduction in Threads users???
If it’s posted three times, does that mean Threads users are down 87.5% or up 50%?
Just block the user?
Yep, it’s one thing if someone is posting a lot to a sub they want to grow. But if someone is posting the same article to like 10 different subs in 2 minutes…
Just block em
I’ve blocked like 5+ different instances of World News and 5+ of Politics, it’s all just bullshit.
It’s the same motherfucker just karma farming
Farming what? There is no karma on lemmy
There is karma on lemmy, available through api
okay but literally no one cares about that
Maybe he just hates Zuckerberg that much haha
not a necessarily a bot, but also there need to be a feature where duplicate posts need to be hidden. inoreader (rss reader) has this is a premium feature. lemmy apps need to draw inspiration from the rss readers, since content is similar. in fact i used to browse inoreader before using a lemmy client app.
What about the comments though? I don’t think hiding duplicates or merging comments will be easy
I think it does that if they’re cross posted, at least someone else said that, but maybe they need to make that easier on more of the mobile clients.
I think “World News” and “Technology” are not quite similar communities. It’s up to the mods of each community to decide whether the content posted is appropriate to that community. One could argue, that an article about Threads is not exactly “World News” though. Also I think that the different variants of e.g. Technology will have a “flavor” of the instance that it’s hosted on. You then get the option to subscribe only to the flavors you like, or if you subscribe to all, then there’s bound to be some duplicates. Maybe some future feature could combine them - it would need to be clear which comment threads are from which instance though.
personally I’m more annoyed that there are several “Technology” communities and several “World News” communities, rather than World News and Technology sharing a similar topic.
Just pick one. They mostly have the same content anyway. I know ideally they should be different (for instance, Beehaw communities are more heavily moderated), but for Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml the difference is so small it’s not worth the hassle.
Maybe some future feature could combine them
Crossposting already exists. That way you have one “main post” and a couple of openly linked crossposts in other communities that redirect to the main post, which makes it easy to filter out “duplicates” as the posts are already bundled in a way. There is no reason to make the same “main post” multiple times.
…and if you meant to combine the comment sections across all communities and instances into a single big comment cluster linked to the main post, then please keep in mind that different communities have different rules. A comment made from a user in Community 1 might be appropiate in Community 1 but inappropiate in Community 2 where the post also appears. How would you moderate this if all comments appeared in both Community 1 and 2 at the same time?
I actually thought of it more as a purely visual combine. So each post still lives in its own instance, and visually you just see them together. Comment threads would live on different instances and the instance mods just mods the community that they own. So it’s a purely Frontend thing.
I understand that, but the “dubious” comment would still appear in the comment thread on both instances then, and that can turn into a problem. How do you deal with it?
Just to make an example: I moderate a community about Breath of the Wild, where content about the sequel Tears of the Kingdom are discouraged so that people who don’t own that game yet won’t have to worry about spoilers. There are also communities about both games, or even just the sequel, where “spoilers” simply aren’t an issue. Now imagine someone makes a post that appears in both communities, and the comment section contains content related to the sequel. How would you deal with it?
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Remove the comments about the sequel because the BotW community doesn’t allow spoilers? That’s a surefire way to piss off anyone subscribed to the TotK community, because they were simply discussing content they’re subscribed to and won’t understand what they did wrong or why their comments keep disappearing.
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Let the comments stay because the TotK community allows them? That’s a surefire way to piss off people subscribed to the BotW sub, as they were promised a spoiler-free browsing experience and now read about stuff they didnt want to read about. You cannot un-see spoilers, so “just deal with it” isn’t an option.
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Make it so that those comments are only displayed in the TotK community but not in the BotW community? That’s what we have right now - separate comment sections for each community. If you merge the comment sections and then retroactively have to sort out which comments are or are not displayed in the other sub, it will be an unneccessary extra workload for the mods as you can barely automate such a thing. And you would have to check every comment again as soon as someone makes a crosspost to a third, fourth, fifth community, as this would add extra rules that would make comments that were formerly comepletely fine suddenly not okay anymore.
Now this is an example where the issue are “just” gameplay spoilers, so it’s not exactly the end of the world. But once this happens to communities with different rulesets about politics, religion, NSFW content, things that are illegal in one country but not the other, and similar highly explosive topics, it will turn into a moderation nightmare to keep the comment section fair for everyone.
The main post would be shared but then in the comment section you can swipe left or right to scroll through the different instances (comment section). Most comment sections don’t have such unique requirements anyways, usually on Reddit I just assume “don’t be an asshole” and on the few occasions where that is not sufficient, I get deleted and the mod notifies me of the error, then I learn. Generally people won’t familiarize themselves with the community rules before posting.
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I think bots are too agressive posting everywhere. example linkbot, it has posted over 20000 posts and its only one month old account.
Eh, it’s a benefit and a drawback. For those of us that don’t use browsers to access lemmy, crossposting is much harder for one thing. Then you’ve got bots and people that don’t even know that crossposting exists at all.
But, the ability to choose which communities you block and thus streamline your feed is too big a benefit to really be infuriating in natural general. Once there’s a built in way to migrate block lists, it’ll be even less infuriating.
But yeah, you gotta block the bots that don’t crosspost correctly, or they’re utter spam machines. If users behave as bots, gotta block them too. It sucks, but it’s miles better than trying to artificially limit communities.
Each instance can have their own rules and mods, I have already encountered power tripping mods on lemmy.world, I can choose other instances with the same threads with different mods.
It’s a UI issue and not really an issue with how Fediverse communities work, if the same link is posted in multiple communities it should ideally show you only one of them in your feed. The user would be able to specify how he wants to discriminate between the same links: most recent one, most active one etc… It shouldn’t be difficult to do at the UI level.
Which one? Most upvotes? Highest total score? Most interacted with (e.g. most comments)? The instance you visit the most? Some combination of these?
That could be a user setting, just like you specify how you want to rank the threads in your feed, you could specify also how to discriminate between threads that are sharing the same link: you could say you want the most recent one for example. Again, this could easily be done at the UI level.
i’d want the comment chains merged
This sounds good in theory, but it’s going to be difficult if the communities have different rules. A comment made on the post in Community 1 might be okay IN Community 1 but innappropiate in Community 2 … how would you deal with this if the comment section was merged and appeared in both communties?
